Flood: 29 states, FCT, 107 LGAs, 631 communities at risk this month — FG
The Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency, NiHSA, predicted yesterday, that 29 states and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, as well as 107 local government areas and 631 communities were at risk of flooding between now and mid September.
N150bn Needed For Competition: Abuja ancestral villages bow to urbanization
The optimism of Abuja indigenes to have their villages transformed and integrated into the Abuja Master Plan under an urban renewal programme is fast turning into a nightmare. Disagreements over compensation and resettlement of the indigenes by the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) have resulted in a number of protests and court cases.
In defence of Abuja women
Reprieve may be on the way for Abuja women who have been at the receiving end of alleged harassment by men of the Nigeria Police and Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB), as a non-governmental organisation, Lawyers Alert Association, has dragged the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, the Inspector General of Police and the Attorney General of the Federation, among others, to court to enforce the fundamental human rights of women in the FCT.
How ex-minister Gbagi made it as first African in Rotary Arch-Klumph
FOR anybody who is a member of Rotary Club, a major national and international service club, with international world headquarters in Evanston, Illinois, USA, the pinnacle is becoming a member of the Arch C Klumph Society.
SUBSIDY FRAUD INCORPORATED (II): Circus moves to the courts
Last week, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, arraigned some directors of some firms allegedly involved in the allegedly wrong collection of claims. This week’s report will show that whereas an investigation into such a monumental fraud was indeed desirable, the Federal Government of Nigeria may have embarked on a fool’s errand in its approach by going through the needless process of instituting committees to, in the words of the redoubtable Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke, SAN, fine-tune what the EFCC is doing. “It is complementary to the EFCC report as well as that of the House of Representatives”. As the trial continues, the magnifying spectre of scandals within a scandal is bound to grow.
Trinidad And Tobago: Basking in the majesty and allure of nature
The date was June 20, 2012. The mission was this year’s congress of International Press Institute, IPI, holding in the Caribbean dual-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. Although this was neither my first visit to the Caribbean nor South America, the mere thought of the trip still set my adrenaline surging. It quickened my pulse. It raised my expectations to fever pitch.
