Dollar hits 12-year euro high before Fed meet, Shanghai jumps
The dollar hit a 12-year high against the euro Monday, ahead of a closely watched Federal Reserve policy meeting this week, while oil prices fell again as US supplies continued to build.
You can’t trust elections
You cannot trust elections. At least not entirely. My first awareness about elections was when as a kid, I was told the story of how Jews were asked to vote between setting free Jesus Christ or Barabbas, a robber and murderer.
Thugs – Well, Alive
THUGS understand the business of violence. The boldness that has grown from not punishing them is evident in the havoc they are causing. They are appropriating space, the law watches, they are becoming the law.
Going back to school
By Paul Bassey As you are reading this, I am seated in the expansive and tastely furnished Aida Conference Hall of the Cairo Marriot Hotel. A quick glance around the hall that sits 101 other “African football students” I can see General Dominic Oneya, Dr Bolaji Oj-Oba, Mazi Amanze Uchegbulam and Samson Adamu. As Instructors, […]
Join the troops, say: “never again!”(1)
I HEARD it first when President Goodluck Jonathan visited our heroic and patriotic troops in the liberated communities in Nigeria’s northeast. “Never Again” appears to be the rallying battle cry in this second Nigerian civil war.
Bayelsa plans ‘regulatory shock therapy’ for oil companies—Commissioner
IT is not going to be business as usual for the oil multinationals operating in Bayelsa State if the current move by the state government to save the state troubled environment is anything to go by. Commissioner for Environment, Mr. Iniruo Wills, who is also Chairman, Bayelsa State Inter-Ministerial Committee on the Environment, weekend, led other stakeholders on a tour of the troubled creeks of the state and spoke on the administrative, regulatory and legal enforcement measures being proposed by the state government to compel environmental best practice by the petroleum industry and other major operators in the state.
Bank customers use payment cards to bypass forex laws
Bank customers have resorted to using electronic payment cards such as MasterCard and Visa card to circumvent foreign exchange regulations.
APC blasts PDP over abandoned Enugu Int’l Trade Fair
ENUGU — The All Progressives Congress, APC, weekend, took a swipe at the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,over Federal Government’s failure to construct the permanent site of Enugu International Trade Fair complex six years on. The federal government had designated Lagos,Kaduna and Enugu,International Trade Fair complexes but had completely constructed that of Lagos and Kaduna, leaving Enugu untouched. Spokesperson of APC in the South-East geopolitical zone,Mr. Osita Okechukwu, wondered why President Goodluck Jonathan should treat Ndigbo with levity.
OMG! Okorocha is Evil, By Morakinyo Olugbiji
Imo state governor, Rochas Owelle Anayo Okorocha in my opinion, has been one of the most talked about governors in the social media for a while now.
Mrs Jonathan urged women to ask Buhari what he did for women when he had opportunity to rule
Wife of the president, Dame Patience Jonathan has canvassed the support of women in the country for the re-election of her husband, Dr Goodluck Jonathan come March 28 presidential election, even as she praised Jonathan’s administration for upholding the 35 percent affirmative action for women in the country.
Why I will review govs, deputies’ severance package – Akele
LAGOS STATE Governorship Candidate of the National Conscience Party (NCP), Comrade Ayodele Akele,is not happy with the huge cost of governance in the state, which he said is hampering delivery of democracy dividends and abolition of poverty, the motto of his party.
