Last week Thursday, Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi voiced discontent over what he considered manipulation of revenue of oil-bearing states, and pleaded with the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) to perform its duties according to law, good conscience and reason.
Stopping short of accusing RMAFC of compromising its expected impartiality and integrity in [...]
August 11, 2010 | Posted in
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Some months ago, it was widely reported that a good number of foreign businesses operating in Ghana had been shut down following the strict implementation of that country’s Investment Protection Act (IPA) of 1994.
Most disturbing was the report that the bulk of the affected businesses belong to Nigerians. Even Nigeria’s foremost indigenous telecommunications giant, Globacom, [...]
August 9, 2010 | Posted in
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Roads are very crucial to the development of any community, especially in a largely agrarian country like Nigeria where a large percentage of the populace live on various levels of agricultural practice in the rural areas. Roads are, therefore, a major determinant of how much of the agricultural produce that could be moved for sale [...]
July 26, 2010 | Posted in
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Disturbed by the apparent inability of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) to effectively evacuate power from its gas turbines and distribute same to end users, Rivers State Governor, Rt. Hon Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi recently threatened to shut such under-utilised plants to avoid further waste.
The governor’s frustration was borne out of the state’s desire [...]
July 23, 2010 | Posted in
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The National Assembly recently directed that all the condemned prisoners numbering about 870 still languishing in Nigerian prisons should be executed without much delay. That position on a touchy global issue borders principally on the need to obey laws of the land and the fact that the affected death row inmates have remained in solitary [...]
July 21, 2010 | Posted in
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The Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, recently raised an alarm that Nigeria ranked first among the most sickle cell anaemia endemic countries on the African continent, with an annual infant deaths of 100,000 representing eight per cent infant mortality in the country.
Quoting from a recent World Health Organisation (WHO) report, the minister also revealed [...]
July 19, 2010 | Posted in
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When the Federal Ministry of Education reported recently that 16 million children were not enrolled in Schools, and that only 500,000 out of 40 million illiterate adults were registered for mass literacy programmes nationwide, Nigerians were not impressed.
But when, last week, upon her assessment of the Universal Basic Education (UBE) programmes, the Minister of Education, [...]
July 9, 2010 | Posted in
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The Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu recently raised an alarm that Nigeria ranked first among the most sickle cell anaemia endemic countries on the African continent, with an annual infant deaths of 100,000 representing eight per cent infant mortality in the country.
Quoting from a recent World Health Organisation (WHO) report, the minister also revealed [...]
July 6, 2010 | Posted in
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Penultimate Tuesday, the Lower Chamber of the National Assembly, House of Representatives was turned into a battle ground of sorts as members engaged themselves in a free-for-all fight. The fracas, which saw some honourable members’ garments torn into shreds and beamed on national television to the shock and utter embarrassment of millions of Nigerians and [...]
July 5, 2010 | Posted in
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The recent clash of views in the lower chamber of the National Assembly over the demand of some members for an upward review of their quarterly allowances has provoked yet another public outcry on the seeming insensitivity of the lawmakers to the plight of the ordinary Nigerians.
According to media reports, the legislators want their allowances [...]
June 28, 2010 | Posted in
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