ECONOMISTS have long found Nigeria to be something of a conundrum. The macro picture has always appeared compelling – large population, oil reserves, mineral reserves, endless tracts of arable land, land and sea borders for regional domination. Indeed the absurdity of our underperformance is only surpassed by our ability to accurately quantify our losses and missed opportunities.

THE first female Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Mrs Jumoke Akindele and her Deputy, Mr Fatai Olotu have been impeached.

Delta State Government has engaged a consultant to carry out a feasibility study on Monorail Transit System in Asaba, the state capital, as it restated its resolve to sell the Independent Power Plant, IPP, project in Oghara, Ethiope West Local Government Area of the state.

It will no longer be business as usual for the various Teaching Hospitals and training institutions in the country as the newly appointed President of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, NPMCN, has vowed to deal decisively with training institutions that fail to comply with accreditation standards.

THE Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) has shut two companies for alleged failure to remit a N4.01 million Personal Income Tax of their employees to the state government. Mrs Ajibike Oshodi-Sholola, Head, Distrain Unit of the LIRS, said this after a state-wide tax law enforcement in Lagos on Tuesday.