SMEs’ lending without infrastructure ’ll engender another banking crisis – AMCON
The country will be faced with another round of banking sector crisis if the banks will continue to lend to the Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) with the present state of infrastructures and power, says Mr. Mustafa Chike-Obi, Managing Director, Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON).
Lyrical reverberations from the Diaspora
AN anthology of poetry, Reverberations Abroad, a 107 page book with a lovely gloss paper-back recently published by Authorhouse, United States of America, is a collection of poems which echoes the voices of some Africans who live and work outside the continent.
Counsel Corner: What if a woman is a rapist?
I read your publication, May 31, 2012 Law and Human Right’s column on rape. What about women that forcefully have sex with minors and men, is this not rape?
74 students sit for second stage Cowbell maths contest
Seventy-four students in the senior and junior categories have sat for the second and final stage of the 2012 Cowbell National Secondary School Mathematics Competition (NASSMAC) examination, last Saturday, in four zones pan-Nigeria.
Courts refusal to grant adjournment not denial of fair hearing (2)
An appellate court will not interfere with the exercise of discretion by a lower/trial cotirt simply because if faced with a similar application, it would have exercised the discretion differently. However, it may do so in special circumstances such as where the discretion was exercised on wrong or inadequate weight was given to relevant considerations or where the court acted under misapprehension of fact or that the exercise was tainted with some irregularities and in all other cases, where it is in the interest of Justice to so interfere.
Metu is Nigeria’s fastest man
Obinna Metu ruthlessly finished off his rivals to reclaim the national 100m title he surrendered to Ogho-Oghene Egwero for two seasons.
