As part of efforts towards positioning Nigeria as Africa’s third-largest terrestrial fibre-optic infrastructure in Africa, the Honourable Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr Wale Edun, on Tuesday in Abuja, addressed the Fibre Forward Strategic Development Workshop, organised by the Federal Ministry of Communications, Digital Economy and Information Technology (FMCIDENigeria). The Workshop…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has handed over a recovered 500KVA transformer to the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation. The transformer was received by the representative of the Permanent Secretary of the Humanitarian Affairs Ministry, the Director General Services, Mr Yakubu John, through his staff Agabus Datukum,…
The Cross River State High Court sitting in Calabar has fixed 26th September 2024, for ruling on an interlocutory application filed by claimants in the renewed Obong of Calabar tussle. Recall that court had fixed 26th June 2024, to rule on the claimants’ interlocutory application but subsequently shifted the date to Tuesday, 25th June 2024….
To enhance accountability and encourage our lawmakers to do more, three weeks ago, we embarked on a review of the one-year performances of national assembly members from Cross River State. The legislators clocked one year in office on the 13th of June, 2024. The review team evaluated the lawmakers based on four key metrics: Motions,…
I had hoped to avoid revisiting the minimum wage issue but the government’s persistent antics and labour leaders’ disappointing gullibility have forced me to speak out again. As I previously argued in my articles, labour leaders made a grave mistake by suspending the industrial action without achieving any concrete gains. They succumbed to government manipulation,…
