Business & Economy

What Happened To Nigeria’s $20 Billion?

Nigeria is subliminally going through perilous times. Unfortunately, the factors responsible forthese conditions are dangerously explained away politically. The people are hit by mute...

Banks Are Not My Business

Whenever I see any bank and the ill-assorted characters called bankers in their foppish coats I suffer an extravagance of laughter. The Poet does not...

How Decisive Monetary Policy Is Powering Nigeria’s Economic Resilience and Growth

In an era marked by global economic volatility, few nations have demonstrated strength and foresight of Nigeria’s Central Bank and its Monetary Policy Committee...

Global Economic Crisis: Nigeria and National Strategy

The recent $850 billion bail-out plan by the Bush Administration indicates that the economic principles that we all crammed in high school are no longer tenable in a world where the excessive consumption patterns of specific economic blocs create panic and throws quaint economic theory in the bin...

Strengthening Nigerian Economy Beyond Oil Revenue!

It is time we stop having others come and tell us about ourselves, the Niger Delta issue, our plants, lands, animals, genes, diseases, health, drugs, etc. The numerous problems facing us must be dealt with by Nigerians to benefit Nigerians...

Building a Homegrown Economy: The Politicians' Energy or The Public’s Synergy?

In order to answer the question where do we as a nation go from here we must honestly ask ourselves where we are now...

Building a Successful Business From Web Trends

The way business is done today is quite different from what it used to be several years ago. Successful businesses that have stood the test of time are those that have always followed the trend...

Nigerian Banks, ATMs and Customers: Matters Unending

While it is well understood that banks are not non-profit making outfits, banking should albeit be practised in a very professional and idealistic manner. Nigerian banks should desist from continuously devising means of ripping their unsuspecting customers of their deposits in trickles...

Basic Principles that Guarantee the Success of Your Online Business

These basic principles of online business are the bedrock on which a successful online business is built...

Managing And Maximizing Your Business Website

It is a common feature in Nigeria to see businesses not having websites. The ones that have do not maintain them...

Mastering The Skills Of Effective E-Marketing

The internet will be maximized for business purposes here in Nigeria when it is viewed as a marketing medium which has the advantage of instant interactivity and response...

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Edo State, Osunbor And The Restituted Seat Of Power!

We have sympathized with Oserhiemen Osunbor. It is unfortunate that as a law professor, he is unable to read and understand the March 20th tribunal’s judgment that was delivered live on radio and television against his "mandate" in Edo State government House...

India, Ile Ife and Africa

There are  strange developments between Nigeria and India, particularly...

CBN, nationalised banks and investors

Numerous stakeholders in the financial industry and Nigerians in general have well-observed over time, that Malam Sanusi’s carefree and occasionally inconsistent policy pronouncements on certain burning fiscal issues concerning Nigerian and foreign investors alike, leave much to be desired...

Mike Okonkwo Essay Competition: A Vision Without Borders

I never knew how similar my experience was to other winners of the Mike Okonkwo Essay Competition for Secondary Schools until I had the opportunity of meeting some past winners for the first time recently in Lagos...

What is inside the pack…?

Experts and ordinary Nigerians worry about how their foods and medicines are being packed by food processors...

Welcome Team Nigeria

It is debated in intellectual circles that the current group of leaders has also failed to start.  If that is true, could we not start again?  If you were given great land mass, lots of sunshine lots of disparate people groups, plenty of mineral resources to work with, what would you do?

Before we Plunge into Granting State Police

In the wake of the restive agitations by Nigerians...

Ninety Garlands for Sam Amuka @ 90

The iconic publisher of Vanguard newspapers, Sam Amuka-Pemu, is...

Corruption A La Carte

“What is the problem with us Nigerians? We have...

Dictatorship of Mediocrity

How I wish that Nigerians would pay heed. We are the masters of our destiny. If we want the leadership to keep on raping us, and carting our resources off to their private estates, it is our choice...