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The Buhari administration indicated the other day that it would embark on the implementation of the recommendations in the report of the Presidential Committee on Restructuring and Rationalisation of Federal Government Parastatals, Commissions and Agencies. The committee headed by Mr. Steve Oronsaye, former Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HCSF), was set up …
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A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State, Hon. Sunday Frank Oputu has described as “treacherous” the allegations of high debt profile against the past administration of Gov. Seriake Dickson by the former Commissioner of Lands, Surv. Furoebi Akene in a leaked viral telephone tape in the state. The 15 minutes telephone …
Echoes of Development In Bayelsa State: Episode Twelve 12 • The increasing government Debt burden and underdevelopment of Bayelsa State caused By Greed, Nepotism, Ineptitude and Insensitivity of Leadership: A cause for concern. Let me start this episode with these questions; “Bayelsa State will be twenty-four (24) years in ten days’ time, what are we …
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Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) — Last year Ifeanyi Ugokwe was arrested and locked up for weeks. His crime: he tried to take his own life. After weeks of being hungry and jobless, the 25-year old says he reached breaking point after a security guard pushed him to the ground while he was searching for work at …
“Our politicians need the Rawlings treatment!” If you ever wondered what some Nigerian activists and commentators meant by that, here is a clue: it is not a medical treatment. It is not a pedicure either. On June 4, 1979, a group of soldiers smuggled Jerry John Rawlings, a flight lieutenant in the Ghana Air Force, …
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