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  BEING A SPEECH BY DR. GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN, FORMER PRESIDENT, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA AT: “A CONVERSATION TO DISCUSS SOME OF THE ISSUES RELATING TO THE PROMOTION OF YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP” AT THE OXFORD UNION 24TH OCTOBER 2016. Protocols It is my pleasure and a great honour to be in...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie I was 7 years old the first time I recognized political fear. My parents and their friends were talking about the government, in our living room, in our relatively big house, set on relatively wide grounds at a southeastern Nigerian university, with doors shut and no strangers...

The launch of the liberalized interbank forex market by Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)  on June 20, 2016, had come with several hope that it would attract foreign inflows, more so that the move would boost liquidity in the market. But in spite of all these expectations, the much expected...

Having won two awards at the just concluded World Pension Summit-African Special, the Managing Director, Premium Pension Limited (PPL), Mr Wilson Ideva, in this interview with ABDUL OLALEKAN, speaks on this feat and where the pension industry will be in the next five years. Double awards like these come occasionally....

During the week, Wife of Nigerian President, Aisha Buhari granted the BBC Hausa an interview where she expressed her opinion on the performance of her husband, the President of Nigeria. Here is the detail of the Aisha’s interview with BBC Hausa. BBC Hausa: It has been One and a half...

Nigeria celebrated 56 years of independence two weeks back, ABDUL OLALEKAN chronicles events in insurance industry in the last 56 years as he examined how the players in the industry have fared. The birth of modern insurance in Nigeria is closely associated with the arrival of British trading companies, which...

Insurance industry loses N60bn yearly on it Motorists ignorant of its benefits Nigeria's insurance industry is losing N60 billion on a yearly basis as only 25 per cent of vehicles on Nigerian roads have genuine 3rd party motor insurance policy, Business247 News Online has learnt. This is aside hundreds of...

  Ebony Agro Industry Limited, one of the companies producing quality rice in Ebonyi State was visited by the members of Finance Correspondents Association of Nigeria (FICAN) as part of the programme of the CBN seminar for the association held in the state late last month. The Chairman of the...

The National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has formally replied the allegations levied against him by the party’s National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, concerning the choice of the party’s governorship candidate for the Ondo State governorship election. THE FACTS – 2016 ONDO STATE APC GOVERNORSHIP...

With the expected rise in foreign exchange (forex) demand by importers in December, the prospects of the naira in the months ahead do not look bright. NIYI OLAOYE, therefore,  writes on the fall of naira at the parallel market last week, exchanging at N490/dollar. December is usually characterized with fanfare,...