By Adesina Wahab Nigeria’s economic challenges: The President of the Institute of Productivity and Business Innovation Management, IPBIM, Mr Remi Dairo, has said applying the necessary innovation into how we do certain things in the country can help solve the national economic challenges being faced now. He stated this in Lagos during a seminar held […]

The National Council of Women Societies (NCWS), says it has concluded arrangements to honour female ministers and legislators who were serving as torchbearers for other female politicians in the country. Dr Jumai Ahmadu, an official of the body, made this known in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. She said that NCWS President Gloria Laraba […]

By David O Royal The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide has assured to produce presidential candidates from the South-East who are in the same pedigrees of the likes of Dr Nnamdi Azikwe and Chief Samuel Mbakwe, who sees entire Nigeria as his Constituency. This was disclosed in a statement issued by its president general, Mazi […]

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari recently constituted a high-calibre Presidential Economic Advisory Council, EAC, chaired by Dr Doyin Salami, former adviser to the IMF and, for eight years, a member of the Central Bank’s monetary policy committee, with other members, including Professor Chukwuma Soludo, former CBN governor. For a president who largely shunned economic technocracy in his first term, and who only recently appointed an entirely political cabinet for his second term, this was a pleasant surprise.

…says Nigeria must look beyond oil Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Wednesday called for urgent diversification of the Nigerian economy to lessen national reliance on crude oil, saying the country must invest in agriculture and small and medium scale enterprises. “The theme of your study tour —Economic Diversification and National Development in Nigeria —is […]