The Minister of Power, Professor Chinedu Nebo has applauded the successes already recorded in the power sector transformation agenda. Professor Nebo who spoke with a cross section of the Nigerian media recently in Abuja said that slow and steady progress has been recorded especially in government’s efforts to boost power supply in some parts of the country.

When the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, embarked on a national strike on July 1, 2013 due to the refusal of Federal Government to implement the 2009 agreement it signed with the union which had several components, including adequate funding of education sector, Nigerians feared another long winter for their children forced to return home.

In spite of the several negotiations between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and the subsequent release of N130 billion for infrastructural development and allowances to the striking lecturers, ASUU, said the stike would continue until the 2009 Agreement entered into by both parties is fully implemented.

It’s been two months since the Academic Staff Union of Universities embarked on a nationwide indefinite strike. This was as a result of the inability of the Federal Government to implement some of the issues contained in a 2009 agreement it had with ASUU. Recently Saturday Vanguard spoke with parents whose children are affected as they begged the government to reach a compromise with ASUU .

REGIONALLY and globally, the petroleum market is becoming increasingly unkind to Nigeria. At the national level, of course, we have problems too – bunkering, or theft, as well as a lack of transparency both create commercial difficulties for companies operating in the Niger Delta and off the country’s southern coast.