The case for a Nigerian oil reserve
The G7’s decision to release 100 million barrels from strategic stocks demonstrates what can be done to treat energy security as national security. Strategic stocks may include crude oil, refined products or both. Nigeria should understand the warning. A country blessed with substantial petroleum resources remains exposed to supply disruptions, volatile prices, weak refining capacity […]
RUGA by another name
ANOTHER round of tension is brewing in the polity following the announcement by the Federal Government that it is remodelling “grazing areas” throughout the country into ranches.
Protecting the CIFI from scammers
THE setting up of the Creative Industry Financing Initiative, CIFI, by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, in collaboration with the Bankers’ Committee to improve access to long-term low-cost financing to entrepreneurs and investors in the Nigerian Creative and Information Technology sub-sector, is both timely and a step in the right direction.
Need to control medicine peddlers
UNSUBSTANTIATED claims of potency of some medicines, both orthodox and traditional, to snare gullible buyers, have been proliferating in our society. The regulatory authorities, since the exit of the late Prof. Dora Akunyili, appear to have gone to sleep in their duties regarding this danger.
HIV/AIDS is still a serious danger
THIS year’s World AIDS Day was marked on Sunday, December 1, 2019 with the theme: “Communities Make The Difference”.
ASUU’s anti-IPPIS war
TOWARDS the end of the October 2019 deadline for all Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, of the Federal Government to ensure their staff were enrolled in the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System as directed by President Muhammadu Buhari, the battle line got drawn between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.
