Dr Jobson Ewalefoh, the Director-General, Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC), says Public Private Partnership (PPP) can solve the infrastructure challenges being experienced in the power sector. ICRC acting Head, Media and Publicity, Mr Ifeanyi Nwoko, communicated this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. Ewalefoh was a member of high-level panelists at the just concluded […]
Yemi Osinbajo, Nigeria’s Vice President Friday night in Lagos declared that the government cannot support the universities as they want or even to keep them at their current levels. He made the remark at the “2017 Distinguished Alumni Awards and Celebration of UNILAG at 55’’ organized by the Alumni Association of the University of Lagos and […]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, in Imo State and Deputy Speaker House of Representatives, Chief Emeka Ihedioha, has finally filed a petition at the Election Petitions Tribunal, in Owerri, against Governor Rochas Okorocha of the All Progressives Congress (APC). His action, at the weekend, against Okorocha, has ended weeks of speculations and rumours […]
Activities at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Owerri were temporally paralysed, on Thursday, following a peaceful demonstration embarked upon by staff of the hospital over planned privatisation of the establishment. The protesting workers, under the aegis of the Nigeria Union of Allied Health Professionals (NUAHP), alleged that the management of the hospital had concluded plans […]
The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has urged the Lagos State governor-elect, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to live up his electoral promises when he assumes office, particularly the immediate reversal of the planned privatisation of water in Lagos. In a statement issued in Lagos, ERA/FoEN said the […]