Now that it has happened, I am appealing to the FCT Minister for statutory re-allocation of my plots of lands affected by the academy since I was told that statutory allocations are irrevocable.
Former Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma, (rtd) has said the problem of poor university funding is a universal problem and not peculiar to Nigeria. Danjuma made the observation during his decoration as a UI@75 Ambassador Extraordinaire in Lagos. He noted that even America, the supposedly wealthiest country in the world, does […]
A judge in the London High Court has ruled against an award which could have cost Nigeria US$15 billion, but the shadow of corruption in the affair remains, Victory is claimed by all, said Tacitus, a historian of ancient Rome, failure by one alone. His point resonates with the 23 October verdict in the case of Nigeria versus Process & Industrial Development (P&ID), which seems to have been going on since the classical chronicler s days. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu welcomed a verdict that forensically dismantled the grounds for an award against Nigeria, with interest, of close to US$15 billion, a third of the country s reported foreign exchange reserves and more than it spends a year on health and education.
The President s policy experiments – on subsidies, the naira and the military – have raised questions about his ministerial team, A mass of contradictory signals greeted Bola Ahmed Tinubu s first hundred days in the presidency on 6 September. The day before, the National Labour Congress had called on its members to strike in protest against the Tinubu government triggering inflation by ending fuel subsidies and devaluing the naira without any measures to protect citizens.