Bad loans: CBN should compel banks on credit bureau guidelines
Managing Director/Chief executive Credit Registry Services, the nation’s first credit bureau, Mr. Taiwo Ayedun has said that the most effective way for the Central bank of Nigeria (CBN) to address the problem of bad loans in the banking industry is to enforce its guidelines that banks should use credit bureaus.
Soludo: Triumph and near tragedy
FORGIVE me for quoting myself but it is merely designed to remind our readers of the fears that were expressed immediately after the governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN announced the new strategic alliance for the naira on Tuesday, August 14, 2007.
Militants threaten to resume hostilities
* Dismiss Bayelsa arms surrender By Emma Amaize Warri – MOVEMENT for the Emancipation  of the Niger-Delta (MEND) threatened yesterday to resume attacks on the oil industry at the end of its ceasefire on September 15, accusing government of bribing militants with money instead of deliberating on the real issues involved on the Niger-Delta struggle. […]
How to avoid being used
‘MOST times, lying with my husband watching him sleep on his back, beer belly rising and falling with each snore, he doesn’t look appetizing in the least -especially with his treble chin and bald head. I am starting to find him repulsive…†Melisa looked so forlorn as she told me about the state of her marriage that I had to laugh. She wasn’t amused.
The human experience: Voices and sounds
THE five senses are the instruments for navigation through our foray in life. They guide us in different ways but they work best when all are at our disposable. In cases where some are missing; in the case of the blind, the vision is compromised but the sense of hearing steps in to become extra sensitive and be a tour guide very effectively.
ASUU’s strikes as a game of musical chairs (4)
SOME of these damages are long term, and would require years of uninterrupted improvement in quality to put right. Secondly, at ASUU congress meetings, lecturers scathingly excoriate top government officials. We are fond of name-calling the president, minister of education members of the legislature and all the sybaritic occupiers of high official positions.
