JANUARY 25, 2013 BY CHIDO ONUMAH (CONUMAH@HOTMAIL.COM) 4 COMMENTS Chido Onumah | credits: The media buzz last week was President Goodluck Jonathan’s “unscheduled” visit to the Police College, Ikeja, Lagos. As a public relations stunt, it was a huge success. But beyond the razzmatazz, TV cameras and punditry lies the need for a deep national […]
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria on Thursday commenced the destruction of 65 airplanes abandoned at various airports across the country by domestic airlines. The action followed the expiration of the one-week ultimatum given by the agency to owners of the abandoned aircraft to evacuate them from the airports. The destruction exercise started at the […]
President Goodluck Jonathan’s experience at the Police College, Ikeja should not be unexpected in a system filled with lies, unrealistic and unimplementable budget of N296.757m in 2012 for the whole 10 Police Colleges. I wondered what an average of N30m could do for maintenance of facilities including payment of trainees’ allowances of each Police College […]
A former Vice President (Africa), World Bank, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, has said the Umaru Yar’Adua and President Goodluck Jonathan administrations need to tell Nigerians how they spent the $45bn left in the foreign reserves account and $22bn in the Excess Crude Account by the former President Olusegun Obasanjo administration. Ezekwesili, who was a former Minister […]
The Senate’s Public Accounts Committee has directed the Nigerian Police authorities to submit to it the records of appropriation and implementation of the budgets on the Nigerian Police College in the last five years. Chairman of the committee, Senator Ahmed Lawan, told our correspondent in a telephone interview on Thursday, that the committee would commence […]
The Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria has said contrary to reports, it has not pulled out of the Christian Association of Nigeria. According to the CSN, the source of the alleged “pull out must have spoken of his opinion.” The Communications Director of CSN, Rev. Fr. Ralph Madu, in an interview with The PUNCH on Thursday, […]
MUTUAL suspicion between loyalists of President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party’s national chairman, Bamanga Tukur, and those of the governors is delaying the convening of the party’s National Executive Council meeting, The PUNCH has found out. The party’s National Working Committee has been unable to agree on when to hold the NEC meeting […]
MUTUAL suspicion between loyalists of President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party’s national chairman, Bamanga Tukur, and those of the governors is delaying the convening of the party’s National Executive Council meeting, The PUNCH has found out. The party’s National Working Committee has been unable to agree on when to hold the NEC meeting […]
The Coalition of Northern Politicians, Academics, Professionals and Businessmen and an opposition party on Thursday took a swipe at President Goodluck Jonathan over his comment that Boko Haram was not caused by poverty or misrule. Jonathan had in an interview with the Cable News Network’s Christiane Amanpour, Wednesday night, said, “The sect was not born […]
Congress for Progressive Change has lampooned the Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, for criticising Maj.-Gen Muhammadu Buhari over his comments on the attack on the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayaro. The party said its attention was drawn to comments credited to the Presidential aide, who they alleged cast […]
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