Day: June 3, 2023
How Putin has given South Africa a big diplomatic headache
It has been an uncomfortable few months for South African diplomacy.A country that would like to be seen as a wise and steady ambassador for a negotiated peace in Ukraine, and a crusading champion of a non-aligned, multi-polar world, has been caught up…
ACC needs to be more capacitated: Van der Merwe
Deputy Director General of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), Advocate Erna Van Der Merwe, said the lack of sufficient funding and human resource capacity for the ACC is hampering its operations.Van der Merwe was responding to questions posed by thi…
Van der Merwe was responding to questions.
Deputy Director General of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), Advocate Erna Van Der Merwe, said the lack of sufficient funding and human resource capacity for the ACC is hampering its operations.Van der Merwe was responding to questions posed by thi…
Will Tinubu administrtion end fuel subsidy controversy?
No policy in Nigeria’s petroleum industry has generated more controversy than subsidy removal. Since the return to democracy in 1999, it has defied ministers and even the entire lifespan of administrations.The argument is that the pump price of Premium…
Group backs Tinubu on subsidy removal, calls for restructuring
The Campaign for Democracy (CD), a pro-democracy, civil society and human rights organisation, has backed President Bola Tinubu on the removal of fuel subsidy.The group made this known in a communique issued by its North Central Executive Committee at …
Military officers’ wives donate solar-powered borehole to barracks
The Unique 38 Regular Course Ladies Welfare Association on Saturday, donated two solar-powered borehole to the residents of Ushafa Military Camp in Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).The association, made up of wives of the membe…
Maritime: Why we must resuscitate SLOFFEA – Official
The Shipping Lines Association of Nigeria (SAN) says the moribund Shipping Lines Operators and Freight Forwarders Employers Association (SLOFFEA), will be resuscitated.It says the association will be resuscitated to handle the setting of minimum standa…
No Niger Delta ruler, elder called for Ndiomu’s sack – Group
Niger Delta Integrity Group (NDIG) says no elders, traditional rulers and other groups have called for the sack of the Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), retired Maj.-Gen. Barry Ndiomu.This is contained in a statement on…