Nigeria's economy will hit double-digit growth by the end
of 2011 or early 2012, the country's finance minister has told the BBC. Olusegun
Aganga's prediction comes after the Nigerian economy grew by more than 7% in
the first half of this year.
There are strong
indications that former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mallam
Nasir el-Rufai, may emerge the director general of President Goodluck Jonathan
Campaign Organisation which will be unfolded next week.
Following a powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake which struck
much of New Zealand's second largest city Christchurch early Saturday and
caused widespread damage, the authorities has declared a state of emergency.
A Nigerian man has been
sentenced to 12 years in prison for sending out fraudulent e-mails offering
victims big bucks in exchange for moving cash to the United States. Okpako Mike
Diamreyan, 31, was sentenced to 151 months of prison Wednesday by United States
District Judge Janet Hall in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
At least 123 criminals, including 39 persons from Benue
State who have been convicted to death are waiting for execution at the Federal
Prison, Jos Plateau State.
President Goodluck
Jonathan of Nigeria may not yet have declared whether he will run or not in the
forthcoming general elections due in January, 2011 but a growing number of his
supporters are actively campaigning on his behalf.
Israeli researchers have
developed a new treatment for HIV that kills human cells infected with the
virus and could lead to a breakthrough in treating AIDS, the Haaretz newspaper
said on Friday.
Nigeria’s Finance Minister,
Olusegun Aganga said government is planning to remove subsidies on domestic
fuel prices within six months after investing in a mass transit system to ease
the impact on the poor.
In an interview with
newsmen after delivering a lecture on ‘Culture and Politics’ at the opening of
the first international conference on culture organised by the Ondo State Ministry
of Culture and Tourism, Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, on Thursday urged
Nigerians to await the results of 2011 poll before condemning the Federal
Government’s approach to making the exercise hitch-free.
Following the report
accredited to the Lagos State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice,
Mr. Olasupo Sasore, that the State government had reached no deal with the
presidency to release Hamza Al-Mustapha, the former Chief Security Officer to
late General Sani Abacha, a group, under the aegis of Movement for the
Emancipation of Hamza Al-Mustapha, yesterday in Kano, staged a peaceful protest
for the unconditional release of Major Hamza Al-Mustapha.
Lagos State Governor, Babatunde
Fashola on Thursday swore in seven new high court judges. The new judges are
Justices Marian Emeya, Ibironke Harrison, Christopher Balogun, Kafeel Dawodu,
Latifat Oluyemi, Latifat Folami and Olubunmi Femi-Adeniyi.
Following the payment of the sum of N50 million
navigational charges, the Nigeria Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) on Thursday
cleared Arik Air to commence flight operations.
Israeli and Palestinian
leaders agreed Thursday to produce a framework for a permanent peace deal and
to hold a second round of direct talks this month followed by regular meetings,
a modest achievement reached amid deep skepticism about success at their first
such session in two years.
The world's aid and charity
organisations have resolved to again urge governments to pump billions of
dollars into the global fight against poverty. Any suggestion that they lacked
the resources to do so was a "nonsense", the final day of the United
Nations DPI/NGO (Department of Public Information/Non-Governmental
Organisation) Conference was told on Wednesday.
Nigeria risks social unrest
in the coming years unless the oil-rich nation takes advantage of its resources
and creates jobs for its swelling youth population, a report released on
Wednesday warned. The report commissioned by the British Council said Africa's
most populous nation "could reap an enormous economic dividend in the next
20 years if it creates opportunities for its young people -- but faces a
demographic disaster if it fails."
Jos, the Plateau state capital, boiled yet again recently leaving in the wake of it hundreds of lives lost and properties worth billions of Naira destroyed. A good number of those who survived crisis have been economically displaced and may have to start life all over again.
Deregulation, the magic wand, we've been told is the only solution to our petroleum needs. Nigerians, the federal government insists, must embrace deregulation if they need petroleum products or face the fate of returning to the medieval era of using firewood and stones or at best acquire plenty of donkeys from northern Nigeria, if they must move around.
A number of people would have kept their dead parents in the mortuary for months, thereby delaying the natural process of decomposition, all for fear of kidnap in the southeast today.
Hey Ladies, In the last publication we
talked about being independent as a lady and highlighted so many points, but we
want to continue exploring the independent state of mind placing emphasis on
when the quest for independence could turn into arrogance in homes or amidst
friends.
Michael Imoudu - Labour Leader No. 1 Pa Michael Aikhamen Omnibus Imoudu is Nigeria's first
labour leader. He mooted the idea of a union as an apprentice turner at the
Nigerian Railway Corporation, Lagos. From that he never relented in mobolising
other workers for better condition of service. Imoudu, the doyen of the labour
movement was born in Sabongida Ora, Edo State on September 17, 1902.
