The governorship election in Edo state was concluded Wednesday generally without crisis. Officials say that results are being collated as they come in from the local government areas. The election originally scheduled to hold last September 10, was shifted to Wednesday, September 28, following the insistence of the security forces that they could not guarantee…
World Leaders Mourn Shimon Peres
World leaders continue to pour eulogies on the departed former president of Isreal, Shimon Peres, who died Wednesday at the age of 93. He won the Nobel peace award in 1994 along with Yitzhak Rabin, one politician who had been a major competitor and Yasser Arafat, now late but then the leader of Palestinian Liberation…
Budget Padding: Jibrin Suspended
The House of Representatives adopted a resolution to suspend Abdulmumin Jibrin, former chairman of House Committee on appropriation early today. Jibrin who has been having a running battle with his colleagues over the allegation of budget padding. He had accused speaker Dogara and some principal officers of the House of complicity in the fraudulent attempt…
N500bn Housing Fund To Revive Economy
The N500 billion new housing fund approved by the Federal Executive Council last week, will stimulate economic activities and return the economy to the path of growth, Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun has said. A statement issued in Abuja by Festus Akanbi, SA Media to the Minister, quoted Adeosun as saying a mass housing scheme that…
Education In The Age Of Neoliberalism: Local And External Contexts
By Sylvester Odion Akhaine “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” –Nelson Mandela “Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the…
Nigerians Must Fight For Freedom
Oladipupo Fashina, former president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU says Nigerians must take up the initiative to fight for freedom. In his keynote address at this year’s Gani Fawehinmi Annual Scholarship Awards. The man who led a radical campaign for university autonomy and quality education for many years said to leave the…
Presidential Boost to Obaseki’s Campaign
For the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the September 10, 2016 governorship election in Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, there could have been no greater endorsement for his governorship ambition than the raising of his hand in the presence of a mammoth party faithful by the President, Muhammadu Buhari. The occasion was the…
Nwankwo Disowns IPOB
Arthur Nwankwo, chancellor of the Eastern Mandate Union, EMU, a pressure group that has campaigned for restructuring in Nigeria, has washed his hands off a supposed negotiation with the federal government. Nwankwo, in a release, said he had nothing to do with a breakaway faction of the Independent Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, which claims to…
Oshiomole Cannot Judge Me, – Osagie Ize-Iyamu
Osagie Ize-Iyamu, a pastor-politician and governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the September 10, governorship election in Edo State is a hard fighter, resilient and resolute in the pursuit of his ambition. Ize-Iyamu’s major albatross in his quest to occupy Denis Osadebey Avenue, the seat of government in Edo State come November 12, 2016, is his…
NERFUND Gets New MD
The Federal Ministry of Finance has announced the appointment of Dr. Ezekiel Oseni as the acting Managing Director of the National Economic Reconstruction Fund, NERFUND. The appointment, which takes immediate effect according to a statement issued by the office of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, was made under a management agreement between the ministry…
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