Preamble Olisa Agbakoba & Associates (OA&A) a reputable law firm specializing in Public Sector Advocacy and Development organized an Aviation Forum 2012 with the topic: - EMERGING ISSUES IN THE NIGERIAN AVIATION SECTOR: NEED FOR AVIATION CABOTAGE. The event was co-sponsored by Arik Air Nigeria Limited and was attended by 71 participants including representatives of the Airlines, Aviation Indu ...

By Comrade Higinus Chika Onuegbu The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) Rivers State condemns in its entirety the renewed moves by some visionless politicians to emasculate the Trade Union movement in Nigeria. We are happy to remind Sen. Lokpobiri and his cohorts that trade unions in Nigeria, since colonial times, have done more than being mere medium for bargaining for the improvement of the welfare of ...

By Jim Pressman Abuja Barrister Ozioma Izuora, Executive Director, Mediators & Advocates of Peace (LAMPAIX), is is dedicated to Peace-Building and Conflict Resolution work. Her first novel, Dreams Deferred (first published by Topaz Books and then re-issued by Kraftgriots in 2010) won the ANA/NDDC Ken Saro-Wiwa Prose Prize in 2009. Her second novel just came off the Kraftgriots hotplates and is due for p ...

The State Security Service (SSS) has paraded eight persons suspected to have been involved in the kidnap and eventual murder of two expatriate staff of Stabilini Visinoni Construction Company, Mr. Christopher Mcmanus, a Briton and Franco Lamolinara, an Italian. Parading the suspects in Abuja, Mr. Doyin Adetuberu who represented the spokesperson of the service, Marilyn Ogar, commiserated with the families of ...

Speaker of the House of Representatives,  Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has condoled with Nigeria Police Force over the death of it's officers in a Helicopter crash in Jos, Plateau State yesterday. In a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs, Imam Imam, Tambuwal said he received the news of the air mishap with great sadness, adding that the loss of the officers, among them DIG John Har ...

Implicit in the topic, Mainstreaming Fiscal Responsibility in the Budget Process, is the basic assumption that the concepts of “fiscal responsibility” and “budget process” are understood by all the stakeholders to budgeting.  In order to avoid misunderstanding and possible resistance to the introduction of fiscal responsibility, it is appropriate, right from the beginning, to define certain concepts that wi ...

Yesterday at the floor of the Senate saw yet another onslaught against Nigerian workers and its peoples through the anti-workers’ Bill sponsored by Mr. Heinekken Lokpobiri a Senator from Bayelsa State seeking to make it unlawful for the trade unions in Nigeria to embark on any strike without obtaining the permission of the different organs of the union through a ballot. We are forced to respond to this new ...

Mrs. Philo Osovwo, wife of late Mr. Tiemkemfa Francis Osovwo (aka General Gbokos) and his immediate family members have written to the Attorney general of the federation and Minister of Justice Mohammed Adoke seeking a coroner’s inquest into the ‘suspicious’ death of General Gbokos. The letter written by Festus Keyamo on behalf of the family said “we urge you to use your good offices to apply to court to ca ...

It has come to our attention that the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Senator Bala Mohammed while commissioning five new districts on Thursday 8th March 2012 decided; without due consultation with the indigenous people of the FCT, other Nigerians resident in the territory or their National Assembly representatives; to name an extension of the Maitama District after President Goodluck Jonathan. Th ...

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has expressed deep sorrow over the death of John Haruna, the Police Deputy Inspector General (DIG) in charge of Operations Department, who died on Wednesday in a helicopter crash in Jos, Plateau State. John Haruna, who was recently promoted to DIG from his former position as Benue State Police Commissioner, died along with three other Police Officers in the air mishap. I ...