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Comrade Charles Okongwu is the National Chairman of Motorcycle Transport Union of Nigeria (MTUN). He was in Gwagwalada during the flag-off of Road Code Awareness Campaign by the Federal Road Safety Commission. In a chat with Chika Okeke, he said motorcyclists must have a representative in the Houses of Assembly and House of Representatives during the 2011 general elections. Excerpts:
A member of the House of Representatives and Chairman House Committee on Gas, Hon. Igo Aguma, has said that gas flaring in Nigeria would end in 2012.
Rivers State has disclosed plans to grant three to five years tax holiday to would -be investors.
The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola yesterday presented the 2010 budget estimate of N429.59 billion to the state Assembly for approval.
Senator Sylvester Anyanwu (PDP-Imo), has expressed concern over the dilapidation of infrastructure at the NTA Channel 27 in Okigwe in Imo State.
In its renewed attempt to realize its primary healthcare policy, the Imo State Government says it will employ more Environmental Health Officers and rehabilitate health centres in the rural areas.
The House of Representatives on yesday approved changes to President Umaru Yar'Aduas medium term expenditure framework (MTEF) and fiscal strategy paper which it had a heated argument over last week, approving the forecast of economic growth rate and altering other indicators, including the oil benchmark.
Losses recorded in the shares of 34 companies,especially those of Mobil, and food manufacturing major, Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC), yesterday pushed the primary equity performance indicators back to the negative region.
Student body of the University of Port Harcourt has called on the Federal Government to immediately relocate the ex-militant camp located at Aluu, near Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. This followed another violent protest staged by the ex- militants numbering about 4000 at the Aluu Rehabilitation Center .
Standard Chartered Bank has restated its support for bilateral trade between Africa and Asia, with the launch of the Nigerian- Malaysian Trade Corridor.
President Yar'Adua has been called upon to sack the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Senator Adamu Aliero, for closing all public schools in the territory for the sake of the 2009 Abuja Carnival.
The Central Bank Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi said on Monday that the apex bank had traced about 60 shops in Dubai belonging to one of the sacked Bank Chief Executive Officers (CEOs).
The media of late have been awash with calls for the scrapping of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) because of reported deaths of corps members either in accidents, gang rape of its female members, or in the Scheme's inability to provide befitting permanent orientation camps, among others.
Anambra state government has agreed to pay the long agitated 27.5 percent Teachers Salary Structure (TSS) to teachers from next month.
There was a fire outbreak yesterday, which disrupted operations at Ejigbo Depot belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in Lagos.
Honorary International Investors Council (HIIC), comprising prominent global individual investors, yesterday advised the Federal Government to ensure that funds earmarked for development of the Niger Delta region are judiciously managed and channeled to projects for which they are meant.
The House of Representatives Committee on Gas Resources yesterday raised questions over the implementation of the 2009 Budget in the gas sector for which the Federal Government provided the sum of $1.5billion to fund the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in the execution of domestic gas projects.
Petroleum Equalisation Fund (PEF) Management Board yesterday announced the installation of new tracking equipment towards ensuring availability of petroleum products, a move seen as an innovative way of reducing the spate of petroleum product diversion in the country.
Action Congress (AC) in Ekiti State, said yesterday that it has been vindicated over its earlier comment on the state of the state's teaching hospital, with the recent work to rule embarked upon by the medical personnel over obsolete medical facilities in the hospital.
Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Justice Emmanuel Ayoola, yesterday canvassed a 15-year imprisonment term and forfeiture of assets of any culprit found to have embezzled funds accrueing from the welfare programmes of government , especially that expected from the deregulation of the oil sector.
President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has again expressed concern over condition of roads in the country, saying the Federal Government would not relent in ensuring that all road contracts awarded were properly executed to stand the test of time.
We cannot over-dramatize it. Perhaps it is by over-dramatizing it or exaggerating it that wisdom will eventually prevail in the matter. We cannot simply wish it away either.
Despite political and social distractions the present administration in Plateau State has been facing, the government has never shifted its focus on the provision of infrastructure to the urban and rural dwellers. ROLAND OGBONNAYA writes on the effort by Jang's administration to bring to life once dead bones on the plateau
The Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF) has donated 100 desktop computers, ICT facilities and broadband internet connectivity, worth N20 million to Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto. The donation was made under its Tertiary Institution Access Project (TIAP).
Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) recently organised a first ever educational mentoring clinic for hundreds of students from Senior Secondary One (SS1) to SS3 from Edo, Delta and Bayelsa States, who are beneficiaries of its scholarship scheme, as well as teachers drawn from some target areas.
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