Enabling legislation on bonds The Debt Management Office (Establishment) Act 2004 (CAP D12, LFN), the Pension Reform Act 2004 and the Fiscal Responsibility Act 2008 are the principal legislations that provide support to the Nigerian bond market.

“The newest member of the UN family was born today,” Mr. Ban told the Assembly after it passed the resolution setting up the new UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. “This is truly a watershed day,” he declared.

A FEW weeks ago, the relative cordiality that has existed between the Federal and State governments was punctured and the citizens’ attention drawn, albeit temporarily away from the robust debates that has been generated over the future of the country.

THE interpretation given to section 26 of the electoral Act 2010 (As amended) by the Imo guber tribunal has given judicial endorsement of staggerred elections by INEC. It is therefore, a recipe for electioneering disaster.

THE deregulation in the sector has created more jobs, increased government revenue and opened fresh vistas for profits. Like the telecommunication and aviation sectors, the cement sector has engendered positive multiplier effects on the economy.

As stocks are taken on 2011, the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, is one man who would certainly look back at the year with an understandable sense of fulfilment for acclaimed milestones and a political year well spent.

True confessions of the self styled Comrade Governor of Edo State, Mr Adams Aliu Oshiomhole recently that the demised President, Umaru Musa Yat’Adua calls for a lot of questioning and reasoning.

I sat in the chair waiting for my turn at the hair dressers w en the lady in the next chair looked at my hair and curiously asked me if I was going to re-touch my hair.

IT is trite to say that the issue of the planned deregulation of the down stream oil sector has generated controversy and even pitched proponents and opponents of the intended policy against each other. And while one appreciates some of the fears of opponents of the policy, one equally discovers that…

FOR some time now, the problem of insecurity which used to be one of the lowest in the hierarchy of social problems facing this country seems to have assumed alarming proportions since the end of the Nigerian civil war which ended in 1970.

THERE is enough evidence to empirically establish that Nigerian football is in disarray. For the first time since 1986, Nigeria has failed to qualify for the African Nations Cup finals.

THE mass killings of Christian faithful on Christmas day of all days when Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus, the symbol of Christiandom in the name of religious advocacy by the Boko Haram group is not only an action that must be condemned by all peace loving people, who value human life and civilized conduct but constitute a major threat to peaceful co-existence of people of different religious callings in Nigeria.

IT is likely that until about three months ago one had not heard the name Wael Ghonim. Ghonim was Head of the marketing division of Google in the Middle East and North Africa based in Dubai. But it was not as a Google executive that the Egyptian made name for himself and became world-famous.

THE Recent restoration of almost all the primary schools in Anambra State to the churches, their rightful owners, is bound to restore sound educational system, marked by enviable moral standards.

MY study and research of Nigerian history made it possible for me to extricate myself from the lingering grip of the Biafran propaganda, which still retains a powerful hold on most Igbo minds. It gave me a new perspective on Biafra and the civil war, a perspective, remarkably different from my earlier viewpoint shaped through the distorted prisms of the Biafran propaganda.