Central Banks should move beyond price stability — IMF
Monetary policymakers should consider doing more to counter credit market cycles to reduce risks of damaging asset price busts, according to a new IMF study after the worst financial market slump since the Great Depression. The study—based on house and stock price busts over the past 40 years—shows that previous asset price busts were often […]
Kutigi vows to dispose pending election disputes
By Ise-Oluwa Ige ABUJA — The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi, is worried over the inability of the judiciary to conclude, by now, various appeals arising from 2007 pre and post-election disputes in the country more than two years after the poll. The number one judicial officer has consequently vowed to […]
Iwu queries Maduekwe’s integrity
THE National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Maurice Iwu, has asked why the Foreign Affairs Minister, Chief Ojo Maduekwe, is still serving in the President Umar Yar’Adua administration if, indeed, he has any honour in him.
Ohu: Afenifere, NUJ, seek Coroner’s inquest
The National Publicity Secretary of the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere Renewal Group, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, has asked the Nigeria Police Force not to limit its ongoing investigation into the gruesome murder of the Assistant Political Editor of The Guardian, Mr. Bayo Ohu.
IBB distances self from FG/ ASUU face-off
A former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, has exonerated himself from the on-going face-off between the Federal Government and ASUU, saying his government was not the architect of the problem and should not be held responsible for the impasse.
Ibori’s London case: Judge condemns unfair media coverage
As the pre-trial proceedings in the case involving associates of Chief James Ibori continued in London Tuesday, 22 September, 2009, in Southwark Crown Court 8 before His Honour Judge Hardy, the Judge said he had observed the media reports of the case overnight and again asked for proportionate and fair reporting in light of the wildly exaggerated articles appearing in certain web news portals of the Nigerian media.
