Few internal memos explain better why infrastructure has remained squalid at Nigeria’s airports. The one written on 28 May 2009 by the Chief Internal Auditor of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, succinctly drives home this point. The memo, with reference FAAN/HQ/Aud/01/09/Vol.2 and sent to the Acting General Manager of the Audit Department of [...]
Dear Osayande, This open letter is from the Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) , a group of civil society, community-based and other non-governmental organizations with the objective of fighting corruption and corrupt persons by any means possible at all levels in Nigeria. It has come to our notice that your commission, Police Service Commission (PSC), [...]
Since last Thursday when the National Judicial Commission, NJC decided to recall the suspended President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Isa Ayo Salami, to his position, there have been varied reactions to the decision. Reactions have varied from those who lauded the NJC for its decision to those who considered the decision as suspicious [...]
Since September 2010, President Goodluck Jonathan has been making promises about creating jobs for the teeming unemployed graduates but such promises have turned out to be mere rhetoric as nothing significant has come out of them. While declaring to contest the presidency under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on 18 September 2010, [...]
A few weeks ago doctors in government hospitals in Lagos State embarked on a strike over increase in salary and other allowances. But the state government has met the barrage of accusations with its own answers to why it cannot pay what the medical practitioners are demanding. The Lagos State House of Assembly, which ought [...]
The brutal murder last Friday of Comrade Olaitan Oyerinde, Principal Private Secretary to the Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomhole, in Benin city by yet-to-be identified gunmen has once again brought to the fore the murderous instinct in our politicians. If for nothing else, the dastardly killing of Comrade Oyerinde in his bedroom in the early [...]
Nigeria’s sports circle, especially the football fraternity, was last Friday thrown into mourning with the shocking news of the demise of former Super Eagles goal poacher, Rashidi Yekini at the age of 49. The gangling Yekini, who was buried on Saturday at his home town in Ira, Offa, Kwara State, Nigeria, reportedly died of acute [...]
