There are clear indications that the war on corruption has started in earnest in the country. Two major factors that point to this development are the induction of a panel on war on corruption and the announcement Tuesday by President Muhammadu Buhari that his administration has started collating facts leading to the identification of officials…
FEC RELEASES TRANSITION TIMETABLE
The federal executive council today released the final transition timetable. On May 28, Muhammadu Buhari , president -elect and Yemi Osibanjo , Vice President-elect will be conducted round the Villa. Thereafter outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan will hand over the handover notes to Buhari at the council chambers. Later in the evening, there will be a…
FEC to Consider Confab Report Today
The Federal Executive Council, FEC, will today, receive and deliberate on the report of a committee set up by President Goodluck Jonathan to draw up the implementation strategy for the recommendations of the 2014 National Conference. A top government official, who pleaded anonymity on Tuesday, said that discussion on the report of the Justice Idris…
Land Swap Gives Opportunity for Growth
– Oloye Olajumoke Akinjide, minister of state for the Federal Capital Territory What are your assessment and appreciation of the land swap policy? The land swap policy is an innovative way of bringing the private sector into an area that hitherto only government had taken on, which is the provision of district infrastructure. You…
Jonathan Hosts Meeting On Security
The meeting called by President Goodluck Jonathan on the state of insecurity in Nigeria has taken off in Aso Rock villa, Abuja. It is a crucial meeting expected to discuss the way out of the current security crisis in the country. The meeting was called following the spate of attacks by the dreaded Boko Haram…
“President Jonathan under Psychological Pressure” – says Labaran Maku
As expected, last Monday’s bomb blast in Abuja and the abduction of over 100 secondary school students in Maiduguri same Monday night by Boko Haram dominated today’s Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting. Labaran Maku, minister of information, while briefing State House Correspondents at the Presidential Villa, said that President Goodluck Jonathan is under…