Tackling Pension Robbers

The battle by the Federal Government to stem pension fraud and restructure, reform and sanitise the pension office of the civil service is threatened as officials of the pension reform

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Striking Deals

The Nigerian Stock Exchange beats labours directive to abandon businesses during the national strike as it operates skeletally via remote trading No No doubt, the national strike called by organised

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Insight: Nigeria Counts Its Losses

 Nigeria reels in losses caused by the national strike called by organised labour and activists   [caption id="attachment_9852" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Nigeria's busiest port, the Apapa port, was shut during the strike."][/caption] For the ...

Cash-Lite Lagos Debuts

 The Cash-Lite currency policy of the Bankers’ Committee debuts last week with the pilot project in Lagos State   [caption id="attachment_9769" align="aligncenter" width="495" caption="A Lagos market scene: Central Bank of Nigeria officials ...

Rage Of Sea Bandits

 Nigeria and Benin Republic join forces to fight escalated pirate attacks on West African coast   [caption id="attachment_9765" align="aligncenter" width="495" caption="A Nigerian Navy rating on an offshore patrol craft, NNS, Burutu."][/caption] Last month, ...

Jonathan appoints 2 committees to handle subsidy fallout

[caption id="attachment_9684" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="President Jonathan: now the subsidy headache"][/caption] Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has constituted two committees to handle some issues arising from the removal of the N1.2 trillion subsidy ...

Taking CBN To Islamic League

As the controversy surrounding the proposed Islamic Bank rages on, Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria moves to make the apex bank a member of ...

Roadblocks To Rice Sufficiency

Federal Government’s resolve to ban rice importation early next year is considered a right but hasty move Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Akinwunmi Adesina, is irked about the country’s ...

Hitting It Big Ushering

Doing the usher at events is a viable strategy to overcome unemployment Necessity is the mother of invention. As the financial challenge in Nigeria bites harder, many people have been deploying ...

Lagos’ Latest Mall

[caption id="attachment_9553" align="aligncenter" width="495" caption="•The new shopping mall. Inset: Gov Fashola declaring it open."][/caption] Shoppers on the Lagos Mainland get a more convenient way of shopping with the opening of the ...
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