Growth without relief: Nigerians cannot eat GDP figures
By IVO TAKOR By any reasonable measure, an economy that is growing while its people are becoming poorer is an economy that has failed to deliver justice. This is the contradiction staring Nigeria in the face today. Government officials may point to improving growth figures, better macroeconomic indicators and signs of economic recovery. Economists may […]
Aviation after Oduah
THE departure of Princess Stella Oduah as the Aviation Minister brings to a screeching halt one of the most controversial careers in Nigerian public service.
Laurel for Nigeria’s debt management acumen
ACUMEN has been defined as a sharpness of mind; the ability to make quick, accurate intelligent judgements about people or situation”. Intelligent judgement is exactly the story behind Nigeria’s Debt Management Office, DMO, decision to issue a $1 billion Eurobonds in the International Capital Market, ICM, last year despite the risk the pronouncements of US Federal Reserve tapering of the Quantitative Easing, QE, may have on the pricing of the bonds at that particular time.
Much ado about chartered jet
THERE’S a sense in which the larger chunk of what has been written about the use of a chartered jet by the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, mirrors the challenges affecting public discourse in Nigeria. The matter is being pursued by all sides more with emotion than substance and a clear grasp of the crux of the issue.
Why Jonathan has a right to second term
IN his words of wisdom, John Caldwell Calhoun (1782-1850) said: ”The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.” Describing one of the invaluable attributes of a great leader, America’s foremost activist President, Theodore Roosevelt, believed that: ”The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men [and women] to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”
World Malaria Day: Invest in the future, defeat malaria
As death bears its fang again, question is: ‘Who will die in the next second as we read this? Every 45 seconds, a child in Africa dies of Malaria – according to Prof. Chinedu Chukwu the Hon Minister of Health! As we celebrate the World Malaria day on 25th April, the introduction of “Technology to Fight Malaria” may have accelerated the hope to save more lives – more than ever before. The theme for 2014 and 2015 is: “Invest in the future. Defeat Malaria”. It is estimated that with the newly developed Malaria Destroyer Game (MDG), Nigeria can resolve her colossal malaria by 50% in the shortest possible time in compliance with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
