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Stemming the Boko Haram menace
The North could never recover from the destruction of Boko Haram menace for the next 20 years
05, 2013
Why We Are Focused on Educational Investments in Kano- Governor Kwankwaso
I am glad to read that Kwankwaso has completely banned begging in Kano State. This in his bid to rid Kano of social vices and other immoral activities. Commander General of Kano Hisbah Board, Sheikh Aminu Ibraheem Daurawa, who made the announcement s...
05, 2013
Why We Are Focused on Educational Investments in Kano- Governor Kwankwaso
Though Kwankwaso is trying a it but the next administration is not going to be PDP in Kano Insha Allah. Mallam party is o the way
05, 2013

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Gimba Kumo: A Mortgage Banker’s Dream for Affordable Houses

January 2012 Labaran Saleh

Since his appointment as the Managing Director, Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) Gimba Ya’u Kumo has been actively engaged in ensuring that Nigerians derive optimum benefits from the mortgage institutions in country. He was at the National Assembly, Abuja where he implored the lower House to enact necessary legislations and laws that would facilitate the creation of mortgages that could con...

Resource Allocation and Economic Potentials in the North

January 2012 Sani Zangon Daura

Agreed, the 1963 constitution advocated, provided for and applied the principle of Derivation. Its insertion must be informed then by the period of learning and gaining experience of living together and perhaps the desire to lay a solid foundation for the Unity in Diversity.

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In Nigeria, Boko Haram Is Not the Problem- American Professor

January 2012 Jean Herskovits

GOVERNMENTS and newspapers around the world attributed the horrific Christmas Day bombings of churches in Nigeria to “Boko Haram” – a shadowy group that is routinely described as an extremist Islamist organization based in the northeast corner of Nigeria. Indeed, since the May inauguration of Presid...

That Obasanjo’s Bombshell on the economy

December 2011 Yushau A. Shuaib

At a recent advocacy workshop organized by the Revenue Mobilisation Commission (RMAFC), on the need for economic diversification and revenue generation, in Abeokuta, former President Olusegun Obasanjo dropped another bombshell on the economic problems confronting the nation.

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Giving Nigerian Corruption the Chinese Pill

December 2011 Prince Charles Dickson

Mr. Tortoise was going on a journey, his wife asked him when he would come back; he replied he would not come back until he has been disgraced.
On November 9, 2011: A city official convicted of graft was executed in China after the highest court approved her death sentence, the state-run Xinhua News ...

The Ranking of Nigerian Banks by Shareholders Funds

November 2011 Economic Confidential

The Economic Confidential has discovered that before the intervention of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) in the banking sector in 2011, as at December 2010, nine of the banks had huge negative shareholders’ funds. Though the risk are minimal now after t...

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