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The Steve Oronsaye’s Panel was set up in 2011 by President Goodluck Jonathan GCFR. The committee submitted an 800-page report on April 16, 2012, which recommended the abolition and merger of 102 government agencies and parastatals, while some were listed to be self-funding. On August 21 this year, the Federal Government received a report from […]

A lot has been said about the Steve Oronsaye’s report. I doubt whether President Muhammadu Buhari GCFR will implement any part of that report before

I guess that history will be very kind to Chief Ernest Adegunle Oladeinde Shonekan, GCFR, (May 9, 1936-11 January 2022) , why? Because his tenure was the

In William Shakespeare’s classic Julius Caesar, the chief protagonist, a Roman statesman and general boasted deafeningly to his wife Calpurnia and by extension to Cassius and Pompey, the other power brokers with whom he formed a triumvirate that “Of all the wonders that I have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing death, a necessary end, will come when it will come”. So do society view the rather dreary phenomenon called death. But whenever it occurs, either for ...

Despite his standoffishness, in a day of communication technology and social media, hundreds of accolades, and felicitations on this 91st birthday have come from world leaders...

Retelling Nigeria’s Diplomacy Story As Ambassador Ba Clark Clocks 91 Years  Retelling Nigeria’s Diplomacy Story As Ambassador Ba Clark Clocks 91 Years  On Friday, April 16, 2021, one of the fathers of Nigeria’s Diplomatic Service, and early crafters of the country’s Foreign Policy, Ambassador Blessing Akporede Clark, marked his 91st birthday. Sandwiched between elder statesman, Chief EK Clark and his immediate younger brother, late playwright, Prof JP Clark, “BA” as his peers arou...

The Oghara Development Union, (ODU) Lagos Branch, has called on the Federal Government to insist that every single penny that has been forfeited by Chief James Onanefe Ibori’s associates in the London trial, be returned to Nigeria.

the loot forfeited by the associates of James Ibori, former governor of Delta state, is £6.2 million — and not £4.2 million. Advertisement On Tuesday, the UK signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU)with the Nigerian government to return £4.2 million recovered from Ibori and his associates . But the union, in a statement by Sunday Agbofodoh, its general secretary, said it had followed the case “diligently” and knows that the forfeited sum was £6.2 million. Advertisement The union s...

Vanguard News SIRA gets new President, Lakemfa On Owei Lakemfa Leading foreign relations Think Tank in Africa, the Society for International Relations Awareness, SIRA, has elected human rights activist, labour leader and author, Mr Owei Lakemfa as its new President. Lakemfa, who for over two decades has run two weekly columns on Nigeria and international affairs in the Vanguard Newspapers, succeeds Professor Nuhu Yaqub, former Vice-Chancellor, University of Abuja and Sokoto State University. ...