By Emmanuel Aziken
One popular political tale that swirled around Abuja late in 2006 as President Olusegun Obasanjo prepared his exit after the collapse of the Third Term Agenda, was how he was exacting retribution.
Despite what many believed to have been Chief Anthony Anenih’s overt support for Third Term, for one reason or the other, ‘Mr. Fix It’ became one of the popular targets for the president’s vengeance.
Odion Ugbesia who was well known as Chief Anenih’s first choice for governor of Edo State in 2007 was willy-nilly, edged out as the president settled on his distant in-law, Senator Oserheimen Osunbor for the ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Partly as a consequence, Osunbor and Anenih were to have a bruising fight that culminated in Comrade Adams Oshiomhole ascending to power in 2008.
City hopes for $18.6M from feds
Marks left on an East Avenue sidewalk after an April 7 single car accident. (Contributed by Bradford Craighead)
NORWALK, Conn. No one was hurt when a car ran off East Avenue, right over the sidewalk and into somebody’s yard, but a local activist contends last week’s accident shows just how badly pedestrian improvements are needed in the area around the town green.
“While I was alarmed by the fact that a car could so easily and crazy/dangerously run up off East Avenue and over the sidewalk and end up on the front lawn at my neighbor’s building… I was secretly almost delighted that such an event would occur with Police fanfare / action because we have worked so hard on trying to get the City to address this particular section of the EA corridor,” Bradford Craighead wrote in an email to NancyOnNorwalk.
Volunteer turns trash into treasure for Suncoast Hospice Resale Shoppe
Volunteer Richard Gardiner has brought his career skills of fixing things to Suncoast Hospice Resale Shoppe, helping to generate money for families in need.
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ST. PETE â For many, fixing an old clock radio could be considered a lost cause, but not for Richard Gardiner, itâs a passion.
âThere is no sound, itâs the volume control, Iâm going to take it apart, Iâm going to squirt it with contact cleaner and its going to work fine,â said Gardiner, as he sits on a stool hovering over his work bench in the back of the Suncoast Hospice Resale Shoppe in St. Pete.
Editorial: A start at scouring the San Francisco swamp
March 3, 2021
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Director of Public Works Mohammed Nuru pitches in to help his department s TL Cares clean team pick up trash in the Tenderloin in San Francisco, Calif. on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016.Paul Chinn / The Chronicle
After a year of federal excavation of the City Hall swamp, San Francisco officials face the formidable task of persuading the public that local government will not continue to be greased by gifts of overseas vacations and expensive jewelry. City Attorney Dennis Herrera’s exclusion of suspect contractors from future business begins to contend with that challenge.
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