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Afew days ago, at the Africa Pension Summit organised by the National Pension Commission (PenCom) in Abuja, Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna made some interesting comments about interest rates in[…]
Your correspondent is back in Blighty after a tour of Nigeria that took in Abuja, Kaduna and Lagos. Here be findings 1. I have good news to report! When I landed[…]
I like President Buhari. I remain a fan of the man. That said, for someone like me who believes in smaller government, I have always known that supporting Buhari carried[…]
VP Osinbajo in Zambia to commission Dangote Cement plant tomorrow, African economic integration in progress. — Laolu Akande (@akandeoj) August 3, 2015 Apologies if you do not share my irritation[…]
Mr. Wang Qishan is a member of China’s seven man Politburo Standing Committee – sort of their equivalent of Nigeria’s FEC. He is also the Secretary of the Central Commission[…]
Your correspondent managed to be in 3 cities in about a week. Wherever there are Nigerians, there will be stories to tell. (Previous editions of TWOTS can be found here).[…]
“No one has the right to retain money that should come to the federation account. Constitutionally, it should come and then , if expenses are legitimate, they should be presented[…]
“Friends and countrymen; I beseech you by the mercies of God that ye do whatsoever it is within thine powers to prevent a frolic between the yam and the goat.[…]
I don’t mean to flog a dead horse but I think there might be an economic lesson in the recent furore over the Oba of Lagos’ comments. In particular, I’d[…]
Mr President, I really don’t understand what it means to ‘stand on existing protocol’. Nevertheless, I will go ahead and stand on existing protocol. 1. On the day that Deng[…]