opinion
Nigeria has become the black sheep of the world oil producing community for her lack of accountability and unproductive use of the oil revenue. Among the OPEC countries, Nigeria is the least enterprising in the management of oil revenue. In Africa, Libya, Angola and Sudan have utilised their oil revenue better than Nigeria.
Abuja - Hassan Saleh is the out- going Director of the Custom, Immigration and Prison Pension Office (CIPO). In this interview, he said that government released a supplementary budget of N8.7 billion to pay the pensioners. He also said that since he assumes office January 17, 2008, pensioners now get paid on or before 25th of every month.
The military intervention of January 1966, which was to a considerable degree a consequence of the persisting political turmoil in Western Nigeria, put an abrupt end to the political activities of the various parties.
Nairobi - Permanent secretary Jacob ole Miaron's justification for the Sh112 million Kogelo Cultural Centre in honour of US President Barack Obama has terribly incensed Cyrill O. Steinar, who says: "I'm so hurt because his remarks demean the hopes of a nation stagnated by terminal gross financial mismanagement. How exactly will this project benefit the people of Kenya and Kogelo, when not even drugs and staff, decent beds, blankets, toilets nor meals are available for patients at local health centres?"
In a recent article where I expressed concern and revulsion at the growing menace of kidnappings and abductions in Kaduna, I, in passing, noted that my sentimental attachment to this cosmopolitan city is rooted in the fact that it is my place of birth. As a child growing up in the city before the unfortunate Nigeria-Biafra war, Kaduna was great in all its ramifications. It was a meeting point of various heterogonous groups, coming from different corners of the country.
Lagos - Nigeria's first President, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, who passed on 13 years ago at the age of 91, would have been 105 years today. Ike Abonyi wonders if his associates still remember this great man
The story of Nigeria, from which ever angle you look at it, cannot be written without references to the contributions of three prominent Nigerians, who have all departed to the world beyond. The trio provided the pillar upon which the nation's polity stood.
When Odumegwu Ojukwu sneezes, the nation catches cold. That is to be expected. General Ojukwu showed his paces in war. He led one of the most famous wars of the late 20th century. General Ojukwu led the people of the former Eastern Nigeria with its majority Igbo population in a war in self-defence when they became targets of a genocidal rage.
Lagos - Chuka Obele was the Secretary of the Action Committee of Nigeria, JACON, then headed by Chief Gani Fawehinmi .He was the ex Publicity Secretary of Nigeria Bar Association,Onitsha branch and then its Vice Chairman.He later became the Acting Chairman and subsequently the Chairman .He was known to be very vocal both during the military and civilian era as depicted in this interview.
analysis
Every human being on God's good earth today is simultaneously endowed with three inter-locking nationalities. The first is the Ethnic Nationality into which one is born and, in most cases, bred with natural distinguishing characteristics and primary communication mode such as language.
The Court of Appeal, sitting in Enugu last week shifted its judgment on Mr Andy Uba's case to Friday November 13,2009, apparently due to the mounting anxiety, criticism and controversy that have trailed the matter now before the appellate Court.
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