The previous week we mentioned that since Nigeria obtained an International Monetary Fund loan in 1986 with the accompanying structural adjustment programme for the economy, our earnings from crude oil sales and non-oil exports have not been adequate to meet our foreign currency requirements. We asked what we could do to remedy the situation.

Nigerian shareholders under the umbrella body of Proactive Shareholders Association of Nigeria, PROSAN, have been selected by World Federation of Investors, WFI to represent the country at its world’s conference slated to hold in Italy.

I n the developed worlds, technology enables people to carry their whole world in a plastic card called the digital wallet. This wallet will identify, aid bills payment of individual carriers among other things. Having attained a relatively greater height in technology, the Nigerian government felt Nigerians are due for this and started a process of electronic Identity management which has seen Nigerians and legal residents in the country issued a National Identification Number NIN.

A petroleum dealer with NIPCO Plc., Mr. Adepoju Kayode, yesterday, commended President Muhammadu Buhari’s ongoing reforms in the oil industry, which he said will bring stability to the economy.

Oh, I like President Muhammadu Buhari’s leadership style, leading by example, walking the talk,” said Paul, a commuter in an Apapa-bound bus.

The National Association of Nigerian Students [NANS] is in support of chief Segun Odegbami’s ambition to become the next FIFA President.

The downward trend of resources available to the nation has continued to reflect in the current economic realities as the three tiers of government yesterday, shared only N 441. 606 billion as revenue generated in the month of August.

If death were to be a kidnapper and had placed a hefty ransom on Chief (Mrs.) Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo, there is no doubt it would have been readily paid so that the nonagenarian and the only surviving matriarch of the Awolowo dynasty will live longer than her 99 years.

Experts have identified some of the various solutions to solving major problems often faced by family businesses towards succession and sustainability. This was the highlight of the inaugural public lecture in commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the corporate existence of S. E. Nomuoja & Co. as Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, at NCA House, Alausa, Ikeja , Lagos recently.

THE All Progressives Congress, APC, has condemned the attack on the party’s Deputy Governorship candidate, Chief James Faleke in Ayetoro Gbedde, on Sunday.

The Federal Government, yesterday, docked the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, sitting in Abuja, on a 13-count criminal charge that bordered on corruption, false declaration of assets, and illegal operation of a foreign bank account while in office as a public servant.

The rapid strides that has been made lately due to recent technologies has helped in making the world become more of a global village. You can now reach almost anyone on planet earth that has access to the internet via social networking websites. As we embrace these technologies, it is important to maximize its potential by placing more emphasis on the networking potential of social media websites.

ABEOKUTA—The Commissioner of Police Ogun State Abdulmajid Ali has announced amnesty for cultists in the state, urging those involved in the act to renounce their membership and drop their arms .

A witness from the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Abuja, Ibrahim Sanni Mohammed, yesterday, stunned the National Assembly and House of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Lokoja, Kogi State when he said the commission monitored the conduct of Kogi West senatorial primary election of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

LAGOS—Two men parading themselves as officers of the Nigerian Army have been nabbed and charged to court for impersonation.