Can Agriculture Replace Crude? Experts reveal path to Nigeria’s export revival
By Cynthia Alo For more than five decades, crude oil has remained the dominant pillar of Nigeria’s economy, displacing agriculture from the position it once occupied as the country’s major source of revenue and foreign exchange. However, with the global shift towards cleaner energy and growing concerns over the sustainability of oil dependence, experts are […]
North gets lion share of N-Delta oil wealth – Ayemi-Botu,
I always remind people that in every bad thing, there is some elements of good in it, and in every good thing, there is some elements of bad too. What Abacha did was what Napoleon Bonaparte could not do, because he really felt it and he was in total sympathy with the people of the Niger-Delta.
North should leave 13 per cent derivation alone – Nabena
Well, they are at liberty to call for the review but they should leave whatever that has been agreed upon concerning the Niger- Delta and the oil producing states. The portion that is being given to us as 13 per cent was not something that came by accident.
North gets lion share of N-Delta oil wealth – Charles Ayemi-Botu,
The 13 per cent that we succeeded in getting couldn’t have come if not for the approval of the late military titan, Gen. Sani Abacha and it was fought for by the oil-bearing communities. We started by taking into cognizance that the oil-bearing communities have been shortchanged because when the country’s economic life was agriculture, the principles of derivation then was 50:50.
Aba comes alive again
ABA, the commercial capital of Abia State, popularly known as Enyimba City, was in the past not only the pride of Ndigbo but the former Eastern Region because of its strategic commercial and industrial position in the nation.
Cash less economy: It’s a threat to us -Traders, artisans speak
How will Nigerian politics be in a cash light or cash less economy where carrying of raw cash in ‘Ghana-must-go’ bags is the order of the day?
