Xenophobic: Oyo receives 70 indigenes evacuated from S’Africa, begins reintegration
The Oyo State Government has received 70 indigenes evacuated from South Africa following xenophobic attacks targeting foreigners in the country and commenced the process of reintegrating them into their communities.
‘How to avert another global meltdown’
Unless the political risk of unbridled financial/economical globalisation and the steady decline in the role of governments in the global arena were checked, the world may experience another global financial meltdown, as was witnessed in 2008, a new book: Minimizing ‘Political Risk’ for Sustainable Investment: Global Paradigm Shifts and Nigeria’s Niger Delta,†has warned.
Don’t betray Nigerians, cleric tells Jonathan
RENOWNED pentecostal cleric and Presiding Bishop of Amazing Love Ministries, Enugu, Rev. Amaechi Nwachukwu, has advised President Goodluck Jonathan not to betray the towering confidence Nigerians have reposed in his administration, especially ahead of the 2011 general elections.
2011: Group backs Jonathan
A body known as Goodluck Solidarity Movement, GSM, has dismissed the clamour by some prominent people from the North for the continuation of zoning of the presidency, saying they are speaking for themselves and not the whole Northern part of the country.
2011: Commissioner, 3 Gov Gaidam’s aides resign
Yobe State Commissioner for Rural Integrated Development, Mr Mohammed Saleh and three Special Advisers to Governor Ibrahim Gaidam have resigned from the Cabinet.
No pay increases without review of pensioners’ benefits, says FG
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, Tuesday, said the government would not raise salaries of civil servants in the country without a corresponding review of the pension benefits of retired military and other pensioners as stipulated in the constitution.
