Governor Oborevwori and the triangular tide
By: Enewaridideke Ekanpou A tide is a tide anywhere but a tide assumes connotative colours when it becomes triangular in built and action. Like a cumulonimbus cloud endowed with both positive and negative potentials, there must be something hidden behind a triangular tide.There must be something equally iconographic about a triangular tide too when viewed […]
Chimamanda and the price for fighting Injustice
First and foremost, let me forewarn readers that views expressed here are entirely mine.
Aggressive pursuit of economic growth and development
The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has been aggressive with initiatives in the pursuit of economic growth and development, especially in the agriculture sector and local manufacturing. It is using both development finance initiatives and interventionism in the pursuit and it is expected that the efforts of the apex bank will be complemented with the anticipated initiatives of the newly constituted Economic Advisory Council, EAC
Reversing the ugly trend of outsourcing in Nigeria
OUTSOURCING, a word that came from the phrase: “outside resourcing”, became a key part of international business economics in the 1990s. Wikipedia defines it as” an agreement in which one company hires another company to be responsible for a planned or existing activity that is or could be done internally and sometimes involves transferring employees and assets from one firm to another”.Sub-contracting is the practice of assigning or outsourcing specific parts of the obligations and tasks under a contract to another party known as a subcontractor. Outsourcing is prevalent in strong-matrix environments where complex project planning, execution and monitoring are norms. Business processes, people and projects are what companies seek to outsource.
Everything in Life is Impermanent
Different events in life follow one another. The termination of one event ushers in the beginning of another – a phase off and a phase in, a point of ascension and a point of descent, a cause and effect pattern, a point of departure and a point of termination in every cosmological and ontological process. Your waking up in the morning terminates your all night sleep/rest and ushers in daybreak of activity in your life.
Still on VAT increase and matters arising
That the recent announcement of the proposed increase in the Value Added Tax rate from five per cent to seven-and-half per cent is generating ripples and knocks is not unexpected. The concern of those opposed to the increase, including this writer, does not only border on the rate of the increase (which is 50 per cent), but also on the justification given by the government for its proposal.
