The US Federal Government demonstrated in an opinion announced this week that it still controls how the Apaches can use their land. According to Penny Coleman, acting general counsel of the National Indian Gaming Commission, the Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma doesn’t have legal grounds to conduct gambling at a casino it built east […]
$10b Power Probe: Reps Summon Yar’Adua, Obasanjo, Bankole
President Umaru Yar’Adua is listed to appear before the House of Representatives Committee on Power and Steel to explain his take on the $10 billion former President Olusegun Obasanjo spent on power supply between 1999 and 2007. Obasanjo and Speaker Dimeji Bankole are also expected to appear before the committee, whose Chairman, Ndudi Godwin Elumelu, […]
A Stitch In Time Saves Nine
‘A stitch in time saves nine’ is a popular proverb which has much relevance today both in our private as well as public life. Persons who are lavish,snobbish, and profligate may find the proverb somewhat superfluous and even with a overbearing attitude and look at it with askance.But people who have some social purpose and obligation, may find it […]
Murky world of corruption in government
Time and again, some public officials have dipped their hands in the murky world of graft and corruption, if only to gain something out of their sensitive positions in high government offices. The anomalous multi-million NBN-ZTE broadband scandal is not the first attempt to make the national government suffer for the ineptitude and insensitiveness of […]
US lawmaker eyes China’s military build-up
Ask Rep. John Murtha about the US war in Iraq and the conversation eventually veers to China. Five years into a war the 75-year-old ex-Marine actively opposes, Murtha worries Iraq is sapping the US military at the exact time the United States should be adding muscle to answer Beijing’s growing military and economic clout. “We’ve […]
Black money culture in Bangladesh
Black money holders are controlling the economy of Bangladesh. Of the thousands of crores of black money flooding the economy the army-backed government’s anti-corruption drive is not too strong compared to the strength of black money. The most conservative estimate that puts the current total of black money at Tk 50,000 to 60,000 crore or […]
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