Senators okay jumbo pay for NASS workers
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- Thursday, 27 May 2010
The Senate, yesterday, approved a 100 per cent salary increase for workers of the National Assembly, to be implemented over eight years even before the committee set up by the Federal Government to review the salary of federal civil servants complete its assignment. The increment which followed the submission of the report of the Senate Committee on Establishment and Public Services
Abuja's Airport Runway Inflated contracts reviewed downward
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- Wednesday, 26 May 2010
- By ENYIMBA
Nigeria Legislators Demand Jumbo Pay
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- Monday, 24 May 2010
Nigerian lawmakers have demanded that their quarterly allowances be reviewed upwards. The legislators in the House of Representatives want their allowances to be increased from N9.8 billion to N15, 120,000,000. Each of the 360 members goes home with a minimum of N27.2 million every quarter but will now pocket the sum of N42 million if the review is endorsed.
Nigeria’s State of Fiber – Telecoms
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- Wednesday, 19 May 2010
- By Prince Uchendu
Fiber Channel - prince uchendu
Nigeria’s fiber optic network is still in its infancy, primarily because the governments of the developed nations provided this infrastructure for the Telecoms sector,
whereas here it has fallen to the telecom operator’s to provide and whilst MTN & GLO, particularly the latter have made some inroads in this respect, the capital intense nature of fiber optic deployment, has meant that they have targeted commercial viable routes ( for obvious reasons) and in the process leaving out vast areas of the countries
NIGERIA: Deploying Technology to Solve Our Perennial Problems
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- Thursday, 13 May 2010
- By Emeka Maduewesi
NIGERIA: Deploying Technology to Solve Our Perennial Problems - Emeka Maduewesi, Esq., LL.M, (IP and Technology Law) - In the past three weeks, I posted some of my thoughts on the infrastructural and governance problems facing Nigeria as a nation. I wrote on data security, electronic voting, power supply, etc. This short note digs deep into my juice to suggest what may be deployed to solve
