THE Central Bank served an advance notice of the introduction of a N5,000 note as well as the redesigning of the existing currency profile; under the proposed arrangement, six of the denominations i.e. N5,000, N1,000, N500, N200, N100, N50 will remain in notes form, while N20, N10, N5, N2, N1 and 50K will circulate as coins.

Vanguard Conference Hall is the highest interactive editorial platform for public policy enlightenment, advocacy and solution delivery. It offers public office holders, civil society groups, academicians, opinion leaders and corporate chiefs, the arena to debate and exchange ideas for good governance. In this edition, the topic for discussion is entitled: “Fuel subsidy and the ethical deficiencies in public office in Nigeria.”

If I were to interpret this further, I might assert, can the Niger Delta region succeed without controlling their resources? The poser can be expanded. Can Nigeria succeed without controlling Niger Delta resources? I shall provide my perspectives in the course of this presentation.

THE situation in the country where many Nigerians are down on the poverty line as a result of unemployment and rising inflation is bad enough; adding additional burden of price increase will hurt more.

WHEN the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN wanted to introduce the cash less policy its argument was that less than 10 per cent of the Nigeria population draws on the average that amount of money from the banking system thus placing the burden of cost of cash management on the banks and the CBN. Every entreaty to persuade the CBN out of it failed. The rest is now history.

SANUSI Lamido Sanusi, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, belongs to a small league of public officials – including Obasanjo, IBB, Jonathan, and now Okupe – whose pronouncements are guaranteed to provoke controversy.

Should Boko Haram be designated an FTO through this regime, it would be illegal for non-governmental organizations to interact with members of Boko Haram – even if the purpose of such contact was to persuade them to renounce violence.

It is exactly one year, today, 26 August, 2012, since the bombing of the United Nations (UN) building in Abuja which claimed several lives and shattered the peace of our country.

This is the concluding part of the abridged version of a recorded exchange during a Sub-committee on Foreign Affairs congressional hearing in America, with leaders of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, in attendance.

It marked the very second time in the history of terror in Nigeria that a suicide bomber would be used – the first being the attack on the Police Force Headquarters in Abuja.