Grandiose Parlor

  • Home
  • About
  • Archives
  • Blogroll
  • Contact
  • Multimedia
  • Category
    • Advocacy
      • Activism
      • Human Rights
    • Africa
      • Angola
      • Botswana
      • Cameroon
      • Diaspora
      • Egypt
      • Ethiopia
      • Ivory Coast
      • Kenya
      • Liberia
      • Libya
      • Niger
      • Nigeria
        • EFCC
        • Niger-Delta
      • Rwanda
      • Sierra Leone
      • Somalia
      • South Africa
      • Sudan
        • Darfur
      • Tanzania
      • Uganda
      • Zimbabwe
    • Aid
    • America
    • Aviation
    • Business and Entrepreneurship
    • Cartoon
    • China
    • Conflict
    • Corruption
    • Data
    • Democracy
    • Education
    • elections
    • Entries on Old Grandiose Palor (Blogger)
    • Environment
    • Governance
    • Health
    • Idea
    • Immigration
    • Links
    • Media
      • Blogosphere
      • Event
        • TED Africa
      • Hibiscus Project
      • video
    • Mozambique
    • Oil
    • Sports
    • Technology
      • Energy
      • ICT
        • Web 2.0
    • Wisdom
    • Zambia
  • Subscribe via RSS

Corruption

« Previous Entries

Agagu and Imoke to execute Yar’Adua’s power emergency projects

June 24th, 2008  |  by Imnakoya  |  published in Corruption, Governance, Nigeria

Governors Olusegun Agagu (Ondo) and Liyel Imoke (Cross River) are two of the three governors drafted into the Power Emergency Implementation Committee to monitor the investment in the power sector. As from July, the federal government will start spending some $4 billion USD on power plant projects nationwide.
If you are thinking as I did, […]

Bookmarks:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • del.icio.us
  • digg
  • muti
  • NewsVine

Nigeria 2025: Naija Junction Scenarios

June 16th, 2008  |  by Imnakoya  |  published in Corruption, Democracy, Governance, Nigeria

These are uncertain times for Nigeria. The country is facing many uncertainties, from the institution of good governance with robust leadership, economic revitalization and diversification, the development of a national innovation and technological capacity, the poverty challenge, to how to address the conflicts and disorder which flares up routinely in various parts of the country. […]

Bookmarks:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • del.icio.us
  • digg
  • muti
  • NewsVine

Nigeria: The ‘Rice’ Billionaires

May 8th, 2008  |  by Imnakoya  |  published in Corruption, Nigeria

Govt halts duties on rice - Guardian:
THE Federal Executive Council (FEC) yesterday took further measures aimed at cushioning the impact of the global food crisis in the country, approving the suspension of all levies and duties on rice imports between now and the end of October this year. The Council also approved a total of […]

Bookmarks:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • del.icio.us
  • digg
  • muti
  • NewsVine

Nigeria: N300m health fund, Grange advised that her own share of N10 million be shared to junior staff

April 15th, 2008  |  by Imnakoya  |  published in Blogosphere, Corruption, Democracy, Nigeria

How ministers, others shared N300m health fund - Director
Excerpt:
“I want to state that the decision to pay welfare package was a management decision involving the two ministers (Adenike Grange and Gabriel Aduku), the Permanent Secretary and the three service directors,” he said, adding that also involved were the three directors including himself, the Director of […]

Bookmarks:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • del.icio.us
  • digg
  • muti
  • NewsVine

Obasanjo waived Due Process to ‘fastrack’ power projects

March 27th, 2008  |  by Imnakoya  |  published in Corruption, Governance, Nigeria

If I were General Olusegun Obasanjo, the former Nigerian president, I will be having lots of sleepless nights.
The ongoing investigation into the energy contracts his administration awarded revealed he and the then Minister of Power, Liyel Imoke (current Governor of Cross Rivers state), decided to waiver the Due Process - a mechanism put in […]

Bookmarks:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • del.icio.us
  • digg
  • muti
  • NewsVine
« Previous Entries

Recent Posts

  • Street lights on Lagos-Benin expressway…
  • Nigeria: Shut down gas-flaring oil wells!
  • Mandela at 90
  • OBJ’s 86 billion naira railway project: Where is it?
  • Agagu and Imoke to execute Yar’Adua’s power emergency projects

Recent Comments

  • omotaylor on Street lights on Lagos-Benin expressway…
  • Oz on Street lights on Lagos-Benin expressway…
  • Imnakoya on Nigeria: Shut down gas-flaring oil wells!
  • Don Thieme on Nigeria: Shut down gas-flaring oil wells!
  • Codrin Arsene on Mandela at 90

Pages

  • About
  • Archives
  • Blogroll
  • Contact
  • Multimedia

Categories

Subscribe to posts

  • RSS Feed
  • Subscribe to Bloglines
  • Subscribe to Google Reader
  • Subscribe to MyYahoo!
  • Subscribe to Newsgator
  • Subscribe to Netvibes
  • Help with feeds

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries RSS
  • Comments RSS
  • WordPress.org


©2008 Grandiose Parlor
Powered by WordPress using the Gridline Lite theme by Graph Paper Press.