Showing posts with label Nigeria. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nigeria. Show all posts

Wednesday, 2 December 2015

11 Things in November; an Overview of the Senate’s Legislative activities.


  
by Abang Dove
The month of November has been a busy but eventful one in the Nigerian Senate. Lots of Bills were presented and a few other motions passed. Out of all the Bills presented, a number of them also passed for second reading.
Some of these Bills presented to the house include:

Tuesday, 10 November 2015

To the North Again


by Ezenwa Obumneme Ugochukwu
Two weeks after the family buried our mother, and the letter of resignation sent to the Cam’ Herald was approved; I got another manila envelope besides the one whose content wished me well in my career ahead.  The letter came from Miriam querying why I decided to quit my job. She was disappointed and was the only colleague of mine who wrote to me from my former workplace. Candidly I wasn’t surprised, given that the moment I wrote my address on the upper right side of my resignation I knew she was going to write back.

Merde!”

 “Nothing happens in this outfit without her busy-self knowing.” I remember hearing a frustrated worker complain of Miriam’s energy.

Thursday, 13 August 2015

Thursday, 23 July 2015

Buhari: Halfway to 100 Days




By Olu Wole Onemola
 On the 4th of March, 1933, faced with the near-insurmountable odds of the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) assumed office as the 32nd President of the United States of America. At the time, the economic forecasts of the United States seemed bleak with a 25% unemployment rate; a more than 60% drop in agricultural produce prices, and; over 11,000 banks closing their doors. Retrospectively, as the Roosevelt Institute now describes those dark days, America, “appeared to be falling into an economic abyss” that would have probably led to “the total breakdown of order.