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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
“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”
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.
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.
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...
Greetings. I apologize for the cumbersome heading of this letter. I may be dangerously approaching one and a half decades in the West, I am still very mindful of the importance of titles in Nigeria. I try to respect our sensibilities. I have also taken the liberty to address you as “Chairperson” as opposed to your normal designation as “Chairman” of Transcorp. You see, I live in North America and I don’t want wahala with the feminists. But I digress. I am writing to congratulat...
