About 110 houses have been washed away in Baure and Garki villages in Baure Local Government Area of Katsina State following a heavy down pour. The incident, which occurred on Friday, started around 6 am and lasted for about five hours. The flood was blamed on blocked drainages, even as most of the houses affected were on […]
CRITICS clamouring for the withdrawal of the Joint Task Force [JTF] from the Niger Delta lack deep thinking on the strategic position of the South-South to the revenue base of Nigeria, spokesman of the Force, Lt. Col. Timothy Antigha, has disclosed. He contended that “the mandate of the force exceeds military operations against act of […]
GLOBAL companies face more corruption related prosecutions due to their corrupt dealings with Nigerian officials and have paid a total of three billion, two hundred million dollars [$3.2b] fine between 2010 and 2011 to the United States government and the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), officials of the American Department of Justice has disclosed. […]
From 2003, Nigeria lost billions of dollars to multi-national oil companies from Asian countries under the oil-for-infrastructure agreements, an investigative report of Chatham House recently released in the United Kingdom has revealed. Successive Nigerian governments had entered into oil-for-infrastructure agreements with oil companies from India, South-Korea and China, but the projects were never executed even though […]
The current face-off between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and former military President Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida has been generating mixed feelings among eminent leaders. Where some of them see it as a ripe time for the government of the day to launch into the much demanded probe of failed past administrations of this country, others brush […]
NATIONAL Youth Service Corps, NYSC, has opened 13 bids for the execution of its 2011 capital projects across NYSC orientation camps in the country. Items bidded for are: Tents, Water-tankers, Generators and Toyota Hillux van. Speaking during the opening of tenders in Abuja, the Director General of NYSC, Brig-General Maharazu Tsiga told the contractors that […]
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday approved the appointment of African richest man and Chairman of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote and four others into the Federal Government’s Economic Management Team, which will be chaired by the coordinator of EMT and Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. A statement by Presidential Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr […]
The embattled President of the Court of Appeal, PCA, Justice Isa Ayo Salami, yesterday, approached a Federal High Court in Abuja for an order setting aside his suspension by the National Judicial Council, NJC. The PCA who described his removal from office as a ‘judicial joke’, contended that the council was bereft of the statutory […]
By Kenneth Uwadi, Imo State, Nigeria – August 19, 2011– It was night, 8pm to be precise, when I entered a bar in Owerri for a drink. The damned bar’s sloppy wet due to the heavy down pour earlier. The rain soaked part of my shirt; my sleeves the more. It’s an entertainment bar.Some men […]
By Prince Charles Dickson – Jos, Nigeria – August 19, 2011 – An Ibo saying translated…means, one treats an illness; one does not treat death. It simply implies that if one neglects an illness until death intervenes, the treatment comes too late. All over the world today, it seems every nation is battling one form […]
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