Nigeria, Germany Sign 6,500mgw Supply Agreement; FG In Fresh Power Deal With Siemens, Others  
August 20, 2008
The Federal Government has signed a memorandum of understanding with Germany on power supply as a way of boosting the power situation of the country. The agreement, tagged Nigeria-German Energy Partnership Memorandum of Understanding, empowers Germany to execute various power supply projects in different parts of Nigeria.

President Yar’Adua’s Mum Robbed  
August 19, 2008
Burglars from hell took caution to the wind before dawn on Monday as they broke into the family house of President Yar’Adua in Katsina and robbed his ageing mother, Hajiya Dada Yar’Adua in her bedroom.

Vision 2020 And Seven-Point Agenda: Any Connection? - By Luke Onyekakeyah  
August 19, 2008
I CONSIDER it appropriate at this juncture to take a closer look at the two key buzzwords that have in recent times been ingrained in the polity in order to ascertain whether or not there is any connection between the two. The link or otherwise between the two would give insight into whether or not the Yar'Adua administration would be able to achieve these grand agendas. The two fashionable catchphrases are "Vision 2020" on one hand and the "Seven-Point Agenda" on the...

The Mirage Of Palm Oil Availability - By Matthew Eshalomi  
August 19, 2008
I HAVE had to comment on a recent write up in The Guardian Sunday July 27, 2007 on page 78 on Vegetable and Edible Oil Producers of Nigeria (VEOPAN) imploring the government to maintain a ban on edible oil importation.

Kingibe, Ministers To Earn More Than Yar’Adua, VP  
August 19, 2008
Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and ministers are to earn more than the President and his deputy, courtesy of the new package proposed by the Revenue Commission.

Memo To The Nigerian Street  
August 19, 2008
“Listen to Nigerian leaders and you will frequently hear the phrase, “this great country of ours.� Nigeria is not a great country. It is one of the most disorderly nations in the world. It is one of the most corrupt, insensitive, inefficient places under the sun. It is one of the most expensive countries and one of those that give least value for money. It is dirty, callous, noisy, ostentatious, dishonest, and vulgar. In short, it is among the most unpleasant places on earth�

The Marriage Of Art And Peace In Nigeria: Infants, Stories And Mass Movements  
August 18, 2008
Being Text of a paper presented by Chief Clarius Ugwuoha in 2006 at the IPRA Int’l Conference in Calgary

Remittances From Nigerians Abroad Hit $17.9 Billion  
August 18, 2008
Remittances from Nigerians abroad almost doubled last year, rising to $17.9 billion from $10.5 billion in 2006, the Minister of Finance, Dr. Shamsuddeen Usman, said in Lagos.

Utilising Science And Tech To Drive Vision 2020 - By Grace Ekpiwhre  
August 18, 2008
This government is clearly charting the path we should all follow through the development agenda tagged Vision 20/2020, which is specifically designed to leapfrog our country into the rank of the twenty biggest economies in the world by year 2020. But to achieve this, we must all be reminded that developing countries that successfully transited from the backwaters to the industrial delight necessarily attached great importance to science and technology.

Obasanjo, Cronies: The Comedy Of Errors  
August 16, 2008
Barely a year ago, the question: “Who is after OBJ, Iyabo or Bode George?� would have appeared like a deliberate inversion of fact. The castaways of OBJ’s economic wreckage are fed daily to increasingly sordid and sleazy deals of that era and the equally fevered onslaught against the perpetrators, in a way that suggests, in its interpolated sense, a kind of witch-hunt. Obasanjo and his cronies, from facts emerging, appeared to have inserted, in our...