Independence address, endless promises no specifics
By Dele Sobowale Bayo Onanuga, the Senior Special Adviser to the President, accused critics of writing their responses without reading Tinubu’s address. That is certainly not true about me. In fact, the address was read to me by Uncle Sam, the Publisher of Vanguard, in his house – while asking for my comments on a […]
EU sets emergency summit for Thursday on migrant crisis
“I have decided to call an extraordinary European Council this Thursday to address situation in the Mediterranean,” Tusk said on Twitter on Monday, a day after Italian premier Matteo Renzi called for the meeting.
Nigeria without oil is now a reality
“Unsold Nigeria crude grows as buyer interest falls”. PUNCH, Thursday, April 9, 2015, p 41. The story by Femi Asu, went on to state that “Weak buying from Asia and other regular buyers of Nigerian crude oil has left a large overhang of March, April and May cargoes, it was learnt”.
The Awoniyi debate
I take time out, quite often to relive and relish the four years I spent as member of the NFF Technical and Development committee in the Aminu Maigari administration.
Naira/Dollar ATM cards and inexplicable profligacy
One cannot be certain whether Nigerians would celebrate or decry the recent Central Bank of Nigeria’s decision to reduce the existing limit on the usage abroad of Naira denominated cards from $150,000 to $50,000 per annum, per person. Nonetheless, the directive to banks in CBN’s circular of April 13,2015, may mean nothing to possibly over 98% of our country men, who have never seen the inside of an aeroplane.
Job creation records marginal growth
A total of 1, 219, 052 jobs were created in the Nigerian economy by both public and private sectors in the year 2014. The figures as contained in the latest estimate of jobs creation report of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) shows a marginal increase of 4.5 per cent against the total 1,163, 766 jobs created in 2013.
