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By Nduka Uzuakpundu   If memory still serves Nigerians very well, they would recall that Muhammadu Buhari, the President of Nigeria, did promise them during his electioneering, in 2014, that he would slash the price of petrol to about N87.00 per litre from N145.00, for which it has sold since the era of the Goodluck Jonathan Administration. Nearly fours years ...

Former Edo Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, has called for a review of the Nigeria’s tax laws for an effective tax administration. Oshiomole, also a former President, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), made the call at the 26th Convocation Lecture of the Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH), Ikorodu. The lecture was entitled, “Crisis of Governance, Governance of Crisis : The Role of Education in ...

A media entreprenuer, Adebola William, says societies should start bridging the gender digital divide and drop the perception imposed by culture that women are not equal with men. William made the appeal at the 2018 Social Media Week Lagos, while discussing the topic: “Bridging the Gender Digital Divide: Young African Leadership Initiative (Yali) Leading the Way”. “There is a cultural ...

One of the running strings in the Nigerian economy, in nearly two decades of the Fourth Republic, is the rather ballooning debt profile. At nearly $12billion in foreign debt and N22billion in public debt, the forecast, by the best of economists at the Central Bank of Nigeria and some influential members of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) is that ...

The Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo, has said that Nigeria’s foreign policy must reflect the enviable feat that the country has attained in the entertainment industry and sports. Osinbajo made this known in his keynote at the Maiden Annual Foreign Service Public Lecture organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on Tuesday, in Abuja. He said that the usage of sports and ...

By Nduka Uzuakpundu As Nigeria’s economy eases, with guarded optimism, out of a deep recession, the development has tended to renew investors’ hope in the country. The crawl away from a two-year-long recession, up to 2017, was hit with a nation-wide petrol scarcity for nearly two months up to December, 2017. As some tidiness returns to the economy, hope, among ...

By Nduka Uzuakpundu President Muhammadu Buhari had a genuine cause, recently, to laud China for her rising investment in the country. China, he said, was a friend of Nigeria – and Africa, in general. At a time of a deep recession, between 2015 and 2017 – the first two years of the Buhari Administration – the economic indices of growth, ...

By Nduka Uzuakpundu The honest desire by the Nigerian government to find a durable solution to the spate of herdsmen-farmer bloody conflict, especially in the Middle Belt, has necessitated the idea of cattle colonies or ranches. This is a project in which owners of cattle – a majority of whom are Fulani – would have to settle with their animals ...

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has reported that out of a total active labour force of 85.08 million people in Nigeria, about 16 million people were unemployed in the third quarter of 2017. This was contained in a report on Labour Force Statistics in the third quarter of 2017 published on the bureau’s website, on Monday. The report said ...

By Nduka Uzuakpundu   “A huge national embarrassment, for which many heads should have rolled. Never in the annals of this political dispensation have Nigerians had it so bad.” Issa Aremu, a top official of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), couldn’t have put it any better. His opinion on the recent, nationwide fuel scarcity is a reflection of the views ...