Shade Omoniyi: How a governor’s right choice changed Kwara’s revenue story
How the right leadership, the right appointment and the right reforms turned revenue administration into an engine of development By Ademola Adedoyin Today...
Man, music and life expectancy
By Kayode Ojewale Death is not the opposite of life but a part of it — Haruki Murakami, Japanese novelist. In Nigeria today, mortality rate is not massively reducing as expected even with the advent of technology and other inventions that make life easier to live. The average lifespan in our country gives an […]
That life be so cheap
By Owei Lakemfa, Life is very cheap in the country. My point of reference is not the case of Ropvil Daciya, an undergraduate of the University of Maiduguri, and hostage of the terrorist Boko Haram whose execution was carried out by a twelve-year old boy. Young Daciya was executed on his way to school, the […]
2020: DisCOs and better service delivery
By Gabriel Ikese THE question of service delivery in the Nigerian power sector is a highly sensitive one and probably the most discussed in Nigeria today after politics and security. The distribution sector of the electricity value chain is constantly in the news embroiled in one service delivery controversy or the other. Some of the […]
Junaid Mohammed’s echo chamber and the Amotekun civil war
Recently, the firebrand ex Second Republic member of the House of Representatives, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, warned or threatened that Nigeria may experience another civil war if the Western Nigeria Security Network, better known as Amotekun, is allowed to go ahead.
Delta out with one-stop public service secretariat
Within three months of the creation of Delta in 1991, the first secretariat complex popularly referred to as ‘Works’ was hurriedly put in place by the then military administrator, Group Captain Luke Ochulor, in Asaba, the capital. The complex barely accommodated the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and the army of public servants relocated from Benin City, the capital of defunct Bendel State, where Delta was carved out from.
Many public offices, including the Government House and Deputy Governor’s quarters, operated in rented apartments, but successive governments headed by late Felix Ibru, Group Captain Ibrahim Kefas (retd), Brig-Gen. Bassey Asuquo (retd), late Col. John Dungs, Navy Captain Walter Feghabor (retd), Chief James Ibori and Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, who all administered the state between 1994 and 2015, saw to the construction of some office buildings in Asaba to complement the State Secretariat now known as Olorogun Felix Ibru Secretariat, built by the Federal Government to support the new state.
