| Mon 8 Feb 2010 |
Kaduna River to Get Another Bridge
All Africa The daily traffic congestion commuters experience in Kaduna State while trying to cross River Kaduna into the city centre would soon disappear. | ... |
Hot Air in NDIC
All Africa Succession crisis is rocking the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation. The NDIC is the country's apex financial undertaker and second only to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in significance within the banking sector's regulatory framework. | ... |
FG Committed to Transparency, Accountability - Finance Minister
All Africa Finance Minister, Dr. Mansur Muhtar, has reaffirmed the federal government's commitment to transparency, accountability and probity. | ... |
Lagos lives on dangers of petroleum tankers
Business Day Online Road construction to slash chunk of BAT | The traffic congestion and accidents caused by continued occupation of the roads by petroleum tankers could get worse in the near future as the ongoing expansion of the Lagos-Badagry Expressway will slash a c... |
Cheap Food in Nigeria
Business Day Online In the face of rising unemployment, inflation, fuel scarcity, stifled businesses due to drying up of bank loans, bad roads and lack of electricity, cheap food would go a long way to alleviate poverty and create room for quicker economic recovery in N... |
Oando gives shareholders opportunity to trade rights issue
Business Day Online …CEOs, analysts endorse offer | Shareholders of Oando plc who may not be able to participate in the ongoing Rights Issue of the company due to liquidity problems have the opportunity to trade their rights on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange... |
Slim hope for MFB funds from FG, states, NGOs gets obvious
Business Day Online … More poverty entrenched as infrastructure stays comatose | It is too easy to trace the problem facing the Microfinance Banks (MFBs) to their managers and sometimes, clients’ inability to service their loans as and when due. | In fact, only few ... |
Challenges facing real sector (3)
Business Day Online In the last two weeks, I have been discussing challenges faced by the real sector in the Nigerian economy. I have drawn attention to the importance of manufacturing and stressed the fact that it is a sector that has strong links with all other sector... |
Deregulating without conscience
Business Day Online Over the years, our fate is that of a people given to starvation inside cornucopia. Consider these: with plenty of oceans, rivers and streams we still lack potable water to drink; with a vast array of arable land, we have no food to eat; with plenty ... |
| Sun 7 Feb 2010 |
After the 6000 Mega Failure, What Next?
This Day Shortly after he was appointed Minister of Mines and Power by Chief Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999, late Chief Bola Ige did the unexpected by apologising to Nigerians on behalf of the federal government (FG) for years of blackouts. He had gone on to pledg... |
Deregulating the Downstream Sector (I)
This Day Deregulating the downstream sector of the petroleum industry in Nigeria has been a leading economic issue for over two decades now. Indeed, currently, no other public policy issue has generated so much debate and controversy as this subject. | This h... |
C’River: Towards Wealth Creation
This Day In retrospect, the year 2009 was a year of great challenges and opportunities for Cross River State. The golden course the Government was steering the State was jolted by a dramatic down spin in the finances of the State. True to type, th... |
Obama adviser: Stop criticizing anti-terror effort
The Examiner Comments WASHINGTON (Map, News) - An exasperated White House newly committed to preaching partisan peace slammed Republicans for playing politics on national security and making ignorant allegations about the investigation into the Christmas airliner... |
| Fri 5 Feb 2010 |
'The World vanishes in the South' - (Part one)
WorldNews.com Camus is losing himself in the south - His Arcadia: Summer, wind, desert, sun, the sea, simple being, the longing, science, society, friendship - and - humans. | Yes, humans - THEY were important for Camus. | Now, here the subject is not Camus, not a... |
Mimiko Tasks New Finance Commissioner On Revenue Generation
All Africa The Ondo State government is looking at the existing tax regime in the State to reduce dependence on monthly allocation from the Federation Account. | ... |
| Thu 4 Feb 2010 |
Law official: Airline bomb suspect flips on cleric
The Examiner Comments WASHINGTON (Map, News) - The Nigerian suspect in a failed Christmas Day airliner bombing turned against the cleric who claims to be his teacher and has helped the U.S. hunt for the radical preacher, a law enforcement official said Thursday. ... |
AP source: Christmas bomb suspect flips on cleric
The Examiner Comments WASHINGTON (Map, News) - A law enforcement official says the Nigerian suspect in the failed Christmas Day airliner attack has given up intelligence about a radical Muslim cleric hiding in Yemen. | Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (OO'-mahr fah-ROOK... |
Pentagon seeks billions to battle terror abroad
The Examiner Comments WASHINGTON (Map, News) - The Obama administration is seeking billions in budget increases to target terror threats from abroad, especially Pakistan and Yemen, with boosts for surveillance and attack drones, special operations forces and a ne... |
Pentagon seeks billions to battle terror abroad
The News & Observer | WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is seeking billions in budget increases to target terror threats from abroad, especially Pakistan and Yemen, with boosts for surveillance and attack drones, special operations forces and a new military cyber c... |
Coca-Cola Hellenic Results for the Year Ended 31 December 2009 (IFRS)
PR Newswire | FULL YEAR 2009 HIGHLIGHTS - Operating cash flow net of capital expenditure of EUR546 million for 2009, an increase of EUR284 million compared to 2008. - Volume of 2,069 million unit cases, 2% below 2008 (excluding the results of Socib S.p.A., volum... |
Rebranding Through Agriculture
All Africa Before the oil boom in the 1970s, Agriculture was the mainstay of the Nigerian economy. The three regions at the time leveraged on their comparative advantages to oil the wheel of the Nigerian economy. Each region had a unique selling proposition. No... |
Group Launches Enlightenment Campaign for Micro Finance Banks
All Africa The National Association of Microfinance Banks (NAMB) said in Lagos yesterday that it would embark on aggressive enlightenment campaign this year to erode majority of Nigerians' ignorance about the sector. | ... |
Importation - Oil Companies Demand Financial Security From FG
All Africa Even after paying over 90 per cent of subsidy owed oil companies, the Federal Government may still be far from addressing the protracted fuel scarcity crippling socio-economic activities across the country. | ... |
Why Fuel Queues Persist, By Wale Tinubu
This Day The Group Chief Execu-tive Officer of Oando Plc, Mr. Adewale Tinubu, has said that the reason for the persistent long queues at filling stations across the country in the last three months is the delay in payment of subsidy to fuel importers by the F... |
Legal and tax regulations for charities, trustees and NGOs in Nigeria
Business Day Online The separation of the Church from state political power has always historically being a matter of conflict and apprehension. The same could be said of Trustees and registered or unregistered charitable organisations, which are more popularly referred... |
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