Editorials Thursday, Sept 4, 2008

The Africans for Obama Group

THE Africans for Obama group was allegedly put together by the Director-General of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), Prof. Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke, ostensibly to sensitise African-Americans and Nigerians in diaspora to their civic responsibility [GUARDIAN NEWSPAPERS]

Teaching hospitals contracts’ probe

The plan by the Senate to probe the award and execution of contracts for the rehabilitation of 14 university teaching hospitals in the country is apt and timely. The contracts, worth 162 million euros, were variously awarded to VAMED Engineering Limited in 2002 and 2006 [DAILY SUN]

Reparations: The Italian example

Many years after late Chief MKO Abiola made it one of the many battles he fought and lost in his checkered life, the issue of acceptance of wrong- doing against Africa in particular and making some restitution by the Western powers that enslaved, colonized and raped the continent, is yet to be settled. [DAILY CHAMPION]