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States’ poverty amid huge endowments
Recently a national newspaper in its cover page posted an interesting story capturing huge natural endowments in…
Nigeria-United States relations
There is a subsisting euphoria in the presidency over President Buhari’s recent trip to the United States. This is…
ICAN and legacy of service
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) will at the end of this month hold its annual conference…
King’s College and infrastructure challenge
Whenever sweet stories around the life of institutions, like individuals, change and tend towards the unsavoury, it…
Cabinet delay and Nigerian economy
There has been considerable anxiety in the polity over the delay in the constitution of a cabinet by President…
Developing Nigeria’s steel sector
In spite of the proven link between the development of the iron and steel industry and the industrialisation and…
Contributory pension scheme and Nigerian states
Eleven years after the Contributory Pension Scheme (CPS) was introduced in Nigeria with the enactment of the…
On the perennial underfunding of the police
The recent report that the management of the Nigeria Police Force has stopped recruitment into the force as a…
No special forex for pilgrims
The Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission (NCPC), through its executive secretary, John Kennedy Opara, recently…
Indonesia’s return to OPEC
Despite the consensual profile which underpins international organisations, these global bodies also have to…
Involving private sector in infrastructure financing
It is not in doubt that Nigeria has a huge infrastructure deficit. The country’s core infrastructure stock is…
Ode to Soyinka at 81
Wole Soyinka, poet, playwright, social activist and Africa’s first Nobel laureate in literature, turned 81 on July…