There is nothing about royalty for the people of the Niger Delta. There is nothing about the cleaning up of the environment which is more damaging to the communities. There is nothing about any condition of how Niger Delta states and communities can have a stake in the industry, for example, a provision that will allow them preference to some oil blocs which they can exploit so that they can have significant practice in the industry.

Speaking during the official signing of the agreement, Kanu, Coordinator of the KHF, said the partnership arrangement had been in incubating for over year but got a break through in May 2009 in England when both parties finally agreed to collaborate in a partnership arrangement where 50 heart patients from the stable of the KHF will receive free open heart surgery every year in the Salam Center for Cardiac Surgery, at the Blue Nile area of Khartoum, Sudan.

Bola Ahmed Tinubu and MKO came to me here in this house and MKO said `they are my friends’. I told them that the ministry that suited me was ministry of works and housing and asked MKO that ‘these your soldier friends, when would they go?’ He said it won’t be long but Tinubu said it might be 12 months, it might be 15 months. I then said I would think about it.

NOBODY can write off the optimism that trailed Yar’Adua’s inaugural speech. It was inspirational, even as it raised the expectations of a people, used to mis- governance. Since then, promises made, are yet to translate to overwhelming prosperity. Not even the pledged generational shift, has been noticed in federal appointments-a reason why many have blamed […]

On Wednesday, July 8, the Lagos State governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) held an interactive session with print and electronic media executives in Lagos. The forum afforded the governor an opportunity to respond to a wide range of issues raised by the journalists on the mega city challenges confronting the State. Below are excerpts: OKADA […]