By Oge Udegbunam and Mary Izuaka, Premium Times Twelve out of Nigeria’s 36 States paid the least attention to the implementation of real and people-impacting projects, classified as capital expenditure in the 2019 Budget, recording a less than 30 percent performance, a new report says. A report by the civic advocacy group, BudgIT, said among
By CrossRiverWatch Admin The hundreds of millions of dollars (US) multinational energy companies pay every year towards development in the Niger Delta are having negligible impact on people’s lives or environmental protection, a new study co-authored by civil society organizations Policy Alert (Nigeria), Publish What You Pay (PWYP) UK, has found. The report, “What’s in It for Us?” is
This is a column by Ken Henshaw, Executive Director of We The People. WITTY THOUGHT is a brisk review of situations in Nigeria with intent to revive social consciousness. What if Southern Nigeria decides to cut supply of petrol, diesel and kerosene to the North? Who hurts more? We need to think and act more
The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has been at the helm of affairs in Cross River State since 1999. But, it has been embroiled crisis in recent times and the conflict may affect its chances in future elections. The major opposition party, the All Progressive Congress (APC), is equally destabilised by internal squabbling. Nsa Gill of
This is a column by Ken Henshaw, Executive Director of We The People. WITTY THOUGHT is a brisk review of situations in Nigeria with intent to revive social consciousness. On all counts and indicators, especially those ones he rode into power promising, this President has failed. On the economy, the man has supervised 2 recessions
This is a column by Ken Henshaw, Executive Director of We The People. WITTY THOUGHT is a brisk review of situations in Nigeria with intent to revive social consciousness. That there is even a consideration for Goodluck Jonathan to return as Nigeria’s President indicates this country is a bad joke. Sometimes I wonder, why even
By Bertram Nwannekanma, Lagos, Anietie Akpan, Calabar, Ann Godwin, PortHarcourt, Charles Akpeji, Jalingo, Charles Ogugbuaja, Owerri, Rotimi Agboluaje, Ibadan, Emmanuel Ande, Yola, Rauf Oyewole, Bauchi, Ayodele Afolabi, Ado Ekiti and Mansur Aramide, Gombe – The Guardian Despite the place of shelter in the Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs, housing delivery in Nigeria has remained abysmally
Exactly 55 years at the wee hours of Saturday 15th January 1966, the nascent nation – Nigeria, was rocked to its very foundation when a dissident extract, or rather, sect of the Nigerian Army led by Maj. P. C. Nzeogwu Kaduna and four others kidnapped and killed notable Nigerians like Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (Prime