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AfDB: The task before Adesina
Akinwunmi Adesina, Nigeria’s immediate past minister of agriculture, formally assumed office as the 8th president…
Still on Buhari’s appointments
It is understandable that recent appointments of key aides and heads of government agencies by President Muhammadu…
Mounting challenges on Lagos-Badagry Expressway
When in 2009 contract was awarded for the reconstruction and expansion of Lagos-Badagry Expressway from its…
States and contributory pension scheme
The Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) was introduced in Nigeria in 2004 with the enactment of the Pension Reform…
Tackling poverty in Nigeria
Nigeria’s average growth rate in the last decade is in the region of 7-8 percent, even though the economy has…
Lawyers and Buhari’s anti-corruption crusade
President Muhammadu Buhari, speaking recently at the opening of the 55th Annual General Conference of the Nigerian…
NSE’s campaign against market infractions
The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), in a bid to improve investor confidence in the Nigerian capital market which was…
SMEs and economic growth
Nigeria is a trading economy. This is not in doubt. The April 2014 GDP rebasing exercise bears this out too, having…
New salary structure for lawmakers
It is no longer news that Nigeria runs the most expensive legislature in the world, with opulence and flamboyant…
Another air crash, another set of bodies
I am truly in a place of gnawing sadness when I hear of plane crashes. Closer home, it has been one crash after…
Beyond the anti-corruption hullabaloo
In the past couple of weeks prominent members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), including governors…
Deportation of Nigerians from Gabon and Cameroon
On Thursday, July 30 – just a day after President Muhammadu Buhari’s official visit to his Cameroonian counterpart,…