After wasting billions in almost a decade, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has, again, invited fresh bids to provide support services for its failed enterprise resource solution initiated to deepen accountability in its business processes. The Systems, Applications, Products, SAP enterprise resources planning system is an electronic management solution initiated by the Obasanjo administration to monitor real-time operation of a network of NNPC subsidiaries and affiliates irrespective of their locations. The electronic system is mostly deployed by global organisations to link their network of subsidiaries and units scattered in various locations, for easy monitoring of their operations and activities. But,…

You once came out to accuse President Muhammadu Buhari of perpetuating the worst form of nepotism in Nigeria; do you still hold this view? Absolutely! I have seen no evidence so far to make me change my mind. In the previous interview I granted you, I did ask Nigerians or anybody else to look at the evidence I produced and that evidence is very much alive and well and can be verified by anybody who cares to verify it. As far as I am concerned, I stand by everything about the allegations I levelled against President Buhari, Mamman Daura and…

Vice- Chancellor, University of Maiduguri, Professor Abubakar Njodi, has said the North-east may take 500 years to recover from the destruction inflicted by Boko Haram on its education system and attain the current standard in southern Nigeria. Njodi, a professor of Physical and Health Education, said even before the advent of Boko Haram, studies indicated that the region was about 150 years behind other parts of the country, especially the south. He made this remark on Friday when he received a delegation from the Victims’ Support Fund, VSF, on a condolence visit over the January 16 suicide bomb attack that…

Workers at the Federal Secretariat Complex, Abuja have deserted their offices as the Electricity Distribution Company cut off power supply. On Friday that most of the offices in the complex were closed. The complex which hosts most of the ministries, including Education, Health, Science and Technology, Women Affairs, and Sports had no electricity supply. Some of the workers said that the blackout had been on for some weeks due to the inability of the ministries to pay their outstanding electricity bills. They said the situation had impacted negatively on productivity, reduced office working hours, and forced workers to loiter the…