THE news hit like a thunderbolt; people were shell shocked. It had never happened before; that a national election that had commenced was being postponed. This is what in aviation circle could be called an air return; an aircraft that had taken off having to make a return to the airport for emergency reasons. In fact, an emergency situation was what the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) characterised the situation.

THE grand charade called elections into the National Assembly, the first of the series of national elections lined for April, took place last weekend.

THE Allied Powers in the course of the war against the Axis Powers had a vision of the peace they hoped to harvest from the war and the arrangements that would secure the peace resulting from their successful prosecution of the war. The preamble of the Charter of the United Nations indicated this vision.

WE are still exploring matters arising as we rev up for the next round of the general elections 2011. Today, I want to examine issues surrounding the presidential debates, the decision of the Federal Government to deploy the Army to help maintain law and order during the elections and the controversy surrounding whether voters should vote and go or stay to witness the vote counting.

CBN Governors over the years have decried the incessant challenges of managing ‘too much cash’ in the economy.
This means that availability of cash reserves, particularly in custody of commercial banks, provides a strong platform to expand credit to their customers and further exacerbate the problem into that of ‘excess cash or liquidity’ in the system.