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10 Apr
Legacy planning is a strategic and holistic approach to preserving and passing down one’s values, traditions, and assets to future generations.
9 Apr
Nigerian's politicians like many politicians in many countries are always in the pageant of promises, false promises to be exact. These promises often constitute the core of their election propaganda. For them electoral promises are like a pencil and eraser affair, you write it with a pencil and you erase it with an eraser.
9 Apr
Nigeria is a distinctive nation, renowned for its diverse array of cultures and abundance of natural resources; however, it is currently positioned at a pivotal juncture. Lately, it has been confronting several serious issues that threaten its stability and economic health.
9 Apr
And second instance, “This brings to mind a statement credited to Sir Charles Arden-Clarke, the Governor of Gold Coast (now Ghana); published in Accra on May 31, 1956, by the West African Pilot.
9 Apr
It is a pedestrian knowledge that Vice-President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Kashim Shettima some weeks ago inaugurated the 188-megawatt geometric power plant in Aba, Abia state, to accelerate power supply to industrial clusters in the region.
9 Apr
Consequent to the global inflation challenges, which have seen many economies battling with rapid or galloping inflation, it is imperative to take another closer look at the concept of replacement costs as one of the many alternatives deployed by sellers to edge against those associated with the phenomenon.
8 Apr
Last week’s inauguration of President Bassirou Diomaye Faye of Senegal, despite months of hair-raising suspense has renewed hope that democracy has capacity to replenish itself.
8 Apr
As part of its responsibility to examine the accounts and reports of Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government, the Bamidele Salaam (PDP)-led House Committee on Public Accounts in November 2023 initiated an investigation
8 Apr
Conceived in the 1970s, the Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline, TSGP, was to bear natural gas from Warri in the Niger Delta to Niger Republic, Algeria and Europe. On January 14, 2002, then Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC...
8 Apr
In this instalment, I relate to the recent presidential ban on foreign trips by ministers, heads of departments, and agencies, at the expense of government, for three months in the first instance.
8 Apr
Squealing to the discovery of petroleum, Nigeria has rapidly grown into a major food importing nation as the government has become neglectful of the agricultural sector since petroleum is considered a more viable resource for economic development
7 Apr
As I was saying before the electricity jumbo bill and other related bills came to compound our expenditure woes:
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