A Strong Foundation for Greater Impact
A Strong Foundation for Greater Impact
Despite expectations that growth will be robust in the near term, developing countries face challenges to keep up the...
All Change!!! Nigeria Is Not An Oil Economy
All Change!!! Nigeria Is Not An Oil Economy
By Kemi Adeosun
Descriptions of Nigeria’s economy often include such phrases as ‘Africa’s largest oil producer’ and ‘the oil...
Diezani’s N7.6bn Finally Forfeited to Govt by Court Order
A Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered permanent forfeiture of N 7, 644, 700, 000.00 belonging to former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani...
Niger Delta threatens Nigeria’s economy
Months have passed since the Niger Delta Avengers have launched an attack on Nigeria’s oil pipelines, yet leaders in the region are warning trouble...
NNPC kills N4tr fuel investment
About N4 trillion downstream investments are being threatened, as over 198 private depots or tank farms across the country have remained idle since the...
Forex Crashing: Matters Arising
Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has reaffirm its determination to sustain the resurgence of the Naira via continuous provision of foreign exchange to ensure...
Implications of Paris-Club Loan Refund
Nigerians are worried over lack of frugality and sense of imprudence demonstrated by a good number of the state governors in utilization of the...
Oyo-Ita: Delivering A 3-Year Strategic Plan For The Federal Civil Service
Recently, the Federal Government for the first time unveiled a rare programme aimed at consolidating the Federal Civil Service. It is the three-year Strategic...
FG, States, LGs Share N429bn in March 2017
A total of N429.127 billion has been distributed as federal allocation for the month of February 2017 to federal government, state governments and local...
Oil Exploration in the North: Matters Arising
At the start of 2016, President Muhammadu Buhari gave orders to the Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Maikanti Baru,...
Cleaning the MDAs through Forensic auditing
The Federal Government has ordered all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to prepare an inventory of all fixed assets held as at 31st December...
Thai Citizens Make a Bid for Peace
By Ibrahim Sheme
A watershed event that promises to lead to the cessation of sectarian violence in Thailand took place recently. It took place on...
Nigeria Amidst Impending Food Shortage
The incessant warnings about the possibility of Nigeria facing famine in the nearest future may have been taken with a pinch of salt by...
Can 2017 Budget End Recession?
The presidential prophecy on ending current economic recession before this year ends is quite reassuring. However, some antitheses have been put forward by Nigerians...
Rann Airstrike and Humanitarian Efforts
All through history, people have been displaced as a result of war, famine, earthquake, flood and other natural disasters. Instinctively, victims of such happenstance...
NNPC Refinery Loses 2billion Naira to Illegal Tappers
The Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company Limited (KRPC), a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), loses an average of 2.2 billion naira...
Reforming the Nigerian Tax System
In developed and emerging economies of the world, taxation remains a veritable source of revenue for government to put in place necessary infrastructure and...
Dealing with the Menace of Sub-standard Tyres in Nigeria
All over the world, roads are prime infrastructural contributors to micro and macro-economic development of any nation. As a matter of fact, it is...
Nigeria’s Unending Power Conundrum
Right from Faggae local government in Kano state to Kaduna North, Zaria local government in Kaduna, to many local governments in Lagos state and...
DANA Airlines Provides 50% Discount for MDAs
The Federal Government has signed an Agreement with Dana Airlines to give 50 per cent discount on official air travel tickets to Federal Ministries,...
