ICPC to monitor education projects in Borno
By Ndahi Marama, Maiduguri The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has announced plans to begin monitoring education-related projects across Borno State to promote transparency, accountability and quality service delivery in primary and secondary schools. The ICPC Resident Anti-Corruption Commissioner for Borno and Yobe states, Linus Gubbi, disclosed this on Wednesday shortly […]
Motorists groan as Lagos roads deteriorate
By Albert Akpor LAGOS — MOTORISTS plying major roads in Lagos State are currently doing that in pains as a result of potholes that have taken over the roads. From the Orile-Iganmu end of the Lagos-Badagry express way to Agege Motor road, the Ikotun\Egbe road to Oshodi\Apapa expressway, the story is not different. The situation […]
Anambra 2010: Why we picked Soludo, by PDP
…We will work with him — Metuh, Ulasi By Henry Nwosu Abuja-THE national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said, yesterday, that the party settled for the immediate past governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Professor Chukwuma Soludo, as its flag bearer for the February 6, 2010 governorship election because of his exposure […]
Battle for NASS top job heightens as Arab gives retirement notice
By Emma Aziken Abuja – AFTER months of bitter proxy warfare in the top echelon of the National Assembly bureaucracy, the clerk of the National Assembly, Alhaji Nasir Arab, has given notice of his retirement from the public service. The notice, circulated in the form of the constitution of a handover committee last Thursday, has […]
Why Obama bagged Nobel Peace Prize, by Prof. Akinyemi
By Jide Ajani FORMER external affairs minister and presidential aspirant, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi, has hailed the choice of the American president, Barrack Obama, as this year’s winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Akinyemi made it clear that there is no substitute for leadership by inspiration, an attribute which he said, must have been responsible for […]
Uwais faults Yar’Adua on Electoral Bill
By EMEKA MAMAH KADUNA- FORMER chief justice of the federation and chairman, Electoral Reform Committee (ERC), Justice Mohammed Lawal Uwais, has declared that President Umar Yar’Adua’s Bill for the amendment of the 1999 Constitution now before the National Assembly is at variance with the recommendations of his committee and the White Paper issued by the […]
