THE PEF (M) B is funded by the Bridging Allowance and the National Transportation Average – which is jargon for saying that all petroleum marketers pay N6.80 per litre to the Fund for every litre imported into the country.

ON Tuesday, 19 April 2017, President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, announced that the President had suspended the embattled Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Mr. David Babachir Lawal and the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, NIA, Ambassador Ayo Oke, from office pending the conclusion of the job of a probe panel set up to look into allegations of corruption against them.

THOMAS Hardy, 1840-1928, great British writer, once said that “a pessimist is the person who looks at the worst possible contingencies.” (VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p 186). No Federal Government official has been plagued by more pessimists in the last two years, but especially since January this year, than Mr Emefiele, the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria.

While the military regime succeeded in suffocating most of the Student unions, it gave oxygen to the cultists who have now graduated into being political leaders winning ‘elections’ through the type of violence they perpetrated in the campuses

THE projections of the National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS) for the critical macro-economic catalysts of inflation, interest rates and liquidity for 2004, were evaluated against projections in Central Bank of Nigeria’s Monetary Policy Circular No.37, of February 2005 and the prevailing reality on ground.