Challenges, Ironies in 2010 Budget
Shareby Bisi Ojediran
Nigerians seem to have borrowed the policy of the monkey in their expectations from annual budgets of the Federal Government. “Seeing is believing” is in fact so strong in the monkey kingdom that it is the origin of the proverb “the talisman of the monkey is its eyes.”
Year after year, Nigerians a regaled [...]
December 8, 2009
Tags: budget, David Beckham, Elin Nordegren, Michael Jackson, Michael Jordan, national assembly, Nigeria, Tiger Woods Posted in: Bisi Ojediran 
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NASS: Any hope in a truncated budget?
ShareBy Luke Onyekakeyah
THE unhealthy rivalry that prevented President Yar’Adua from presenting the 2010 budget at the National Assembly (NASS) is an ill wind that blows no one any good. Since 1999, when the current democratic dispensation started, Nigerians have not gained anything from the annual ritual called budget made by governments at all levels. What [...]
December 1, 2009
Tags: budget, national assembly, Nigeria, PDP, Yar’Adua Posted in: Luke Onyekakeyah Comments
War of the masters
Shareby Tony Momoh
I AM unhappy about what our lawmakers are making of lawmaking. The number of words in their dictionary seems to have been reduced by one important word in the armoury of men of honour. That word is shame. Our lawmakers know no shame, and it is a pity.
But let me digress before I [...]
November 29, 2009
Tags: lawmakers, national assembly, Nigeria, Yar’Adua Posted in: Tony Momoh Comments
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