Oil rings in the New Year, settles at $79
As the year drew to a close, crude oil reached for the $80 mark, but fell short as the market closed its doors. Putting together a nice rebound from the 2008 price collapse that carried into 1Q2009, 2009 will be hailed as one of the strongest years for crude oil since 1973 on a percentage gain basis.
Christian leaders oppose calls for Yar’Adua’s resignation
By Sam Eyoboka & Olayinka Latona While thousands of Nigerians besieged motor-parks for their onward return trips to their various locations after the Yuletide, others trooped to the different churches where pastors urged members to pray for the speedy recovery of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua who is currently convalescing in a Saudi hospital. In accordance […]
Nigeria’s rough road to Copenhagen: The story of a failed summit (2)
The dedication of the minister was visible at the meeting. Most of the time, he was always the last person to leave the Bella Centre venue of the Summit after having attended the usually long plenary meetings and regional consultative meetings of the African Group and that of Group of 77 plus China with his colleagues – the Minister of State Power, Minister of State Health and the Minister of Foreign Affairs as well as the seemingly indefatigable Nigerian Ambassador to the Nordic Countries, Dr. Boladei Godknows Igali.
Farouk: Terrorist? No! Misguided? Yes!!
As far as I am concerned they are all a bunch of media executioners. They have not even bothered with the first golden rule of journalism and law —let the other party be heard. None of our engaging and erudite columnists has spoken to Farouk; and failing that none had put on their thinking caps to ask themselves if Farouk’s right — namely the right to be presumed innocent of the charges — were being violated.
Funding smuggling and money laundering from BDCs
In the wake of the recent Central Bank’s pseudo liberalization of dollar supply to the foreign exchange market, naira rate tumbled from over N140=$1 to today’s rate of about N130=$1 in the black market, leaving a spread of just about N2 from the official rate.
Women journalists pray for Yar’Adua, Maryam
By Ola Ajayi IBADAN—National Association of Women Journalists, NAWOJ, yesterday organized an inter-religious prayer session for the quick recovery of President Umaru Yar’Adua and the repose of the soul of the former First Lady, Mrs. Maryam Babangida. The programme which held at the Millennium Press Centre, Iyaganku, Ibadan, had in attendance previous Speakers of the […]
