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2023: Economist urges govt to decisively tackle wide-spread insecurity, all-involving oil theft
A development and economic expert, Dr Chiwuike Uba, has urged the Federal and state governments to take concerted efforts to decisively tackle widespread insecurity and all-involving oil theft. Uba, who is the Board Chairman of Amaka Chiwuike-Uba Foundation (ACUF), said in a statement on Tuesday that the two major challenges had made a mess of 2022 financial earnings and flow…
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Features
Charles Soludo: The quintessential economist at 60
By Jubal Kanayo “So Professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo is already 60 years?” I asked my editor. “Yes, go on and do a short feature on him.” “Besides that stint as CBN governor and his foray into politics, I barely know the man.” “Well, write what little you do know about him.” There was an edge to his voice. I scurried…
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Presidency lambasts The Economist over editorial
The Nigerian Presidency has come out very strongly against an editorial in an international magazine which criticised Goodluck Jonathan’s government, while endorsing Muhammadu Buhari for presidency. In a press statement signed by Reuben Abati, Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity), the presidency ‘noted with surprise, The Economist’s tongue-in-cheek endorsement of General Muhammadu Buhari in the run-up to Nigeria’s…
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