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Nigerian News

Former Rivers State Governor Peter Odili for trial

 

Rebranding Nigeria..

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Nigeria can no longer be allowed to continue to drift if it is to survive as a nation .We are therefore obliged to do something before calamity strikes

http://assemblyonline.info/2009/01/building-a-new-nigeria/

Fuel price in Nigeria

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The Federal Government of Nigeria in January reduced the price of fuel…..read full story in the link below

 

http://assemblyonline.info/2009/01/nigeria-reduces-fuel-price/

Plateau house of assembly gets new speaker

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A new Speaker has been appointed  for the Plateau House of Assembly in person of Honourable I. Nwansat, representing Pankshin Constituency.

Speaking on the reasons for the removal of Hon.  Go’ar, the Chairman of the State House of Assembly, alleged that the impeached Speaker of ‘weak leadership’.

 

Read full story in the link  below

http://assemblyonline.info/2009/01/nigeria-house-impeaches-speaker/

Obama’s inaguration speech

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The prosperity of our economy depends on our ability to extend opportunity to everyon

  Our spirit is stronger and it can not be broken, you cannot harass us, we shall defeat it

  People will judge you on what you can build not what you destroy

This is a moment that will define a generation

To the moslem world we seek a new way forward.

God bless the United States of America

Follow link to read full speech

http://assemblyonline.info/2009/01/president-obamas-inaugural-speechlive/

Amendment of Nigeria’s constitution

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Read the Communiqué issued at the end of a retreat of the National Assembly Joint Committee on Constitutional Review, (JCCR) in January 2009

The communique was read by Senator Ike Ekweremandu, Deputy Senate President, National Assembly Joint Committee on Constitutional Review, (JCCR)

Follow this link to read the document

http://assemblyonline.info/2009/01/new-nigerian-constitution-ready-by-march-2010/

Gender equality in Nigeria politics

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A group has argues that: “ all elective executive positions requiring a principal and deputy, should be so construed by law that where a member of a particular gender is running for such elective executive position, the deputy must be of the opposite sex”

 

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http://assemblyonline.info/2008/12/nigerias-constitutional-review-and-gender-equality/

Nigeria can not determine its oil revenues

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Presently, Nigeria does not know the volume of Oil produced at Oil flow stations , because they are not installed with metres”, said Professor Asobie in a live  programme on Radio Nigeria

Read the full story in the link below

http://assemblyonline.info/2008/12/nigeria-news-nigeria-does-not-know-the-volume-of-oil-it-produces/

Solutions to Nigeria’s power and energy crises

 

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Federal Minister says:

There is no quick fix solutions to the problems of the sector, as a result of long term gestational nature of investments needed to turn around the sector:“The energy sector has been in a serious situation for a long time. The situation is bad. I dont want to mention the word crisis. But It takes a long time to redress our energy problems, it takes a long time to build new capacity, to build new high voltage lines…and we cannot do this earlier than between five to ten years

read the full story in the link below:

http://assemblyonline.info/2008/12/nigerias-energy-crisis/

Nigeria’s 2009 federal budget

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Details of the 2009 Nigeria’s federal budget…follow link to read story

http://assemblyonline.info/2008/12/nigeria-senates-passes-appropriation-bill/

Nigeria’s national honour for Wole Soyinka

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Professor Wole Soyinka who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, is yet to receive a National Honour from Nigeria’s Government authorities. 

Two other Nigeria’s Intellectuals to be conferred with the national academic honours alongside Soyinka  …follow link to read full story

http://assemblyonline.info/2008/12/wole-soyinka-two-others-to-receive-nigeria-national-honours/

Lagos Nigeria gets new bill on infrastructure development

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A ‘Bill for a law to provide for the establishment of Lagos State Model City Development Authority for other connected matters’, is already before the Lagos state House of Assembly, Ikeja,

 

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http://assemblyonline.info/2008/12/bill-to-develop-lagos-infrastructural-facilities-before-house-of-assembly/

Causes of corruption in Nigeria

http://assemblyonline.info/2008/12/corruption-in-nigeria-causes-and-solutions/

Causes of corruption  in Nigeria

1. Weak Government institutions
2. Poor pay incentives
3. Lack of openness and Transparency in public service                                  
4. Absence of key anti corruption tools
5. Ineffective political processes
6. Culture and acceptance of corruption by the populace

Read the full story at

http://assemblyonline.info/2008/12/corruption-in-nigeria-causes-and-solutions/

How to curb corruption in Nigeria

http://assemblyonline.info/2008/12/civil-activist-outline-measures-to-tackle-corruption-in-nigeria/

Delivering a paper on ‘Causes and Taxonomy of Corruption’ at a 3 day Capacity Training Workshop for Civil Society Organisations involved in the fight against Corruption, Lagos, last Thursday, Mr Ekwekwuo said:

“To prevent corruption in any specific form, you need a strategy or plan that has the right mix of variables for that situation, you need to undertake a cost- benefits analysis of corruption and implement measures which must be able to address three issues. The anti corruption measures should be able to:

 

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http://assemblyonline.info/2008/12/civil-activist-outline-measures-to-tackle-corruption-in-nigeria/