THE challenges that reforms pose are not new to these parts. With a little hindsight, we can remember that the re-structuring of this economy, otherwise called reforms started most emphatically in the public’s mind with the structural adjustment programme, SAP.

SHEHU Musa Yar’Adua’s personality, even from his days as the Governor of Katsina State, coalesced as blithely tepid, if not altogether innately colourless.

…releases N32bn to marketers for product importation By Yemie Adeoye & Oscarline Onwuemenyi LAGOS—FOLLOWING the perennial scarcity of petroleum products that is currently rocking the nation and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, incessant claims of having enough products to saturate the market, the Federal Government has finally succumbed to pressure and announced that there […]

By Emeka Mamah KADUNA — The Kaduna State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday condemned the on-going mass retrenchment of workers in the banking industry, saying it was designed to cause more hardship for Nigerian workers and deepen the country’s economic crises. The NLC, therefore, said it would soon encourage an indefinite strike […]

IN the wake of the failed attempt by a young Nigerian to blow up a Detroit-bound Delta Airlines’ aircraft on 25 December 2009, the Federal Government has been called upon to keep a tight rein on religious groups and individuals with violent tendencies. This is to protect vulnerable Nigerian youths from their pernicious influences.