Reps indict CBN; seek review of 3 nationalised banks
THE House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee which investigated the near collapse of the Nigerian capital market has indicted the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, for the nationalisation of three banks and called for a review of the transactions.
Living with mass death
ON Thursday last week, our nation lost a little bit more of its humanity, after over one hundred people perished in a fire while scooping spilt petroleum from a crashed tanker. Exactly how many people died in those circumstances, in a State literally sitting on oil resources may never be known.
Gullible Nigerians
IT was a Monday morning during the peak traffic period along the Mile Two-Badagry road when out of the blues, a young man dressed in a pair of blue jeans trousers and T-shirt jumped right in front of this commuter bus and barked at the driver to stop. Everybody was confused because they could not pinpoint what the hapless driver had done wrong.
Cisco arms women with ICT solutions
THE global village phenomenon is increasingly being actualised, thanks to the growing video technology and Cisco’s resolve to ensure that Africa does not take the back seat in the development.
Hit-and-run victim needs N4.5 m for prosthesis, ear treatment
When 20–year-old Philip Akhigbe visited Vanguard’s Corporate Head Office in Lagos, not many persons who saw him as he walked into the visitors’ lounge had inkling what was troubling the young man. Not even this reporter initially understood why he required assistance.
Cop, 3 others killed in bullion van attack
LAGOS—Four persons including a police sergeant and two middle-aged women were, Tuesday, killed by a six- man robbery gang, who attacked a bullion van at Mowo Bus-Stop on Lagos- Badagry Expressway and carted away an unspecified amount of money.
