economics
7 Nov 2022
I have listened to the speech of a famous politician repeatedly where he said, “recruit 50 million youths into the Army.
22 Aug 2022
Julio Frenk Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, United States, Muhammad Ali Pate, has made recommendations on how to reshape African health
14 Jun 2022
Grooming Centre recently launched a photobook, Stories of Impact: Real Women, Real Lives, Real Impact, at the Grooming Centre Hall at Ejigbo, Lagos.
23 Mar 2021
When the National Chairman of the Amalgamated Union of Food and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCON) Dr. Mohammed Tahir announced boastfully like a rainless thunder the closure
12 Sep 2020
A Nigerian student, John Pius-Obayemi recently puts the country positively on the global map, when he performed excellently well during the Cambridge Advanced Level. He came out of the examination, a three-star general, as he got three A-stars in Physics, Mathematics, and Chemistry. Surprisingly, Obayemi did not complete his secondary education from one of the…
14 Jul 2020
A move by the African Refiners & Distributors Association (ARA), and the African Union (AU), to ensure a common standard for the importation and refining of petroleum products
24 Jan 2019
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Enugu inaugurated an academic Centre of Excellence built by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) at the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus. Buhari said that the inauguration of the project became necessary following the desire of his administration to reverse the trend of dearth of infrastructure in Nigerian universities.…
13 Jan 2019
The immediate past Director of Claude Ake Centre for Governance, University of Port Harcourt, Prof Eme Ekekwe, is an expert in political theory and political economy. In this interview with KELVIN EBIRI, he argued that even though presidential candidates and their parties have outlined their programmes and policies, there were no clearly designed blueprints to…
10 Jan 2019
High blood pressure or rather hypertension is associated with stroke, heart disease, erectile dysfunction, kidney failure and sudden death. It is estimated that about 33 per cent of adult Nigerians are hypertensive. Several conventional medicines have shown promise in lowering and regulating blood pressure but they come at a huge cost. The patient may have…
26 Jul 2018
A lot of Nigerians have expressed their anger (and rightly so) over the planned disbursement of the $322 million recovered from the loot of the late Gen. Sani Abacha to 302,000 poor households in Nigeria. As the argument of those opposed to the planned disbursement goes, it appears unreasonable to just take out money and…
10 Oct 2016
British-American economist Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom of Finland on Monday won the Nobel Economics Prize for their work on contract theory, the jury said.
19 Jul 2016
There is more to life than grabbing, getting and receiving. It is greater blessing to give than to receive.When you give of yourself, the meaning of life is mysteriously revealed to you by this act.