Banks to repay 3.6 billion euros of crisis loans: ECB
Banks will next week return 3.59 billion euros ($4.8 billion) of crisis loans early to the European Central Bank,…
EU warns Spain and Italy over their budget plans
The European Commission, the European Union's executive arm, has warned Spain and Italy that their draft budgets…
Social media: Private vs. public space?
I recently read about a staff of a leading American airline who not only tattled in the media about his work place,…
Giving quality education to children
There has been this war of words between proponents and critics of Corporate Social Responsibility. While the…
… Of adoptees and lifelong scars
Funlola grew up in an environment strange from the one in which she was born. Her parents lived in Ghana before…
The misadventure of a chief indulgee
For some other reasons that I cannot readily explain, I am finding it hard to travel these days. And it doesn’t…
De-risking Nigeria’s transportation, logistics industry
The recent report ‘Africa gearing up’ by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) which looks at future prospects in Africa for…
RE: There was indeed a country
Dear readers, I received this e-mail from a reader who has a different view about Chinua Achebe’s book, ‘There was…
FG inaugurates ‘Light Up Nigeria’ project
The Federal Government on Wednesday in Abuja inaugurated a special power initiative tagged ‘Light Up Nigeria’…
China to open mission with tiny Sao Tome, despite its…
China plans to open a trade mission to promote projects in Sao Tome and Principe, 16 years after it broke off…