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Does Privatisation Serve the Public Interest?, By Eric Teniola The privatisation programme was just an opportunity by government to allow very few individuals to buy our common wealth at give away prices. Some of these companies privatised were established through loans procured by the central government on behalf of the people of Nigeria, and it is the people of Nigeria who will have to repay the loans. Of what benefit has this privatisation programme been to the people of Nigeria and what im...

The privatisation programme was just an opportunity by government to allow very few individuals to buy our common wealth at give away prices.

Vanguard News Does privatisation serve public interests? On By Eric Teniola BETWEEN 1988 and 1993, Alhaji Hamzat Rafindandi Zayyad (1937-2002) dominated the headlines in this country. He was in the news not because he was the first chartered accountant from the old Northern Nigeria. He became an accountant in 1963. He was in the news not because he was a mentor and godfather to many public officers, especially from Northern states, including the current governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir E...

ON THE GO Resident permit: Immigration warns Nigerians against fake marriages to foreigners Muhammed Babandede, comptroller-general of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), has warned Nigerians against marrying foreigners in the attempt to procure resident permits.Advertisement Speaking at a meeting with journalists in Abuja... Kaduna closes case against El-Zakzaky, asks court to convict him The Kaduna state government has asked a high court in the state to convict Ibrahim El...

Daily Post Nigeria Published Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo has commended Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State over his efforts in ensuring security, good governance, and infrastructural development in the State. Bello’s Chief Press Secretary, Mohammed Onogwu, made the meeting public in a statement on Sunday evening, NAN reports. Obasanjo commended Bello for his good works and urged him to sustain the efforts. Onogwu said the parley between the governor and Obasanjo ended with fruitful di...

Daily Post Nigeria Published One general characteristic that marks out Nigeria’s current government is the inability of all the relevant arms of government to be up and doing in the critical area of maintaining global best practices in terms of accountability, probity and transparency in public finance. These qualities are the democratic benchmarks that marks a Country out as a responsible constitutional democracy. Closely following the above, is the illogicality and fallacies being bandied a...

The Director-General of Voice of Nigeria, Mr. Osita Okechukwu has blamed the current security challenges facing Nigeria on the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP), an IMF policy under the military leadership of then Head of State, Ibrahim Babandiga DAILY POST reports that Nigeria has lately been hit with insecurity of a high magnitude, a situation that has now worsened with the endless abduction of school children in the Northern part of the country. He also did not spare power distribution c...

The Director General, Voice of Nigeria (VON) and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Osita Okechukwu, has blamed the insecurity challenge facing the country on the outcome of “Extreme-Poverty” planted in 1986 by the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) of the Ibrahim Babangida regime.

Advertisement With this appointment, 66-year-old Okonjo-Iweala has made history as the first African and the first woman to head the major, yet beleaguered financial organization. By every inch of it, Okonjo-Iweala, a world-class economist, a two-time Nigerian finance minister and foreign minister for a brief period, deserves the appointment. Considering the drama during her quest for the position, so many Africans, especially Nigerians, in solidarity with her, have generally shown a lot of exc...

[email protected]: Journey Of A Champion Of Human Rights His agitations for a better Nigeria and utter hatred for looters of Nigeria’s wealth have seen him arrested, detained, and in many cases, brutalised. by SaharaReporters, New York Feb 16, 2021 For over three decades, human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, has consistently screamed at the ineptitude of government institutions and overly corrupt politicians in Nigeria. At 12, he learned to ride a motorcycle so that he could go to the lake...