The recent policy decision by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to stop official allocation of foreign exchange to some 41 items is a welcome development and must be pursued with vigour and transparency.
The recent policy decision by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to stop official allocation of foreign exchange to some 41 items is a welcome development and must be pursued with vigour and transparency.
the continued strike by workers of Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Owerri, Imo State, even after the Board of the hospital has ordered the stoppage of the process of privatizing some sectors of the operations of the hospital, is worrisome.
The sweeping indictment of some of Nigeria’s erstwhile military top brass for war crimes and possible crimes against humanity by the Amnesty International (AI) recently, is not only a distraction but a cynical indictment capable of denigrating and dampening the morale of the nation’s armed forces.
NEVER since the inception of the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) has the world’s football governing body been enmeshed in corruption allegations as has been the case in recent times.
Chairman of Dangote Group and Africa’s richest man, Mallam Aliko Dangote, has never hidden his passion for football.
The recent passage of the Tobacco Control Bill by the National Assembly which specifies, among others, the places cigarette smokers could smoke; areas where smoking is forbidden and also the punishment to be meted out to defaulters when they smoke in non-designated areas, is a good step in the right direction.
THE announcement April 25 by the Burundian ruling party, the National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD-FDD) nominating Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza as its candidate for the scheduled June presidential election was an aberration capable and has in fact set that nation in turmoil.
Now that the rains are here in parts of the country, it is predictable that there will be floods, the effect of which may be untoward.
Therefore, members of the public should be sensitive to the consequence of flooding by avoiding dumping of refuse into the drainage channels in order to curb it at the peak of the rainy season.
The price Nigeria has been paying for failure to meet demand of internal fuel consumption through sustainable supplies from the existing local four refineries is what has been playing out in the recurring fuel scarcity and high costs being visited upon the country.
The price Nigeria has been paying for failure to meet demand of internal fuel consumption through sustainable supplies from the existing local four refineries is what has been playing out in the recurring fuel scarcity and high costs being visited upon the country.