Xenophobic Attacks and Its Economic Implications
The latest xenophobic attacks on foreigners by South Africans have generated outrage, and condemnation from different parts of the world. Xenophobia has become an...
Reviving Early Industries For Job Creation
Unemployment in Nigeria is primarily a result of failed industries, government policies and failed educational system that produces unskilled and unemployable graduates and a...
Boko Haram violence hits fish industry in NE Nigeria
Kano (Nigeria) (AFP) - The raging Boko Haram insurgency in northeast Nigeria has hit the region's fishing industry, causing shortages and driving up prices,...
FEC Forwards Monopoly, Transportation, Postal Reform Bills To NASS
After many years of work and dilly-dallying, the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) has finally concluded work on the much anticipated Anti-Trust Bill that...
20 Essential Points From Soludo’s Treatise To Buhari and Jonathan
Presidential Election Outcome
Neither Buhari nor Jonathan will be able to deliver on the fantastic promises being made in election campaigns on the economy, and...
Politicians, Judges Earn N1.1 trn Annually
It is often the complain of officials of the Ministry of Finance, Budget Office and Debt Management Office to cite the 2010 increment of...
How Fake & Substandard Products Threaten The Economy
Shortly after he was appointed in 2011, Director General of Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Mr. Joseph Odumodu raised the alarm when he revealed...
FG to quicken construction of pedestrian bridge at Ojodu Berger (Lagos – Ibadan expressway)
The Federal Controller of Works, Lagos, Mr Godwin Eke, on Friday said the Federal Government would quicken the construction of a pedestrian bridge on...
Contractor Confronts Abubakar Audu In Court Over Inflated Contracts
The trial of former governor of Kogi State, Abubakar Audu and Alfa Ibn Mustapha, former director general, Directorate of Rural Development in his administration...
FIRS Launches Tax e-Filing Platform
In its bid to simplify and ease tax payment process, the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), over the weekend, launched the electronic filing (e-filing)...
Nigerian Fiscal Austerity is a Moral Armament
Of all the policy options at the disposal of the Federal Government in response to the recent slump in the price of crude oil,...
SERAP Accuses Lagos Councils Of Corruption
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP) has accused eight local government councils in Lagos of mismanaging N224 million and asked the Independent Corrupt...
Nigeria: A History Of Persistent Profligacy
Nigeria’s oil revenue has totalled $340 billion in exports since the 1970s and it is the fifth largest producer. Unfortunately, it is also said...
Kainji, Jebba Power Plant For Rehabilitation
A subsidiary of Russia’s largest electricity generating company RusHydro is set to put out tenders for the rehabilitation of Kainji and Jebba hydropower stations....
FG Plans Massive Expansion Of Power Infrastructure
Minister of Power, Prof Chinedu Nebo says Federal Government had earmarked N752 billion for expansion of power transmission in the next five years and...
Attaining MDGs through Judicious Utilisation of Funds
As the federal government is committed towards ensuring that the country achieves the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, the Senior Special Assistant to...
NEXIM to create synergy with Export Promotion Council
The Nigeria Export Import Bank (NEXIM) is working to develop the ECOWAS and other Africa regional markets as the traditional market for Nigerian exporters...
The Giant Strides of NEXIM in 2013
The activities of the National Export and Import Bank, NEXIM and its impact on the Nigerian economy can never go unnoticed. The strides by...
MDGs: Investing in Health Sector
From the outset, let me commend the Fathers of Family Medicine in Nigeria and the Society of Family Physicians of Nigeria for their efforts...
Global Recognition for Nigeria MDGs Efforts
World leaders at the just concluded United Nations General Assembly renews their efforts toward alleviating the plight of the poor in the society as...
