The Naira is officially a confused currency amongst others today, because nobody knows the actual exchange rate. One thing I want to state here emphatically is that at any time you have a dual exchange rate for any currency, it is an invitation to fraud. In Nigeria today, we have minimum of treble or quadruple exchange rates. It is very corruptible and fraudulent, it is very wrong.

The right and most suitable way out of the economic recession currently ravaging the Nigerian economy is formulation and implementation of economic policies that will strengthen the manufacturing sector and attract foreign investors both as Foreign Direct Investors (FDI) and Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPI). I take this position because, the manufacturing sector is critical to every economy across the globe and Nigeria’s case is no different.

Professor Dickson Enuma Ozokwelu a world renowned expert in Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy is a fellow of American Institute of Chemical Engineers, AIChE and Nigerian Society for Chemical Engineers, NSChE, a licensed professional engineer in the State of Tennessee, USA, has a PhD in Chemical Engineering and an MBA degree with concentration in Planning and Management.

A former Director General of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA), Prof Bola Akinterinwa, says the decision of the Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, to throw away his green card on January 20, 2017, when Donald Trump will be inaugurated the next US President, implies his (Soyinka) disavowal of racism, disorderliness, non-civilisation and the people who voted for Trump in the November 8 election. Excerpts of interview:

In university, Bryce Edem studied physics and other science-related courses. But while spending some years afterwards in the United Kingdom, he devoted more time to speaking to big audiences under the aegis of an international agency, TED, an acronym for Technology, Entertainment and Design, which was founded in New York in 1984 and has now spread to many parts of the world, including Calabar, the Cross Rivers State capital. Edem, who is the Licensee, Curator and Lead Organiser for TED Calabar, in this interview, explains how the group is influencing Nigerians to think big and positively even in difficult times that the nation has found itself.

From our own point of view, we remnants of Biafra are seeking judicial intervention or call it judicial translation, we want to know the stand of the judiciary over our claim that we have a right to answer any name that we feel and that the Federal Government has no right to deny us our human right to a name because we have a right to reject any name that the Federal Government might want to impose on us and that led to an unpleasant standoff position which we don’t want.

We are moving away from reliance on federation account, to more on self sustenance based on what we have. By the end of the year,

In a twist of events Nigeria’s indigenous multinational, Dangote  Group, bought back a subsidiary it had built and sold off. In this
interview, the Managing Director of one of the foremost flour, noodles and pasta producer, Dangote Flour Mills, Alh. Ahmed Yakassai, explained what happened, the results and impacts.

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, in this interview, lists measures to secure independence for local governments which, according to him, are being emasculated by state governments across the country.

The Chairman of the Nigerian Insurers Association (NIA), Mr. Eddie Efekoha in this Interview with Favour Nnabugwu in Abuja, talks about the problem of one price fits it all, the position of NIA on risk based capital and the plan to move the industry forward.
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Chief (Mrs) Calista Nkiru Adimachukwu (Mmilioma), National Women Leader, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, speaks on the regret, gains and expectations of Igbo people from President Gen. Muhammadu Buhari.

The General Overseer of Omega Fire Ministries Int’l, (OFM), Apostle Johnson Suleman, recently had the Onitsha Restoration Crusade in Anambra State. There was also the Tulsa, Oklahoma, United State edition, which came before the Anambra crusade. A charity agent, Suleman’s evangelistic mission, had taken the preacher to all the continents of the world.

Sir Victor Uwaifo is a house hold name when it comes to Nigerian music. He is a writer, sculptor, and musical instrument inventor. His evergreen songs include “Joromi” “Guitar Boy” and “Mummy Water” which made waves in the late 60s and 70s.

Nigeria has failed to develop because we abandoned the cheapest electricity power source. The cheapest electricity source of is coal. Nigeria’s Energy Mix is currently dominated by hydro (Water) and thermal (gas) but the country is yet to stabilise on 5000 Mega Watts, (MW) . It is strange that coal which we have in abundance is yet to find accommodation in our electricity generation.

Senator John Owan Enoh represents Cross River Central in the Senate. In this interview, Enoh speaks on President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption war and the efforts to rescue the economy, among other issues in the policy