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As the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is working to improve the payment system, the expectation is that the resultant reduction in the cost of doing business for the banks should conversely lead to a drop in the cost of funds, writes Stanley Orons...
Chris Ugwu in this write-up examines how market forces helped to keep afloat the capital market during the recent nationwide strike over fuel subsidy removal. Although profitable transactions pervaded the stock market activities during the one we...
To ensure transparency in demutualisation process of the Nigerian Stock Exchange(NSE),an expert in the workings of the capital market has called on the regulators to ensure that dealing members were taken into consideration in policy formulation that w...
Fix sanitation; fix diseases is how experts have summed up the need for a clean environment and good personal hygiene so as to stop the transmission of communicable diseases, writes WINIFRED OGBEBO. The cliché that cleanliness is nex...
While 2012 was set as a deadline for Nigeria to eradicate the wild polio virus, the country has continued to witness upsurge in the virus with 56 cases already reported . In this interview with WINIFRED OGBEBO, Dr Abdullah...
Health workers in the field of Medical Laboratory Science have been called upon to avoid strike action in the course of their duties and to avoid dabbling in politics in the name of unionism. The minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu gave this adv...
As part of the multi-dimensional approach towards fighting drug counterfeiting, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has decided to deploy some regulatory officers to man the new Mega Drug Distribution Centers buil...
The National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) through the support of the Global Fund grant atthe weekend handed over the last 6 of 28 vehicles for community services against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The agency said its part of intensifi...
Human rights activist and lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, in this interview with PAUL DADA, x-rays the recent nationwide strike by the organised labour and vouches for the integrity of labour leaders just as he explains the wider implications of the fuel hike...
These are not the best of times for the country. The spate of bombings for which the Boko Haram Islamist sect has claimed responsibility has set the nation on the edge. The fabrics of unity, harmony and corporate co-existence of the c...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said it is not going to suspend its ongoing strike as speculated by government, unless its demands are met. The Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufai, after a meeting with the various universit...
Following the truce reached by the organised labour and the federal government over the disagreement and subsequent mêlée over President Goodluck Jonathan’s fuel subsidy removal, which was later, partially reversed, LEADERSHIP SUNDAY can confir...
Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon Aminu Tambuwal, has urged all Nigerians to respect the sanctity of human life while voicing their grievances, saying last Friday's multiple blasts that rocked the ancient city of Kano call for greater concern ...
The Chairman of the Corresponding Chapel of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) , Kano State Chapter , Malam Mujtapha Ramalan Bello, has said that the late reporter with the Channels Television repor...
Police in Funtua Local Government Area of Katsina State on Friday arrested a suspected armed robbery kingpin, Tasi’u Bommalli, who later died of multiple gun shot injuries on the way to the hospital. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that ...