Nigerian News Network

mobolaji-aluko.jpgOne thing that one could never fault Obasanjo on was that he was a vigorous man – maybe too vigorous in some respects – but he could work from morning to night on Nigerian and other issues, and did not let any medical conditions slow him down. To be a president of any country, least …

MEMBERS of the House of Representatives are confident that the amendment to the 2008 Budget which has attracted controversies due to differences in the amounts agreed upon by the two chambers of the National Assembly would be passed this week.

It came like lightening, at a time when industry watchers were advising the PTOs to merge operations in order to remain relevant in a telecom market where the GSM operator had taken up all the shines.

Irvin Khoza called Idah Peterside yesterday and said “we have just lost to a better tactical side, a side that planned their game and it worked out for them.”

The Progressive Peoples Alliance has lashed out at federal lawmakers for the move to increase their wage saying it smacks of “legislative rascality and insensitivity to precarious nature of sufferings encountered by the masses of this country.”

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) yesterday carpeted the Federal Government for withholding since 1992 the N500million naira take-off grants meant for the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka.

With the Vision 2020 now laid out in three phases, the Federal Government last Thursday in Abuja said it is in the process of building the capacity of the public servants toward meeting the goals of its seven-point agenda, NEEDS II and Vision 2020 programmes.