It’s cheaper to have marine insurance than get fined for defaulting — Leadway boss
In this interview, Executive Director, General Business, Leadway Assurance, Ms. Adetola Adegbayi spoke on why importers should have insurance for their cargoes.
Losses to e-fraud declines by 38%
THE Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said that losses to electronic fraud dropped by 38 percent to N406 million in two years.
One Lagos Fiesta to splash cash on talented youngsters
Lagos State Government pledged to give out cash prizes to talented youths in the areas of music, dance and comedy at the forthcoming “One Lagos Fiesta” scheduled to hold from Dec. 24 to Jan. 1, 2018.
Police wade into Lekki Property dispute
lagos—The crisis between the developers of Adiva Plainfield Estate located at Sapati in Ibeju-Lekki and the residents took a new turn weekend as officials of Mixta Africa, the developers of the estate, broke into the premises to commence work on the controversial church building that has pitched them against each other.
That people will have so little to eat
A BOY, about 12 approached my car as I stopped at a traffic light in Abuja. It was difficult to guess when last he might have had a bath. His bushy hair might not have felt the touch of a comb in a long while. When I looked more closely at him as he asked for alms, he was a beauty; like gold in a mud. I asked him his name. “Abdullahi.” His surname? “Abinchi.” That means food in Hausa. So I explained what I was enquiring. He replied: “Abinchi.” He was not smiling, so it wasn’t a joke. But I was convinced that could not be his surname. It might simply mean the reality he faces; hunger.
Obaseki: Projections of a new Nigeria political economy
BASED on my lifelong advocacy for labour rights, peoples’ power and the legitimacy of the media as the Fourth Estate of the Realm, I am historically obliged to be cautious of the hypnotic mantra of intemperate market-oriented economies. From my experienced co- facilitating role in peoples’ conventions for economic justice and independent media forums in Nigeria, Europe and America, I have come to the irrevocable conclusion on the genuine definition of development: that sustainable and equitable economic growth must be founded on paradigms that are people-centred — a strategy that synchronises economic statistics with careful consideration for mass social advancements. The welfare of people cannot be simply subjugated to the close-circuited reasoning and the sole abysmal calculations of ‘profit motives’- such notions and orthodoxy have proved disastrous even in the most-developed global economies in recent decades. Therefore, the issue of growth, the building of humane societies and inclusive economies, are far more exigent for me than the attachments and the tango of the two major political parties with the APC and PDP nomenclatures.
