New technologies reducing oily diets health risks
The application of technologies in everyday life is growing worldwide as scientists’ keep on discovering more solutions. It is a well-known fact that too many fats and oils in your diet can increase one’s risk for a number of potential…
Again, saving the naira: Using that Soludo option
Since the introduction of free-flotation of Naira by the Central bank of Nigeria (CBN), the value of the currency in the face of global currencies had been on a steady but momentarily up and sustained fall. However, By Dan Agbese,…
Welcome Address by Minister of Environment at the Green Bond Conference @NSE
Protocol I am highly delighted to welcome you all today to this Stakeholders Investment Conference, an idea which was born during our first Advisory Group Meeting in September 2016. The Green Bonds process is an attempt by the Environment sector…
Can emerging Public Private Partnership in Lagos really cleanup the state?
Whereas indications are becoming clear that the age long Private Sector Participatory (PSP) approach in dealing with waste management in Lagos State is becoming out of date and grossly ineffective, it is important to look at the new model being…
Boko Haram: Winning the peace after the war
By Austin Okere I was recently in Yola at the invitation of the American University of Nigeria (AUN) to give the keynote address at the maiden business and entrepreneurship boot camp. I was very enthralled by the school and have…
Speech by Comptroller Umar Yusuf on this year’s International Customs Day (ICD) 26/01/2017
The WCO is noted for its work in areas covering the development of international conventions, instruments, and tools on topics such as commodity classification, valuation, rules of origin, collection of customs revenue, supply chain security, international trade facilitation, customs enforcement…
The chilling, hope-packed inaugural speech of Gambian President, Adama Barrow on 19/01/2017
Fellow Gambians and friends of The Gambia, I am humbled to stand before you to address the whole world on this historic occasion. This is a day no Gambian will ever forget in one’s life time. This is the first…
Full text of Donald trump’s inaugural speech as 45th US President by noon, Friday January 20, 2017
Chief Justice Roberts, President Carter, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, Fellow Americans and people of the world: Thank you. We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country and to restore…
What do the people of Southern Cameroons want?
By Julius AyukTabe I was going to title this article “What do Anglophone Cameroonians want?” To avoid any confusion of identity with those who simplify being Anglophone in Cameroon as being able to speak English, I want to be clear…
Nigeria: a chance for re-awakening the economy
By Austin Okere Nigerians are gradually coming to terms that the cheese has indeed moved this time. The days of lucre and easy money, fuelled by petrodollars are far behind us; no thanks to shale oil and other sources of…
