Born to the family of Chief Moro Agbamu of Okwungaga, Ugbokolo District of Okpokwu Local Government Area of Benue State, Comrade Abba Moro as he is fondly called, began his formal education at LGEA Special Primary School, Odessassa, Ugbokolo where he finished from in 1969 before proceeding in the same year to Emmanuel Secondary School,…
Ministry of Interior – Pursuing the Mandate of Internal Security and Citizenship Integrity
The clearly spelt-out mandate of the Federal Ministry of Interior is to promote good governance by maintaining security within the borders of the country and ensuring citizenship integrity. For a country like Nigeria generally regarded as the most populous black nation on earth with a population of over 167 million people, over 250 ethnic nationalities…
New Initiatives Of FMBN In Housing Finance And Development
The Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) was established in 1956, then known as the Nigerian Building Society, NBS, a joint venture of the Commonwealth Development Corporation and the Federal and Eastern governments of Nigeria. It operated to fund individual mortgage loans from savings mobilized from the public. Following the introduction of the Indigenization…
Score Card of President Jonathan’s Transformation Agenda
By May 29, 2014, President Goodluck Jonathan would be three years old in office, which means the administration has barely a year to go in this term. On assumption of office, President Jonathan unveiled his Transformation Agenda. The Agenda, a comprehensive layout of Mr President’s goals and targets will invariably be the basic parameter by…
FG Probes CCTV Camera Contracts
The federal government has launched investigation into the CCTV camera project in Abuja. Sources say this was one of the issues that cropped up at the security meetings held following the latest bombings in the federal capital. The source said President Goodluck Jonathan had expressed concern that no report had been given to him on…
Chibok: Women Protest Abduction of Girls
Obiageli Ezekwesili, former Minister of Education and Titi Atiku, wife of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, defiled the heavy down pour in Abuja on Wednesday April 30 to join hundreds of mothers who were protesting the failure of the security agencies to rescue 234 female students of Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State more…
Nigeria should take Proactive Measures Against Cyber Terrorism – FUTA Don
A University Don has warned of dire consequences if the Nigerian government and security agencies fail to put proactive measures in place to checkmate what he described as budding cyber terrorism in the country. Boniface Kayode Alese, an associate professor of Computer Science, stated this while delivering the 2013/2014 First Bank Professorial chair in computer…
A Profile of Professor Chinedu O. Nebo
A Profile of Professor Chinedu O. Nebo, Ph.D, OON, NPOM Professor Chinedu Nebo’s teachers in the primary and secondary schools must have probably known that he would be an academic or a scholar later in life, judging by the scores or grades he recorded at every examination. Nebo passed the First School Leaving Certificate Examination…
More Electricity for Nigerians
“I will never fail in this assignment.” – Professor Chinedu Nebo, Hon. Minister of Power It is one year and two months you assumed duty as the Honourable Minister of Power. More Electricity for Nigerians: “I will never fail in this assignment.” – Professor Chinedu Nebo, Hon. Minister of Power It is one year…