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Infrastructure Corporation of Nigeria (InfraCo) is the latest effort of the government to deepen infrastructure development in Nigeria by financing public asset development, rehabilitating old assets, and constructing new ones. The initiative has the aim of raising $36.7bn with a seed capital of N1trn (about $2.6bn) coming from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the…
For keen observers of recent occurrences in the banking sector, it could easily be identified that the underlining issues were all linked to non-repayment of loans and poor servicing of credit facilities. The Central Bank Governor, in his speech to justify his intervention at FirstBank where he reinstated the Managing Director and sacked the entire…
The recent online video showing five secondary school girls from Lagos gleefully smoking certain narcotic substances called “Shisha” could be wrongly interpreted by many young people as the human imperative for freedom, exploration, and sometimes, youthful exuberance. Young people are said to learn such behaviour deficits from peer groups and what they see in the…
Nigerian elites have repeatedly pointed at poor leadership as the country’s biggest problem. One of the most recent comments on this issue and extensively dissected across the media was from the General Overseer of the Citadel Global Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare. In his presentation titled “The Conspicuous Handwriting on the Wall,” Bakare noted that the…
A few days ago, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) obtained an interim order from the Federal High Court, Abuja Division to freeze eleven bank accounts of five companies and one individual for 45 days. The order empowers the apex financial regulatory body to conduct investigations into suspicious activities including money laundering and illegal forex…
The month of April has been a turbulent one in government- workers relations. In at least three key sectors – health, judiciary and education – federal public sector workers have downed tools this month. It started with the National Association of Resident Doctors. The strike lasted for 10 days. As the tumult deteriorated, the Judiciary…
Recently, the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdurasheed Bawa, made a declaration that the Bank Employees Assets Declaration Act of 1986 would be resuscitated to block loopholes created by some bankers as the country looks forward to sanitise the financial system. Bawa made this disclosure shortly after a closed door meeting…
It was quite surprising to many listeners of a phone-in programme of a popular radio station in Abuja that food vendors were admitting on air that they still use paracetamol tablets to “soften” meat because it helps them to spend less on kerosene, cooking gas, firewood or charcoal. According to them, no matter the quantity…
The importance of research findings cannot be overemphasized. This was the crux of the message delivered by President Muhammadu Buhari last month, while declaring open the Five-Day Technology and Innovation Expo 2021 organised by the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology. With the allocation of about 0.5 per cent of GDP to research and innovation,…
Last Tuesday, a bill to establish the Nigeria Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) scaled its second reading at the Senate. The bill, which is aimed at promoting investments in the mining sector, is sponsored by a former Nasarawa State governor, Tanko Al-makura (APC, Nasarawa South). In the lead debate, Mr Al-makura said the legislation was in…
