For Jim Nwobodo, it’s about a good name
For some time now, one Basil Ogbuanu, said to be a Lagos-based businessman, has been up and about dragging the name of Senator Jim Nwobodo and his wife, Patricia. At issue is a piece of land at an estate owned by the former governor of old Anambra State. I hear the matter is already in […]
Dogara’s committees of national unity
SINCE the advent of the APC government at the centre, the issue of national spread in appointments has been a source of concern to many Nigerians, who feel that government appointments have tilted in favour of a section of the country. It was against such background that the announcement of the composition of various committees in the National Assembly was awaited with bated breath.
Still on the Taraba Tribunal judgement
THE recent judgement of the Elections Petitions Tribunal in Abuja declared APC’s Aisha Jummai Alhassan as the duly elected governor of Taraba state and ordered the sitting Governor, PDP’s Architect Darius Ishaku, to vacate office on the grounds that he did not emerge the candidate of the PDP in a properly-conducted primary election.
Innoson as model for job creation
WITH the recent announcement by President Muhammadu Buhari that Nigeria is broke, the need for us as a nation to begin to look inwards in terms of resuscitating the economy and creating jobs for our teeming youths has become more critical. Frankly, the dwindling resources accruing to Nigeria, and indeed other oil producing economies such […]
Nigeria: Political challenges, and the Canadian example
THE generally peaceful conduct of the March 28, 2015 Nigerian presidential election and the gracious acceptance of defeat by the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) strongly signaled that Nigeria may have turned a new page, politically. Other indicators of a new turn for Africa’s largest democratic country and economy are the following firsts in the country’s annals: the widespread innovative use of technology for the process—the use of card readers; the overthrow of the ruling PDP by the General Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) through the ballot box after 16 years of dominance; the election of four none indigenes of a state (Lagos State) as members of the Federal House of Representatives; and the above-average performance of the National Electoral Commission in ways that suggest considerable independence of the electoral umpire.
Addressing fad of huge corporate fines by regulators
As the new reality of cost of doing business in Nigeria begins to dawn on operators in the private sector of the economy and potential foreign investors, it is imperative for the new managers of the economy to take another look at the raft of huge fines doled out by various regulatory authorities to major […]
