Nigerian authorities should consider raising value-added taxes and removing fuel subsidies to boost revenue and compensate for a plunge in oil prices, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said. “Hard decisions will need to […]
Tuesday’s press conference by the IMF boss seems to have achieved its expected goal – dose the tension and change the topic of discourse around her visit to Nigeria in particular, something President Buhari’s media […]
Nigerian football official Ibrahim Abubakar has been shot dead by armed robbers at his house in Abuja on Wednesday. Abubakar was head of protocol for the country’s football federation. Former Arsenal striker Nwankwo Kanu has […]
An Islamic court has sentenced a Nigerian cleric to death by hanging for insulting the Prophet Muhammad in the northern city of Kano. Abdulazeez Dauda, popularly known as Abdul Inyass, was convicted after a trial […]
When you analyse a budget assumed to have been painstakingly drawn up by compatriots, you risk being regarded as wilfully attempting to knock down someone else’s sandcastle. Anyway, howbeit might be said, President Muhammadu Buhari’s […]
THE Central Bank of Nigeria, is, obviously losing the battle to arrest inflation and the unyielding slide in the Naira’s exchange rate. With inflation consistently closer to 10 per cent, all static incomes have lost […]
JANUARY is the month of the budget, the yearly rituals on incomes and expenditures of the governments. In the closing days of 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari and many of the state governors delivered their budgets […]
Every nation has what I like to call the “guardians of the flame”. These are the institutions that give backbone to statehood because they are the instruments through which a nation-state assures its sovereignty, security, […]
With the dwindling income from sale of crude oil, it has become imperative for government at all levels to scout for alternative sources of income to fund development projects and programmes as well as oil […]
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has met the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) managing director as the West African country grapples with the fall in global oil prices. His government is trying to secure funds to combat […]
Authorities of the Federal High Court of Nigeria (FHCN) have dissociated the court from media reports to the effect that the court granted bail at N250million to the immediate past National Security Adviser (NSA), Colonel Sambo […]
ABUJA – MANAGING Director, International Monetary Fund, IMF, Christine Lagarde has asked Nigeria and Nigerians to brace up for harder times, following the massive fall in the price of oil globally, just as she said […]
I was at a dinner in Port Harcourt recently and most of those present had harsh words for the Central Bank of Nigeria and its leadership. As the diners lambasted the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, […]
Hauwa is a middle-aged Nigerian woman from Gombe State. She is a mother of three, pregnant for the fourth and currently studying for a postgraduate degree in a prestigious university in the United Kingdom. She […]
The News condemned her as “The Failed Minister” on the cover of its edition of May 25. On the other hand, Government, a monthly publication of Leadership Newspapers, praised her as the minister who “revamped […]
The one thing the president—or the executive arm of government—shouldn’t do is to hijack the function of the court. Nor should the president and his cohorts be at liberty to decide which verdicts he would […]
On the subject of the President’s media chat, some say they found his declarations “dictatorial. So, allow me to play devil’s advocate and ask: Is a good dictatorship better than a corrupt democracy? In asking […]
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said that Nigerians have proved wrong those who prophesied doom in the country after the 2015 general elections. Jonathan disclosed this in his Facebook yesterday while reacting to the honour […]
DOWN the ages, philosophers have speculated on time as both an arbitrary and an artificial construct. Time for this class of people is a continuum which humanity has for its own convenience divided into time […]
The Federal Government has said it will not succumb to agitations from some quarters to scrap the National Youth Service Corps scheme. The Minister of Youth Development and Sports, Mr. Solomon Dalong, in Lagos on […]
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