Presidential system wasteful —ANYAOKU

ABEOKUTA—Former Secretary – General of Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, yesterday described the presidential system being operated in Nigeria as wasteful and called for a return to regional system of government where the country would be ran along six geo - political zones.
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Ebola, Lassa fever and the bush meat connection

‘Stop eating bush meat!”Anyaa Vohiri, Executive Director of Liberia’s Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, warned on the heels of the outbreak of the deadly Ebola Hemorrhagic fever in the West African country. In a terse statement, the health official highlighted the connection between the Mano River countries and danger of the bush meat trade to lives of animals and humans in the region.

Statistics: GDP Rebasing’ Excludes the Value of Domestic Work

The word ‘rebasing’ has been added to the already colourful Nigerian vocabulary, after a team of world class economists reassessed the Nigerian economy and updated Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures to include new sectors of the economy including the telecommunications value chain , the film industry (Nollywood) amongst others, with the conclusion that Nigeria has now Africa’s largest economy.

Is your password really secure?

Sites all over the world try to convince you that your password is safe with them. With high tech software protecting your privacy, you haven’t had much reason to doubt this. But what happens when software developed to protect passwords becomes compromised?

Corruption and Chop-I-Chop in Nigeria

IN Nigeria, we cannot say that we are a bad people or corrupt people because we all greeted the government of Generals Muhammadu Buhari and Tunde Idiagbon in the late 1980s. Nigerians started queuing up for things and waiting for their turn.

Time to audit banks’ 2009 stress test

SANUSI Lamido Sanusi realised how gullible Nigerians can be and that we love to bay blood. After alerting bank customers that banks are about to collapse and they would lose their monies if nothing is urgently done, he carried out a stress test on banks to determine those that will collapse if nothing is urgently done, and pronounce some bank CEOs guilty of stealing depositors funds.

The condition of the nation: Poverty and insecurity

THE statement that Nigeria is a poor country has become an axiom and that majority of Nigerians wallow in abject poverty is no longer news. The fact is that the Nigerian authorities at all levels have resigned themselves to the salient fact and are thus immersed in seeking remedy, howbeit, ineffective to confront the menace. It must be agreed that the Nigerian colourful bird is from the patient specie – waiting without struggle until it is roasted.

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