Everybody in Nigeria now says diversification is the solution to our economy. They add that agriculture holds the vital key to it. Few ask or offer any suggestion about how to achieve the goal and when we can expect results.

THE Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) presented annually by countries is designed to provide nations, especially the investment community and the international institutions – World Bank, International Monetary Fund, African Development Bank and others – more scope than the annual budget can afford.

While the politicians trade blames and ‘put forward self-seeking half truths and falsehoods as facts, Nigerians should have access to the unblemished truth and more importantly they need to know the options available to us while the recently declared recession lasts. After all, it is our lives they are toying with.

President Muhammadu Buhari flagged off the “Change begins with me” campaign last week Thursday, 8th September 2016, more than fifteen months after assuming power as an elected president. The main goal of the programme is to instill discipline and patriotism in Nigerians.

Economic recession is a merciless monster which devours just about everybody, especially the most socially and economically vulnerable. In just about every society in Africa, women and children constitute the most vulnerable, even in the best of times. They are, once again, set to be the worst-hit victims of the just confirmed recession.

The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) plans to subject aspiring recruits to a polygraph (lie detector) test in addition to the general background checks, biometrics, medical, physical, aptitude, oral and psychological tests.

One of the cardinal campaign promises of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was the provision of a broad array of Social Welfare Programmes (SWP) aimed at the most vulnerable segments of our society – the old, the unemployed, school children and others.

WITH  the current exchange rates, 70 per cent of Nigerians live on less than US$1 per day.  Too few Nigerians are able to obtain enough food to live healthy and productive lives, so it is no surprise  Nigeria is ranked the 14th  most hungry nation out of 119 countries and 152nd out of 187 on […]

Any economy is as strong as its banks. So, if this is “our worst possible time”, then no sector of the economy reflects our situation better than our banks. That many are hanging on the ropes is obvious. We will mention a few reasons they may be in this situation for a long time to provide food for thought for the Federal Government and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

THE deployment of arms and military operational machinery in the Niger Delta is a clear pointer to the imminent take-off of “Operation Crocodile Smile” aimed at securing the nation’s economic interests in the oil-rich region.