ON October, 4, 2011, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan sent the 2012-2015 medium-term Fiscal Framework (MTFF) and the 2012 Fiscal Strategy paper (FSP) to the Nigerian senate and intimated his plans to begin withdrawal of fuel subsidy with effect from the 2012 fiscal year-January 2012.

…AS an exception, it is not favoured but simply accomodated. However, before it can be accomodated, INEC must show by cogent and verifiable reasons why staggered elections must be accommodated.

THE reason the tribunal cited section 27 of the electoral Act 2010 in its judgment is simply because the intendment of the National Assembly in passing this section of the Act was necessary in the determination of the petition filed by PDP.

Enabling legislation on bonds The Debt Management Office (Establishment) Act 2004 (CAP D12, LFN), the Pension Reform Act 2004 and the Fiscal Responsibility Act 2008 are the principal legislations that provide support to the Nigerian bond market.

“The newest member of the UN family was born today,” Mr. Ban told the Assembly after it passed the resolution setting up the new UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. “This is truly a watershed day,” he declared.

A FEW weeks ago, the relative cordiality that has existed between the Federal and State governments was punctured and the citizens’ attention drawn, albeit temporarily away from the robust debates that has been generated over the future of the country.

THE interpretation given to section 26 of the electoral Act 2010 (As amended) by the Imo guber tribunal has given judicial endorsement of staggerred elections by INEC. It is therefore, a recipe for electioneering disaster.

THE deregulation in the sector has created more jobs, increased government revenue and opened fresh vistas for profits. Like the telecommunication and aviation sectors, the cement sector has engendered positive multiplier effects on the economy.

As stocks are taken on 2011, the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, is one man who would certainly look back at the year with an understandable sense of fulfilment for acclaimed milestones and a political year well spent.

True confessions of the self styled Comrade Governor of Edo State, Mr Adams Aliu Oshiomhole recently that the demised President, Umaru Musa Yat’Adua calls for a lot of questioning and reasoning.