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When FEC is out of job
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This phenomenon has been problematic since the return to civil rule in 1999. Every time the Federal Executive Council met, the main item on the agenda was the approval to award one contract or the other. Since then, it has become the issue which in our view is not only unfortunate, but probably a clear expression of the lack of tentative serious items on the agenda that would engage that distinguished assembly of the Honorable Ministers.
Category: Within the nation Written by Within the Nation Kabir Mato
This phenomenon has been problematic since the return to civil rule in 1999. Every time the Federal Executive Council met, the main item on the agenda was the approval to award one contract or the other. Since then, it has become the issue which in our view is not only unfortunate, but probably a clear expression of the lack of tentative serious items on the agenda that would engage that distinguished assembly of the Honorable Ministers.
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On Wednesday the 25th of August, 2009, Minister of Petroleum resources, Rilwanu Lukman, coming out of the week’s Federal Executive Council meeting told the nation in his characteristic blunt manner that in the next two months Nigerians will have to make do with a completely deregulated downstream sector of the oil industry, which will mean more difficulties to the people.
Category: Within the nation Written by Kabir Mato
On Wednesday the 25th of August, 2009, Minister of Petroleum resources, Rilwanu Lukman, coming out of the week’s Federal Executive Council meeting told the nation in his characteristic blunt manner that in the next two months Nigerians will have to make do with a completely deregulated downstream sector of the oil industry, which will mean more difficulties to the people.
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Between rule of law and amnesty
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When the government of President Umaru Yar’adua came on board on May 29th 2007, among the major issues that stood his inaugural speech taller than the whole eight years of his predecessor were a few things. One was the promise to observe rule of law and procedure which were characteristically absent in the first eight years of civil regime in Nigeria, and secondly the prayer to reform the nation’s electoral system to the extent that henceforth, elections would be free, fair and acceptable not only to Nigerians but even those who often come to observe how it is conducted.
On the promise for electoral reform, the president has bungled the opportunity to win our hearts by introducing far reaching reforms through the constitutional processes as proposed by the committee he set up under the distinguished legal colossus, Muhammad Lawal Uwais. Instead, the president succumbed to the choruses of his palace courtiers who thought it was not necessary to accept and implement the far reaching recommendations contained in that very rich report.
Category: Within the nation Written by Kabir Mato
When the government of President Umaru Yar’adua came on board on May 29th 2007, among the major issues that stood his inaugural speech taller than the whole eight years of his predecessor were a few things. One was the promise to observe rule of law and procedure which were characteristically absent in the first eight years of civil regime in Nigeria, and secondly the prayer to reform the nation’s electoral system to the extent that henceforth, elections would be free, fair and acceptable not only to Nigerians but even those who often come to observe how it is conducted.
On the promise for electoral reform, the president has bungled the opportunity to win our hearts by introducing far reaching reforms through the constitutional processes as proposed by the committee he set up under the distinguished legal colossus, Muhammad Lawal Uwais. Instead, the president succumbed to the choruses of his palace courtiers who thought it was not necessary to accept and implement the far reaching recommendations contained in that very rich report.
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Obasanjo did not create billionaires after all!
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Recent revelations by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on the health of Nigerian banks are, to say the least, alarming. The revelations further confirm the fears that most of us expressed in the heat of that farce called banking reforms and consolidation.
Category: Within the nation Written by Kabir Mato
Recent revelations by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on the health of Nigerian banks are, to say the least, alarming. The revelations further confirm the fears that most of us expressed in the heat of that farce called banking reforms and consolidation.
The Nigerian electoral process and the imperatives of reform (v)
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The anticipated reforms should make it impossible for anybody to assume office while disputes surrounding elections are yet to be dispensed with. Hence, no certificate of return should be issued until the determination of an electoral dispute. This will help to ensure that it is only those certified to have been duly elected by the electorates that assume office. It will equally eliminate the tendency to use incumbent powers to undermine the judiciary as well as eliminate tenure elongation through the judiciary.
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Category: Within the nation Written by Kabir Mato
The anticipated reforms should make it impossible for anybody to assume office while disputes surrounding elections are yet to be dispensed with. Hence, no certificate of return should be issued until the determination of an electoral dispute. This will help to ensure that it is only those certified to have been duly elected by the electorates that assume office. It will equally eliminate the tendency to use incumbent powers to undermine the judiciary as well as eliminate tenure elongation through the judiciary.