Opinion
21 Aug 2015
RATHER than issuing from some mysterious invisible force, the “resource curse” is to a large degree the product of greed and the disparities in leverage between rich and poor.
21 Aug 2015
Continued from yesterday THE thinking is gaining ground, albeit insidiously, that in arriving at their decisions, judges are influenced by their political affiliation, prejudice or filthy lucre.
20 Aug 2015
THE Nigerian workers are in dire straits denied of their slave wage by the Nigerian ruling class. According to the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) sources, about 22 states of the federation are in this loop.
20 Aug 2015
IN 1981, I had just left secondary school when for the first time I had the opportunity of getting close to Mr. Olasuji Lawson Olu Adeboye. Although I had heard numerous stories about him, his wealth and his doggedness.
20 Aug 2015
OF the four pillars of freedom (law, liberty, representative government and an impartial administration of justice) law is primus inter pares being the first to be established and it being the underlining framework within which the others can thrive or have their being or existence established.
20 Aug 2015
WITH the contemporary world racked by a phalanx of challenges that require urgent solutions, it makes a huge sense to dispense with any cultural practice that does not redound to the development of the human race
20 Aug 2015
THE waxing dollarization of the Nigerian economy is unacceptable. However, because its occurrence is traceable to the entrenched federal fiscal and monetary policies, the public should not be led to believe that the CBN can eliminate it by egging on deposit money banks (DMBs) to refuse lodgement of foreign currency cash in domiciliary accounts
19 Aug 2015
DISCUSSIONS about the fate of Africa have long had a cyclical quality. That is especially the case when it comes to the question of how to explain the region’s persistent underdevelopment.
19 Aug 2015
THE directive by President Muhammadu Buhari to the Federal Ministry of Environment (FMoE) the other day to revert to a 1920 report on the Lake Chad for solutions to the water body’s endemic problems underscores the worry over the lake’s near extinction, with possible catastrophic human and ecological outcomes.
19 Aug 2015
WORLDWIDE, stock markets rest on a tripod of information, transparency and integrity. While transparency and integrity engender investor confidence, information drives the stock market. And such information could border on the fundamental, or technical, and sentimental.
19 Aug 2015
WHAT should advisedly be the thrust of fiscal policy as we await the full take-off of President Buhari’s administration to complement monetary policy in view of the existential challenges that currently confront the nation? My answer is that we should go for a policy that would attempt to deliberately reflate the economy and risk an increase in price levels as we do so.
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