Jonathan’s “mind your business”caution to governors
Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s warning to governors and political heavyweights who descended on Osun for the August 15 governorship election is worth attention. It is a reminder that Nigeria’s democracy cannot afford to turn off-cycle elections into jamborees for outside political forces. The spectacle was difficult to miss. The All Progressives Congress (APC) constituted a […]
Disposal of presidential jets
Since the return of democracy in Nigerian in 1999, Nigerians have consistently called for the reduction of the presidential air fleet.
Nigeria unserious about non-oil exports
MOST Nigerians say the only way out of this recession is to increase our non-oil exports. The Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) headed by Mr. Segun Awolowo, recently unfolded a Zero Oil Plan which it claimed has the potential of increasing non-oil export earnings to $30 billion over the next five years, adding that eleven strategic products for the export drive had been identified.
FG misses school feeding take-off target
Primary schools throughout Nigeria resumed for the first term of the current school year shortly after the Sallah holidays in September 2016, with many Nigerians eager to see the commencement of school feeding involving 5.5 million pupils nationwide.
Leveraging on prospects of oil price rise
THOUGH the outcome and impact of production freeze talks by members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) are yet to resonate fully we are already seeing positive signs indicating that, probably, the worst days of oil price-related economic crises are ending.
Return of 21 Chibok Girls
It came like a bolt from the blue on Thursday, 13th October 2016, when the news of the return of 21 of the 219 female students of Government Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State, who had been captives of their Boko Haram Islamist terror group abductors since April 14, 2014, unfolded.
