Tuesday 27 September 2016

Saturday, saturday medicine


Concerns about the quality of education from part-time programmes university keep growing writes OBODO EJIRO

During the week, she works as a cashier at a new generation bank in Lagos while he works as a shopkeeper at a small shop in Abeokuta, but at weekends, they are classmates at the University of Lagos. This is how tertiary remedial or part-time programmes bring people together across Nigeria weekly.


FG, CBN battle stagflation as inflation, unemployment rise



The Federal Government and Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) are battling an economic anomaly called stagflation as both inflation and unemployment which should have an inverse relationship are rising simultaneously.


Thursday 1 September 2016

The burden of a sale

There is a peculiar challenge facing Nigeria’s economy OBODO EJIRO writes.

They can be seen even when it rains heavily. Young men in their early twenties or late thirties braving the cold, chasing vehicles in desperate efforts to sell loaves of bread in front of Nigeria’s National Stadium in Lagos.