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PDP crisis: I will not resign, Tukur vows
June 19, 2013
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Why pro-Amaechi Govs shunned meeting with Jonathan
June 19, 2013
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Gunmen kill village head, 51 others in Zamfara
June 19, 2013
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N4.4b fraud: Court orders ex-Pensions chief back to jail
June 19, 2013
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Amaechi gives appointment letters to 13,000 new teachers
June 19, 2013
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Ochei justifies N1m investigative journalism prize
June 19, 2013
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Kalu lauds Tukur, PDP over Wammako’s recall
June 19, 2013
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Amaechi pledges to deliver 42km Unity Road
June 19, 2013
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PDP capitulates, lifts Wamakko’s suspension
June 18, 2013
Politics Section
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Nigerians need miracle worker as president – Essien
June 19, 2013
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Six Year Single Term: Stirring the hornet’s nest
June 18, 2013
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Agbaso: Realignment of political forces
June 18, 2013
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Business Section
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NLNG complies with FG’s order to pay NIMASA
June 19, 2013
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AIICO encourages people to buy travel insurance
June 19, 2013
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NAICOM cautions public on assets of Springlife
June 19, 2013
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NSE’s new sectorial indices begin July
June 19, 2013
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Sterling Bank unveils right issue, to raise N12.4b
June 19, 2013
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‘Only 0.68% Nigerians has microinsurance covers’
June 19, 2013
Sports Section
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Oduamadi eyes more goals after hat-trick
June 19, 2013
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Confed Cup: Oduamadi top FIFA ratings
June 19, 2013
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Athletes begin chase for IAAF Worlds tickets in Calabar
June 19, 2013
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Upbeat Super Eagles arrive in Salvador
June 19, 2013
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Shooting Stars may report Rangers to CAF
June 18, 2013
Les Leba
Refineries: Dangote to the rescue?
Nigerians may have heaved a huge sigh of relief with... As vultures applaud imminent debt trap
Lately, the Federal Government’s enthusiasm for further national debt accumulation...CBN’s unrelenting stranglehold on the economy!
LES LEBA, 0817 002 3569, lesleba@gmail.com, lesleba@swiftng.com, lesleba@lesleba.com, www.lesleba.com Lately, the... Super Eagles as the other Nigerian
Our governments have spent billions of naira over time to... Corruption, double speak & banking of public funds!
The recognition of the current abysmal depth of corruption in public office is probably shared by discerning citizens of this country; Oby Vs government: The pot and the kettle
Public discourse recently focused on the charge by Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili (Oby), a former Senior Assistant and Minister in Ex-President Obasanjo’s administration, that the Yar’Adua/Jonathan Presidency had frittered away accumulatedCentral Bank’s lion-share of foreign reserves
The Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, declared at a recent meeting of Governors of Central Banks of the West African Monetary Zone in Abuja recently that our reserves have risen to about $44.6bn. The paradox of too much money and deepening poverty
The anniversary of the 2012 “Occupy Nigeria” fuel subsidy protest was marked recently in Lagos by the Pastor Bakare-led ‘Save Nigeria Group’ with a lecture titled “Nigeria’s Fiscal and Monetary Crisis: the Way Forward”. Ifueko Omoigui-Okauru: An unusual public servant
Every year, Nigeria’s media traditionally celebrate persons adjudged to have distinguished themselves in their respective fields of endeavour or indeed, in their apparent dedication and commitment to their responsibilities as public servants; it is not unusual How reduced budget deficit will challenge the economy
In successful economies, budgets are usually laid before the respective national parliaments many months before the commencement of the New Year to provide the lawmakers with adequate time to Nigerians’ ‘craze’ for dollars
At the conclusion of the 2012 IMF/World Bank Group Annual Meetings in October, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Lamido Sanusi, decried the dollarisation of the Nigerian economy. According to Sanusi, who spoke to some Nigerian journalists who were sponsored to that A fool and his money…
The other day, a friend narrated a story, which I found stranger than fiction; the story related to the travails of a family who lost a successful and illustrious breadwinner, who, incidentally, died without a Will. The family’s elders were consequently entrusted with the... Waivers for the rich, hard labour for the poor!
The primary underlying principle of a social contract in a modern democratic dispensation is that of equality of all persons. Should government sack 50% of civil servants?
At the Second Annual Capital Market Retreat in Warri, the Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Lamido Sanusi, made a strong case against the current dedication of about 70 per cent of the nation’s income to purely consumption by civil servants and politicians, That insensitive 12% MPR retention
The other day, the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry was reported to have decried the retention of the Monetary Policy Rate at 12 per cent by Central Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee as “ill-advised and insensitive”. Deficits with benchmark surpluses: Profligacy or sabotage?
The debate on the appropriate crude oil price benchmark for the 2013 budget has lately attracted numerous interests in the National Assembly as well as in the media. The government’s Economic Management Team (EMT) has stoutly defended the Understatement of projected revenue in 2013 budget?
In the light of the usual extended recess during the I-del Kabir, Christmas and New Year celebrations, the Legislature may have, possibly less IMF’s poisoned pill
“We see increase in oil reference price as a threat because the money will be shared by the three tiers of government. It will increase spending and inflationary spending. We think a reference price of $75/barrel is better than $78, and $78 is... CBN’S quest for retention of absolute power
LES LEBA, 0817 002 3569, lesleba@gmail.com, lesleba@swiftng.com, lesleba@lesleba.com, www.lesleba.com In...Currency Trafficking, BDCS & CBN
In October, several media reports confirmed that two men are now helping Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) operatives with information on how they came about $986,000 found on them at Lagos and Kano International Airports respectively. AMCON as time-bomb
The House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on the Capital Market recently sounded a shrill alarm that the Asset Management Corporation, AMCON, was a time bomb waiting to explode. Capital budget imbroglio and subsidy
The appearance of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Coordinating Minister of the economy at the legislative hearing on the implementation of budget 2012 did not seem to have assuaged the threat of impeachment of President Jonathan by Sanusi Vs Obj: The pot & the kettle
LES LEBA, 0817 002 3569, lesleba@gmail.com, lesleba@swiftng.com, lesleba@lesleba.com, www.lesleba.com Former President...N5,000 note as red herring!
CBN’s confirmation of 2013 as the takeoff date of the new currency profile seems to have jolted the nation and Nigerians have unequivocally challenged the raison d’etre for the introduction of the new design notes and coins at a cost estimated at over N40bn; an...