AS the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, gets set to execute President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive on restriction of foreign exchange for importation of agro-food items, we draw attention to issues that should be of utmost importance in the collective interest of Nigerians.

GOVERNORS elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have thrown their weight behind the party leadership’s decision to challenge Wednesday’s judgement of the Presidential Elections Petitions Tribunal, PEPT, that threw out the petition of Atiku Abubakar, the party’s 2019 presidential candidate.

AFTER the end of the Second World War, WWII, Europe faced several problems, these included economic and political. France worried of a resurgent Germany, economically and militarily, Soviet Union threats and the unfolding Cold War. Thus for Europe to overcome these challenges, it led to the process of the establishment of the European Communities in the 1950s, such as the European Coal and Steel Community, ECSC, the European Economic Community, EEC, and the European Atomic Energy Community, EURATOM, that dovetailed into the European Community, EC.

By Henry Boyo THE latest widespread currency of the word, Xenophobia, in September, 2019, is, arguably, instigated by media reports of the looting and burning, of several shops, allegedly, owned in South Africa, by foreign nationals, primarily from Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Somalia and Ethiopia. Incidentally, xenophobia is defined as “dislike of, or, prejudice against people from […]

President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, yesterday, dispatched three special envoys to Nigeria and six other African countries to deliver messages of pan-African unity and solidarity, following xenophobic attacks in South Africa.