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Editorial

OBSTACLES TO EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE

BEFORE Professor Dora Akunyili broke ranks with her colleagues in the Executive Council of the Federation (EXCOF) to call on President Umaru Yar’Adua to cede power to his deputy, the general impression was that the ministers were part and parcel of the deceit about Yar’Adua’s health and the resultant political vacuum. Even after Akunyili

 

TOGO’S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

FAURE Gnassingbe’s margin of victory in Togo’s presidential election held on March 4 was decisive, but not embarrassingly crushing. He ran as the incumbent and some incumbents, especially in Africa, claim to have won more than 80 per cent of the vote.

   

UNIVERSITY RANKING

NIGERIAN universities have consistently ranked very low in the global ranking of universities. For many years, no Nigerian university has made it to the list of 1000 leading universities in the world according to The Webomerics World Ranking of Universities, produced by Cybermetrics Lab, a Spain-based organisation. Only about four Nigerian

   

AKUNYILI’S STANDPOINT

AFTER participating in a brief meeting of the Executive Council of the Federation (EXCOF), the first after the alleged return of President Umaru Yar’Adua to the country, the Minister of Information and Communications, Professor Dora Akunyili, called on those who had been managing President Yar’Adua and issuing statements on his behalf to advise the

   

JONATHAN’S PROBE PANEL

THE Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, recently inaugurated the Presidential Project Assessment Com-mittee (PPAC) headed by Ibrahim Bunu, a former Minister of the FCT. The Committee is set up to assess and provide essential information on

   

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