I think the factors on ground in the banking sector will be that if you look at where exchange rate is we are officially at N305/USD and parallel market is at N490/USD. And quite a number of banks have Dollar denominated risk assets on their balance sheet. The more we move towards a free floating of the Naira or devaluing of the Naira, the more it drags down their capital adequacy ratio.

But the President is the President of Nigeria and so all his movement must be known to Nigerians

Taking into cognizance the prevailing values and norms among the people in Nigeria and a call by some stakeholders for community policing in the country, a Nigerian scholar and researcher, Dr. Aminu Musa Audu said Nigeria’s value system and norms have been bastardised against the workability of community policing in the country.

Comrade Oladimeji Odeyemi is the President of the National Committee of Yoruba Youth (NCYY). A security expert, Odeyemi is also a member of Global Agenda Against Terrorism and a columnist with African Journal on Terrorism. In this interview, he lampoons the critics of the Buhari administration, especially on the fight against insurgency.

It is very painful that the ecological disaster occasioned by the effects of oil exploration  has wiped out the biodiversity of the listed communities along the Oloduwa River, and will also wipe out the entire ecosystem of the region

The common saying is Igbo don’t have kings but I think it is probably taking it literally not that we don’t have leaders

It may not have been a wrong doing under Jonathan but for an administration that claims anti corruption as its major mantra, the man should resign and if he refuses, the President should have asked him to step aside

Experience, I believe, is the soul of achievement that leads to excellence. I have been fortunate to attend institutions of higher learning that made a tremendous impact in my intellectual development.

CHIEF Andrew Oruh, a notable lawyer, businessman, and politician in this interview tells Vanguard that Nigeria cannot thrive without a formidable justice system that is based on equity. Oruh, whose business interests spread outside Nigeria noted that there are lessons the nation can learn from small successful economies in order to experience economic boom again.

The last may not have been heard on the long-drawn tussle on the ownership and control of the First Guarantee Pension Limited, a pension fund administration, PFA, company which formerly operated as First Provident Trust Limited and later as First Pension before approval was given for its present corporate name. The company has, in the […]