Forex fight: CBN governor versus san
VANGUARD, OCTOBER 31, 2023.This news report on the last day of October brought an end to a dreadful month for those charged with managing the Nigerian economy – especially its exchange rate – as well as the rest of us; whose lives are now totally controlled by the dollar. For people like me who remember better days, now looking like fairy tales, the decline of the Naira has been a painful experience. After a preliminary visit to Nigeria in December 1973 to January 1974, I finally decided to return home finally.
Indigene, non-indigene in Igbo land? Tufiakwa!
LAST August the Governor of Abia State, Chief Theodore Ahamefula Orji issued an order sacking so-called non-indigenes from the public service of Abia State.
Touched by the loss of Jobs
THE world was thrown into mourning last week Wednesday October 5, 2011 by the death of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Inc at the youthful age of 56. Even at that youthful age, it seemed as if Jobs had always been with us since the beginning of time. His contributions at that age gave him the timelessness that wealth or political power does not confer on ordinary mortals.
Time for sober reflection
EVERY Independence anniversary provides us an opportunity to look back and reflect on our journey as a nation.
We brought this woe on ourselves
In recent times, we have been lamenting the dismal results released by the West African Examination Council, WAEC and the National Examination Council, NECO. Members of the House of Representatives considered the matter of grave national importance that it tabled it for debate on the floor of the House.
Dangling dangerously on a precipice
ON Sunday September 11, 2011, the United States of America, and indeed, the world, marked the 10th anniversary of the dastardly terrorist attacks by Al Qaeda on New York City and Washington DC in 2001.
