Dare-devil armed robbers recently invaded a bank in FESTAC area of Lagos. Numbering over 40 and clad in military camouflage, they operated unchallenged for hours, carting away millions of Naira. Three lives were lost, including a mother and her toddler.

In true African culture and tradition, children are valued beyond silver and gold. It is one of the tragedies of “modernity” that children have now become “commodities” criminally bought and sold by evil rings of hustlers who operate what are cynically referred to as “baby factories”.

AT the recent Financial Times Africa Summit in London Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Mr Godwin Emefiele, defended his foreign exchange policy, which has tended towards administrative controls since the begining of this year. He had contended that the policy had so far ensured relative stability in the foreign exchange market and the value of the Naira against major world currencies.

A MAJOR talking point in the global media at the moment is the tragic but avoidable death of over 1,000 pilgrims in the Saudi city of Mina on September 24, 2015. They were among thousands of Muslims from different parts of the world who converged on the holy city of Mecca for this year’s Hajj.

ANXIETY over the economy has not abated even as both the Presidency and the Senate appear to be ready to put in place the federal cabinet and by extension the economic team of President Muhammadu Buhari’s government.