SMALL and Medium Enterprises (SME’s) are the engines of free enterprise economies. The SME sector leads others in employment generation and even sustains large-scale enterprises. All the blue-chip companies and multinational corporations we have today were once SMEs.

The adoption of Nigeria as the hub of Africa’s Centre for Disease Control (ACDC) is instructive. It followed the clearance by the African Union of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) to host not just the West African sub-regional CDC, but also the African CDC Regional Collaborating Centre, based on the quality and integrity of the health structures and facilities in the country.

Nigeria has for most of the Fourth Republic had the unenviable experience of having inexperienced persons as ministers of sports. However, it is arguable if a worse experience can be imagined than the present situation with the incumbent Minister of Sports, Mr. Solomon Dalung.

The 2016 budget has recorded a number of firsts in the history of Nigeria. It is the most controversial, the first in President Muhammadu Buhari’s Change Agenda, th first to be declared missing and the first to be highly padded. It is also the nation’s highest in norminal terms since independence and longest in the passage process.

WITH less than a year into his first four-year term in office, President Muhammadu Buhari is already being wooed and prodded to contest for a second term in 2019. Those championing this are some members of the national caucus of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and other interest groups within the party.