As tempers flare across the country over claims that the federal government is planning to sell of its core assets as a means of bailing the country out of recession, the Federal Government has said that no final decision has been taken on the matter.

THE Senate, Tuesday, moved against last week’s recommendation of National Executive Council asking the Federal Government to sell the country’s national assets.

I HAVE just read the wide media coverage regarding the recommendations of the National Economic Council (NEC) as well as the Senate on the ways to reboot the economy out of the current recession.

AMID near conclusion of decision by the federal government to sell some national assets over fiscal stress, more industry analysts have thrown more light on the issues involved.

IN my previous capacity as the Chairman of the Technical Committee of the National Council on Privatisation up until May 2015, I canvassed for the privatisation of the power sector, sale of NITEL and pushed for the sale of the refineries and the passage of the transport reform bills before time ran out on the last administration.

There is no gain saying the fact that the people of Kaduna state have been living in fear following the recent earth tremor that occurred in Qei and Jaba area of Jaba Local Government Area of the state. It also happened in in Kwoi and surrounding villages of Nok, Sanbah and Chori in Jama Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Sunday 11th and Monday 12th September, 2016.

Lagos State, with an estimated population of about 23 million people is one of the richest states in Nigeria. It is one state that has the financial wherewithal to call the bluff of the Federal Government allocation and still survive. And when such a state then strikes oil in its domain and joins the league of oil producing states in the country, it could be said, as former head of state General Yakubu Gowon was reportedly quoted as saying, that the problem of Lagos state is not money but how to spend it.

THE management of Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, has denied the allegation of negligence in the death of one of its patients, Mrs Ngozi Udebu, who was admitted to the hospital three weeks ago, but the widower, Ausbet Udebu, insisted that LUTH’s response clearly showed that his wife was suffocated to death.

CONTINUES FROM III: Avoiding the Mistakes of the “Old” Buharinomics Nigeria desperately needs the moral force/Spartan discipline and leadership of PMB at this time to fight corruption, terrorism, and hopefully begin to reconstruct the values of a people gone astray. On the economy, it is not going to be an easy transition for PMB. Igbos […]

Every team serious about ‘change’ starts with a clear identification of the baseline from which it measures deviations/progress. Nigeria has had 16 uninterrupted years of democracy with the PDP controlling the federal government as well as majority of the states. APC is now in charge at both the centre and majority of the states. A minimum standard for measuring ‘change’ is the extent to which APC government beats the record of the PDP in measurable terms. As the saying goes, if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve/change it!

In 2009, a former Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Power, Hon Godwin Ndudi Elumelu, watched and almost shed tears as his colleagues on the floor of the House tore his report on the power sector to shreds.

WHEN he was sworn-in as the president after his victory at the March 28 election, many Nigerians heaved a sigh of relief that the apparent slide the country had steadily witnessed, especially in the last few years, was at a point of being halted.

Democracy is good for Nigerians; but are Nigerians good for democracy? Ponder that! In the introduction to ‘THE POLITICS BOOK’, the following observations are made: “If everyone could have everything they wanted whenever they wanted, there would be no such thing as politics. Whatever the precise meaning of the complex activity known as politics might be, it is clear that human experience never provides us with everything we want. Instead, we have to compete, struggle, compromise, and, sometimes fight for things.

JOS – Since the advent of the new administration, the expected change in Plateau State is coming slowly.

THE change in policies and style of governance in the last three months of the administration of Governor Udom Gabriel Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom state, especially in the aspect of time keeping and management has been a good departure from the past administration.