There are many problems associated with living in satellite towns in Abuja. From poor transport system to inadequate security to bad road and lack of social amenities such as healthcare and power. However, when the government decides to initiate developmental projects such as road construction, it is expected to spark joyous celebration among the residents. But in most satellite towns in Abuja where the government has started developing, the residents are apprehensive that the bulldozers will soon start rolling. Michael Oche and Augustine Aminu write.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
NASS, Sanusi and the Fiscal Discipline In Governance
The National Assembly is repositioning, so it seems. The NASS members have announced that they would lead a campaign to enthrone fiscal discipline in governance.
To start with, the Senate President David Mark told Nigerians that the National Assembly would cut its recurrent expenditure and would want other arms of government to make similar sacrifice. Was it a direct response to the Sanusi’s hurricane which blew open their outrageious spending? UCHENNA AWOM in this analysis x-rays the NASS offer and asks how real it is. Equally, would other arms of government do likewise?
To start with, the Senate President David Mark told Nigerians that the National Assembly would cut its recurrent expenditure and would want other arms of government to make similar sacrifice. Was it a direct response to the Sanusi’s hurricane which blew open their outrageious spending? UCHENNA AWOM in this analysis x-rays the NASS offer and asks how real it is. Equally, would other arms of government do likewise?
Case For Inclusive Education In Nigeria
Children with disability deserve equal access to quality education. Experts have suggested that an inclusive education should be encouraged by governments by way of providing infrastructure and other facilities that enhance learning, socialisation and the overall development of children with disability. Chika Mefor reports.
Chioma Aroh, became a pupil of one of the primary schools in Anambra State at the age of six. She was as smart and intelligent and as determined like her many classmates striving for the best, striving to earn praise from both her parents and her teachers. Only that she was crippled, attacked by the deadly polio disease when she was a baby.
‘We’re Not Involved In Shady Deals’
The Blueprint Newspapers Group whose corporate office was on Friday, raided by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on allegations of involvement in fraudulent activities, has said that they are not involved in any shady deals.
Benue Crisis: Police Summons Unongo, Akume, Ugbah
Govt is hunting opponents – Ugbah || ‘Unongo is ready for questioning’ || Count us out of invitation – Suswam’s aide || The simmering political crisis in Benue State took another dimension yesterday, as the Nigeria Police Force summoned the Action Congress of Nigeria governorship candidate in the April 26 poll in the state, Prof. Steve Ugbah, Senator George Akume and a former minister of steel, Paul Unongo.
The police invitation of Akume is coming on the heels of the arrest yesterday morning of two ACN chieftains, former chairman of Gboko local government area Chief Simon Abua Yaji and Mr. Adaa Maagbe by policemen.
PDP Zoning, Appointments: Another Round Of ‘Who gets What’
For now, attention has shifted from the recently concluded general election to the frenzied jostle for who occupies the plethora of political positions in the soon to be constituted cabinet. From key positions in the National Assembly, to ministerial appointments and sundry positions in President Goodluck Jonathan cabinet, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), specifically, in the South West is presently embroiled in a fierce tussle over who calls the shot in terms of submission of nominees. This report plays up the returning zoning arrangement, contenders, pretenders and other emerging issues. Edegbe Odemwingie writes with additional reports from LEADERSHIP SUNDAY’s South-West correspondents, Olaolu Oladipo, Sarkin Babalola, Sefiu Ayanbimpe and Abiola Alo.
IBB Varsity Removes Lecturer With Fake Certificate
A female lecturer at Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University (IBBU), Lapai, (names withheld) has been sacked from the university for alleged forgery of a master’s degree certificate.
LEADERSHIP SUNDAY gathered that the female lecturer, who was in the department of Mass Communication of the university, claimed that she holds a master’s degree from a famous northern university and was employed based on the claim.
It was gathered that the university authority, based on allegations from some persons who were suspecting her, contacted the university and confirmed that she did her first degree in the school but never came back for her master’s.
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