However, SAP’s shock treatment appeared more drastic than the patient could well tolerate – massive doses of devaluation which disgraced the Naira; tough credit squeeze which reduced profitable investment and income policy that affected effective domestic demand.

Just as millions wallow in penury, we hear of billions been stolen, we hear of scandals – Siemens, Halliburton, failed banks etc. For the common man it is “when I turn here, the rain falls on me, I turn there, the sun shines on me … I can only go beyond and forget,” as the poet mourned a grave situation, so hopeless that only death could end his own sorrow too.

NIGERIANS who talk about revolutions should be interested in the revolutions taking place in the judiciary, especially as they affect bail conditions for suspects. Under what most judges term “stringent bail conditions” suspects are given conditions that are almost impossible to meet. From the fantabulous sums to the calibre of persons who should be sureties, […]

By Solomon Nwoke FORMER African fastest woman, Mary Onyali-Omagbemi is so sure that the present Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) boss, Chief Solomon Ogba has the capacity to turn- around the lot of athletics in the country.

Until his new appoitment as Inspector-General of Police, last night, then Deputy Inspector-General in charge Administration, Ogbonna Onovo, responding on behalf of officers and men of the force described the outgoing Inspector-General as a child of destiny pointing out that from the work he has done since becoming the IG, “we can say that he came, saw and conquered”.