Category: Press Release
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Nigeria Retrogressing In Fight Against Corruption, Serap, Others Tell Buhari
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), stakeholders and Nigerians have scored President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration low on the fight against corruption. SERAP’s Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare made known his rating of Nigeria’s anti-corruption known during a special radio town hall meeting against corruption, organized by Progressive Impact Organization for Community Development, PRIMORG, with the…
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#TNGPIBConfab: Ministers, Ex-Govs other prominent Nigerians meet today to brainstorm on PIB
Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege; Transportation Minister/former governor of Rivers State, HE, Rotimi Amaechi; Hon. Minister of State, Petroleum Resources and ex-governor, Bayelsa State, HE, Chief Timipre Sylva; Hon Minister of State, Labour and Productivity, Chief Festus Keyamo, SAN; former Governor, Edo State, Ex-Senator and Professor of Law, HE, Prof. Oserheimen Osunbor are among the…
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Registration for #TNGPIBConfab opens as Prof. Darah, Sen. Abe others join discussants
Registration is now open (Register here) for the one-day colloquium, ‘PIB: finally getting it right and breaking the 20-year hiatus’, to be held on March 10, 2021, (Time: 11am-2pm). Joining the list of discussants at the virtual event to dialogue with key leaders in the oil sector on pathways to speedy passage of the Petroleum…
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Attack on National Pilot, politically motivated-Management
The management of the National Pilot newspaper, owned by Senator Bukola Saraki, has described the attack on the newspaper office as politically motivated. In a statement by the management of the newspaper, signed by its editor-in-chief, Alhaji Billy Adedamola, he said that “if the motive of the attackers was to silence, cow and intimidate us…
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Corona watch: Current situation of Coronavirus in UAE – Julius Nwosu
By Julius Nwosu (UAE) The United Arab Emirates is a small country, but it’s packed with exciting places for visitors to check out and fall in love with. From modern buildings to cultural hot-spots, there’s a little bit of everything. This what makes the UAE one of the hottest tourist destinations in the world. Just…
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CORONA WATCH 21: ‘We Want To Breathe And Live Again… ‘ – Catherine Onyemize
Catherine Onyemize, Maryland, U.S.A I see COVID-19, the sudden whirlwind that stormed our world as a plague. Sadly, the world can never be the same. Unfortunately, many leaders have turned this to politics: making up numbers of victims, survivors and deaths. So life-threatening is this plague that the mere sound of its name or a…
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Corona Watch 20: Chance to start all over again – David Anaka
By David Ananaka To those who have lost loved ones to Corona virus, take heart and be comforted. The sun will rise and you will smile again. To those presently infected with COVID-19, have faith, you will recover. To medical practitioners at the front-line of this war against Corona virus, thank you for your good…
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Corona watch 19: I haven’t seen Lagos this clean – Chisom Ejim
Covid-19 pandemic has had and continues to have its toll on many of us. Not that we contracted the disease but in the prevention bid, our lifestyles have been disrupted, both publicly and privately. One area of our lives affected is movement. How funny that though movement is the first characteristic of living things, yet…
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CORONA WATCH 17: Life has gotten pretty tough – Chikaome Imediegwu
Chikaome Imediegwu (Asaba, Delta State, Nigeria) I am a young banker with one of Africa’s largest banks in the country and I am an aspiring investor. Few months before the plague got into the country, the FGN Treasury Bill rate plummeted to an abysmal all time low, and this inadvertently caused a similar fall in…
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CORONA WATCH 16: We thought Wuhan was far away! – Olugbenga Ojuroye
Olugbenga Ojuroye (Writes from Virginia, U.S.A.) Can I remember what I was doing when I first heard about the novel coronavirus? I would be wrong if I said I could. I know I didn’t hear about it until 2020. That’s how disconnected from the global perspective I could be at times. But I remember what…