Daily Archives: December 5, 2012
Reps to check fund leakages
The House of Representatives yesterday began the process of amending the Fiscal Responsibility Act with a meeting with 63 Federal Government agencies . Declaring open the session, Speaker, Aminu Tambuwal said it was time to plug the huge leakages in ... Read More »
Niger to spend N83.8bn in 2013
The Niger State Government has projected N83,798,860.00 for both its capital and recurrent expenditure in the 2013 financial year. Governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu, who made the budget presentation before the state House of Assembly yesterday, said the budget was 9.2 ... Read More »
Reps begin moves to amend Fiscal Responsibilty Act
The House of Representatives yesterday kicked off the process of amending the Fiscal Responsibility Act with a meeting with 63 Federal Government agencies. Declaring open the session, House Speaker, Hon Aminu Tambuwal, said the time had come to plug the ... Read More »
MTN introduces new vista into Nollywood
Last month, MTN was one of the sponsors of the cross-border film, Dr. Bello produced by Tony Abulu at the Genesis Deluxe Cinema, Victoria Island, Lagos. The movie also features Hollywood’s top artistes like Isaiah Washington, Vivica A. Fox, Jimmy ... Read More »
Dancing on their fathers’ graves
After all the noise the federal government has made in recent times of how all bad federal roads would be made motorable for Christmas, how real reconstruction would begin in full swing immediately after the festivities and how some N57 ... Read More »
Joyce Banda: A lesson for President Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan and his team have a few good lessons to learn from Joyce Banda, president of fellow African country, Malawi. Last week, this woman who succeeded Mr. Bingu Wa Matharika as president of Malawi earlier in the year, ... Read More »
Jonathan: Damaged by style and awful aides
When President Goodluck Jonathan casts his eyes back over the past 20 months of his government, he must wonder why a man like him who enjoyed so much goodwill and public support when he served as acting president now courts ... Read More »
Failure to share guber mobilization fee: Mob attacks ACN chieftain in Ondo
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) governorship candidate in the October 20 poll in Ondo State, Chief Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN), yesterday averted a free-for-all at his thank-you party in Akure, when a mob descended on an ACN chieftain and former ... Read More »
PIB: FG to privatize refineries in 18months
As part of its strategies to enthrone a new dawn in the nation’s oil and gas sector, the federal government Tuesday indicated its intention to sell all of the nation’s four refineries over the next 18months to set stage for ... Read More »
Declining university education
The university system in Nigeria is in dire straits. This much was confirmed by the report of the Federal Government on Needs Assessment of Nigerian Public Universities. The report underlines the fact that Nigerian universities have been unable to compete ... Read More »
