Director-general of the Debt Management Office (DMO) Dr Abraham Nwankwo recently announced that the country’s current public debt portfolio, both domestic and foreign, stood at ...
Read More »On energy from coal – Guardian
The move by some industrialists and electricity generating companies to import coal from South Africa to augment industrial power generation is understandable in view of ...
Read More »Gains of the recent US-African Summit – National Mirror
Between August 4 and 6, 2014, more than 40 African leaders attended a summit in Washington DC presided over by President Barack Obama. The summit, ...
Read More »Equipping our soldiers for terror war – Punch
Soldiers rarely shy away from war; or defy the orders of their commanders to be deployed in the battle front. But this is the order ...
Read More »Enforcing the law against delayed dividends – The Sun
The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) recently announced that it would soon begin the enforcement of the statutory five percent sanction on firms that fail to ...
Read More »Between politics and principle – Nigerian Tribune
One notable feature of Nigerian politics is the frequency at which political actors switch allegiance from one political group to another. The considerable ease with ...
Read More »Northern elders’ ultimatum on Chibok girls – Punch
The hypocritical ultimatum of the Northern Elders Forum to President Goodluck Jonathan to find the Chibok girls or forget re-election is an opportunistic and provocative ...
Read More »Drain pipe – The Nation
•Demand for 0.5% of budget to fund political parties is outrageous A bizarre demand was made by the political parties at a workshop on the ...
Read More »Nipping Shekau’s caliphate in the bud – Punch
Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, appears to have made significant progress towards realising his stated ambition of carving out an “Islamic state” from the present ...
Read More »Promotions and redeployments in the police – The Sun
The Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), Suleiman Abba, recently carried out a massive redeployment of police top brass, in a move that involved no ...
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