NPERA Act: Between economic regulation and NPA’s statutory mandate
By Okey IBEKE The new Ports Economic Regulatory Agency could bring discipline, transparency and competition to Nigeria’s port economy. But unless its powers are carefully separated from those of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), the legislation could open a new front in the country’s long-running problem of overlapping maritime mandates.Okey IBEKE, a maritime expert, x-rays […]
That 800 metres trek to 2019 presidency
The Daura 800metres trek is not a healthy assessment of the president’s fitness to run. It shows the president is actually worried about his health and needs to prove it
Governorship election: Message to Osun voters
In a matter of weeks, voters in Osun will go to the polls to elect a successor to Governor Rauf Aregbesola. With a record-breaking total of 48 governorship candidates from different political parties fighting hard to take over the tenancy of Bola Ige House from its current occupant, September 22, 2018 is expected to be a battle of wits between solemn promises and fairy tales.
Ademola Adeleke and life more abundant for Osun
People’s Democratic Party (PDP), as a party of yesterday, today and tomorrow, conducts its affairs with absolute decorum and uniqueness. It therefore in a hotly contested primary elected as its standard flag-bearer for Osun 2018 Governorship Race, a dynamic and resourceful Senator Ademola Adeleke who is set to take Osun out of economic woods and give her citizens, real value for their lives.
Acting President Osinbajo in a familiar terrain
Professor Yemi Osinbajo has recently been announced as the acting president of Nigeria as President Muhammadu Buhari proceeded on a ten day’ vacation to the United Kingdom. He had on other occasions discharged the same responsibility in very satisfactory ways, and to the admiration of most Nigerians.
Minister Dalung, beyond reproach?
While Nigerians are celebrating that the Federal Government averted FIFA’s suspension of the Nigeria Football Federation, the Minister of Sports, Solomon Dalung, is seemingly upstaging the Presidency on its intervention, insisting that the crisis can only be resolved through the regular courts of Nigeria and his Elders Stakeholders Reconciliation Committee.
