Yar'Adua's 7-Point Agenda: Impost And Implementations!  
December 25, 2008 | 7 Comments
Nigeria government's 7-Point Agenda alias Seven Major Government Issues accommodates Power and Energy, Food Security and Agriculture, Wealth Creation and Employment, Mass Transportation, Land Reform, Security plus Qualitative and Functional Education. They were defined in many ways, but the most frequently quoted definition is from Our Common Future; which energizes development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations...

Vision 2020 And Seven-Point Agenda: Any Connection? - By Luke Onyekakeyah  
August 19, 2008 | 6 Comments
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...

Infrastructure Concession In Nigeria As Panacea By Uche Ohia  
September 5, 2008 | 4 Comments
Infrastructure concession allows participation of the private sector in financing the construction, development, operation and maintenance of public infrastructure, development project or network for a stated period.

And If The Tribunal Sacks The President? - Sonala Olumhense  
February 16, 2008 | 3 Comments
Soon, the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal will announce its verdict on the election to the presidency last year of Umaru Yar’Adua. If justice is to be served, the court will void that election and call for another. Unless the court is going by different considerations other than the law and the facts, annulling the April 2007 election is a foregone conclusion. Many of us call Yar’Adua the president because he was constitutionally sworn in on May 29, 2007, not because he won...

FG Inaugurates New Economic Management Team Today  
February 1, 2009 | 2 Comments
The Federal Government will today inaugurate the new Economic Management Team, which was recently reconstituted by President Umaru Yar’Adua. Our correspondent gathered that the immediately after the inauguration, the team, chaired by the Minister of Finance, Dr. Mansur Muhtar, would have its first meeting in Abuja.

INTERVIEW With Umaru Yar'Ardua, President... On A Mission Incredible  
June 6, 2009 | 1 Comments
The President enjoys talking. About Nigeria. His faith in his seven-point agenda was so deep the boundless excitement he exudes when explaining it was infectious. Like the teacher that he was, he wanted every point understood beyond his explanation. Facts and figure reeled off his memory. The result was an almost endless answer to some questions. His voice, though gentle, had a bell-like jingle to it that seemed to emphasise his authority on the subject of discussion.

The New Road Map To Economic Reforms  
September 12, 2007 | 1 Comments
You are aware that economic reforms were recently carried out in Nigeria to improve and strengthen our growth potentials. This has resulted in achieving some level of macroeconomic stability and confidence in the economy. We, however, intend to accelerate the economic transformation by sustaining the macroeconomic stability, based on the framework of our key economic reform
values.

SATURDAY ESSAY - Now That Goodluck Jonathan Is Acting President..... (by Bolaji Aluko)  
February 13, 2010
He should pare down Yar'Adua's 7 Point Agenda [Power & Energy, Food Security and Agriculture; Wealth Creation and Employment; Mass Transportation; Land Reform; Security, Qualitative and Functional Education] and Two Special Interests [Niger-Delta and Disadvantaged Groups] and concentrate on Five Areas - Electoral Reform, Security, Power & Fuel, Major-Roads Infrastructure (East-West, North-South routes) and the Niger-Delta.

COMMUNIQUE - 100 "Lawyers Of Conscience" Make Demands Of President Yar'Adua, The FEC And The National Assembly, And Issue Ultimatum  
January 2, 2010
We, the 100-Lawyers of Consciences and the undersigned/listed members of the above named professional organization at the end of our Annual General Meeting held on 30th December, 2009, and after a surgical appraisal of the comatose state of the nation and abysmal performance of the present government in Nigeria in this outgoing year 2009, due to the ill-health and the resultant incapacity of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, hereby make the following resolutions and thus issue this communiqué:-

Federal Govt, ASUU End Rift And Sign Deal  
November 6, 2009
The Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, today signed the re-negotiated 2006 agreement, ending the protracted strike, which has crippled academic activities in the nation's universities in the last four months.