… _As Mbah extols Speaker Abbas for compassionate leadership style_
The Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon. Tajudeen Abbas, Tuesday, presented a cheque for N18 million to the Enugu State Government as support to the victims of the January 25 petrol tanker explosion at Ugwu Onyeama on the Enugu-Onitsha Expressway, which claimed several lives.
Enugu State Government and the Management of the Lion Business Park have signed a novation Memorandum of Understanding for the new Enugu Lion Business Park Limited.
Performing the function in his office, the State governor, Dr Peter Mbah said the project will leverage the incentives associated with doing business in a Free Trade Zone to attract foreign direct investments, promote human capital, innovation and technology development as well as create jobs for shared economic prosperity for Enugu State, the South-East Geo-political Zone and Nigeria at large.
By Christian ABURIME
If charity, as they say, begins at home, then accountability as a governance virtue must also be shown first at home before being trumpeted to the world.
Since last month, when his administration clocked three years, the Governor of Anambra State, Professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo, CFR, has been regaling Ndi Anambra with reports of his scintillating performance.
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Festus Adedayo
On Page 28 of his very provocative book, The Present Darkness: A history of Nigerian organized crime, (2016) Stephen Ellis, British historian and Africanist, compared Nigerian politics to con artistry. Their practices, he said, were not different from acts of fabulists and fraudsters. Ellis’ take on Nigerian leaders synchronizes with a Henry Louis Gate’s The New Yorker piece of September 25, 1995. With the title, “Powell and the Black Elite,” the piece quoted ex-American Secretary of State, Colin Powell, as saying, “Nigerians as a group, frankly, are marvellous scammers… I mean, it is in their natural culture.”
