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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[…]
In search of further evidence of how conflicted Nigeria has become, one could do no worse than point at the recent machinations at the National Assembly. The immediate tension in[…]
There has been a lot of discussion on Nigeria’s auto policy and the success (or failure) of it. The whole debate has been spurred by the recent announcements by Nissan,[…]
Once the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) opted to put off by a couple of days the planned meeting of its rate-setting committee (the Monetary Policy Committee ― MPC) in[…]
The difficulties which provincial governments have had with paying public sector salaries since the mid-2014 collapse of global oil prices is a multi-themed parable. On one hand, there is the[…]
Economics as a subject could be pretty recondite. Try making sense of the numbers off a regression analysis, for instance. In addition, it has not helped that mathematicians and others[…]
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[…]
In hoping, several months back, that the elections this year would lead to a change of guards at the centre, most Nigerians were responding (in part), it now seems, to[…]
After the euphoria that characterised the inauguration of a new federal government last Friday, and the partying that would have marked its immediate aftermath, attention gradually turns to the design[…]
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).[…]