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Infrastructure deficit: Challenges and opportunities

Infrastructure deficit: Challenges and opportunities

AS we journey into the last quarter of the year, 2018, it is noteworthy that hopes for significant results from the hypes in the fiscal strategy of ramping-up infrastructural development of Nigeria is dimmed.

God gave me the grace to get rid of ‘Wharf Rats’, restore sanity in ports – Nted

God gave me the grace to get rid of ‘Wharf Rats’, restore sanity in ports – Nted

Comrade Anthony Emmanuel Nted was born on October 1, 1960, the  day Nigeria got her independence from Britain. Comrade Tony, as he is fondly called, is the Chairman of the Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, Advisory Council, and the immediate President-General of the union. In this interview, Nted speaks, among other things, on his sharing of birthday with Nigeria, his growing up and leadership in MWUN

Nigeria @ 58: Stabilising the polity

Nigeria @ 58: Stabilising the polity

THE reality of Nigeria in 2019 is in every respect a far cry from the vision of the country’s founding fathers just before independence in 1960.

People said I was dead after I relocated from Lagos to Igboland – Bright Chimezie

People said I was dead after I relocated from Lagos to Igboland – Bright Chimezie

Highlife maestro, Bright Chimezie, born on October 1, 1960,  the day Nigeria became an independent nation, remains one of the best things to have happened to this country. When many thought he has nothing to offer anymore, having given his best in the past, the Zigima exponent bounced back recently, proving critics wrong and showcasing his undying passion for the cultures of the black man through music.