To discuss press ownership and freedom in Japan is to discuss Japan Press Club popularly known as “Kisha club”. Kisha clubs are drawn from Japanese nationals ready to work within the dictates of government...
* Stricter regulation of mergers and acquisitions* New rules for corporate bond issuance* Tighter corporate disclosure requirements ABUJA, April 28 (Reuters) - Nigeria's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)...
* Elections chief to hand over responsibilities to deputy* Iwu faced widespread criticism for his role in 2007 poll ABUJA, April 28 (Reuters) - Nigeria's Acting President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday ordered the...
On Tuesday, the National Economic Council (NEC) spent much of its time during its meeting on the problems associated with the continued subsidy made on petroleum products by the Federal Government. The statistics are...
The National Assembly recently passed the 2010 Appropriation Bill ith huge adjustments in the total sum to be spent and the key macroeconomic indices on which the budget estimate was predicated. Under the new...
Ethnic Heritage Question Number 9 of the U.S. CensusIf you or our parents emigrated from Africa, identify yourself as being "African" on the 2010 U.S. Census questionnaire and to be more specific about your...
Could wiki technology find Osama bin Laden? Imagine if any Pakistani could send an anonymous text message to the authorities suggesting where to look. Each location could be plotted on a map. The dots would be...
Yes, you heard me right: the time has come to rethink fuel subsidy. All my life I have argued in favour of fuel subsidy, but now I am shifting my position. My pro-subsidy argument has always been based on two critical...
The rump of the Umaru Musa Yar’Adua presidency have tragically missed the point and deepened the unfolding political uncertainty in the air. The desperate contrivance of an audio only interview with the...
THE Nigeria Police Force is reputed globally for excellence in international assignments. Since Independence in 1960 when it undertook peacekeeping operations in Congo Brazzaville, it has won admiration as perhaps the...
Notable Nigerians, including the Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Fanala, and Pastor Tunde Bakare of the Latter Rain Assembly, Lagos, on Tuesday in Abuja led a mass protest against the...
By CHINEDU EZE,The attempt to blow up an American airline by Nigerian-terror suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on Christmas day has not only caused considerable embarrassment to the country, it has also compelled the...