Garbadeen Muhammad on October 31st, 2009

Another very intriguing rumour is again circulating among Abuja civil servants; that come next week, the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HOCS) Mr Steve Oronsaye would bring out another explosive circular that would deal another merciless blow on civil servants. This time Mr Oronsaye is said to be contemplating reducing the retirement […]

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Garbadeen Muhammad on October 25th, 2009

At the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting chaired by President Umar Musa Yar’adua last   Wednesday, seven new private universities were approved. This brings to 41 the number of private universities in the country. Forty of them are sited in the southern part of the country.

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Garbadeen Muhammad on October 17th, 2009

Two weeks ago, one of those politically charged but substantially hollow events recurred again in Kaduna. We woke up to read that the odd pair of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, vice president from 1999-2007; and Alhaji Attahiru Dalhatu Bafarawa, Sokoto state governor from 1999-2007 went to Kaduna where they held a closed-door meeting with Nigeria’s knottiest […]

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