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2009 Budget: Presidency, NASS, MDAs To Spend N2b On Generators

By Otei Oham, Festus Owete and Adetutu Folasade-Koyi (Abuja)

Legislators have queried the Interior Ministry for proposing to spend N40 million for this year's National Day celebration which cost only N16 million in 2008.

Doctors' Strike Paralyses Lagos Hospitals

Yinka Shokunbi and Austin Oboh, Lagos



Mark Set To Dissolve Standing Committees

By Adetutu Folasade-Koyi, Snr Correspondent, Abuja



FG Vows Not To Recognise Guinean Junta

By Chesa Chesa, Snr State House Correspondent, Abuja

*Says Nigeria Has Nothing To Learn From Ghana

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Nigerian Troops: What role(s) In Somalia

The East African state of Somalia is at present a devil's workshop, being a theatre of war so precipitated by fundamentalists of religious colouration.
Op-Ed/ Comments

Tear Your Hearts, Not Your Garments

Each time I think about myself, my fellow citizens and my country Nigeria, the phrase of the prayers of the African priest in the denomination where I was born and reared never ceases to re-echo in my mind.

African Policy Issues For Obama (2)

There is a burden on the incoming Obama administration to work for a real integrated globalised economy, marked by equality of opportunities, which African states would be a major stakeholder.

When Will Bush Have His Day In Court?

If there is one burden the whole world has had to live with and endure since the close of the Second World War (1939-1945), it is the aggressive foreign policies and murderous tendencies of successive administrations of the US , the self-acclaimed prefects of the world.

Columnist

Conversation of an Angry man

Danfo Driver: Man Of The Year

Who exactly should we make our "Man of the Year? Already major newspapers and magazines have decided to give it to Barack Obama, the first African American to be elected president of the United States of America.

Candour's Niche

Endless Wait For Change

The much-awaited cabinet shake-up and appointment of new ministers to work with President Yar'Adua was finally wrapped recently.

Scruples

Happy New Year, Mr. President

Tomorrow is New Year Day, Mr. President, the second you are witnessing as President and Commander-in-Chief of Nigeria's Armed Forces. A couple of months from now, on May 29, to be specific, your regime would be two years old

The Roundtable

CBN's New-look Discount Window

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has very wisely (in my view) decided in the interim not to directly commit fresh resources into the banking sector in response to the ongoing global financial crisis and its concomitant effects on the Nigerian equities market.

Speaking Out

Independent Opinion Poll
Is The Sack Of Former EFCC Boss, Ribadu, Justified?.
Yes
No
Uncertain