IMF, President Tinubu and the transparency challenge
By Moshood Oshunfurewa If we are to reincarnate the late Chief Gani Oyesola Fawehinmi (1938–2009), a legendary Nigerian human rights lawyer, publisher, author, social critic, and Senior Advocate of the Masses (SAM), on the current budget imbroglio, 2% of GDP, and Gbaja/Adeyemi scandal, I might not mistake his line of words as thus: “Let us call […]
Budget delays: A word for the next National Assembly
THE 2011 budget has just been passed by the National Assembly nearly half way into the year. The delay in consideration and passage of the budget has been a source of worry across the country these past months because President Goodluck Jonathan had presented the 2011 Appropriation Bill of N4.2tn to a joint session of the National Assembly as far back as December 14, 2010.
Weep not for Akunyili
SINCE Professor Dora Akunyili, the former Minister of Information and Communications lost her senatorial bid to the former governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chris Ngige, there have been a litany of reactions.
Panacea to further killing of NYSC members
AS the nation basks in the euphoria of the inauguration of President Goodluck Jonathan and states governors, it is mix feeling for the parents of “NYSC 10” – the ten National Youths Service Corps, NYSC, members who were butchered like animals by rioters in some Northern states of the country in the aftermath of the crisis which trailed the April 16, 2011 presidential election.
A transformation agenda for accelerating national development (3)
THE trunk (federal) roads in the South West on which I have travelled frequently since late 2004 are worse today than they were in October/November 2004. Electricity supply is more epileptic in Lagos State and Ondo State today than was the case in late 2004. (Those are the two states where I spent most of my time during the period).
Jonathan’s giant strides in petroleum sector
DECADES before the assumption of office of Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan as President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on May 6, 2010, the country was reputed for perennial scarcity of petroleum products especially petrol.
