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Nigeria's search for foreign investors

By UGOCHUKWU R. OGUBUARIRI. Wednesday, November 23 , 2011

Only recently, the governor of Abia State, T.A. Orji, came back from a long vacation abroad and declared to the people of the state that he used his vacation to meet with investors in the United States and elsewhere.

He explained that one of them would be coming to build a dialysis centre in the state. He further disclosed that he had made contacts with investors in the oil and gas industry. Sadly, this declaration from…

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Added by News Updates on November 23, 2011 at 3:07am — No Comments

What’s a Nigerian worth?

By okey ndibe (E-mail: okndibe@yahoo.com ) Tuesday, July 26, 2011

In a sense, the debate over the minimum wage for Nigerian workers raises a more fundamental question: What’s a Nigerian worth? And since there are different kinds of Nigerians, one ought to clarify that the question, at the deepest level, has to do with the least privileged of Nigerians. In other words, what value do we ascribe to the lowliest among us – those that are often, if erroneously, called “ordinary” Nigerians… Continue

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This is not our destiny

By Funke Egbemode 08055069066 (SMS only, please) {egbemode@sunnewsonline.com}

Sunday, May 01, 2011

A house built with spit will be brought down by the dew. That is a Yoruba adage that I first heard around 1978. It wasn’t one of those I learnt from my teacher. It was actually the title of a television drama by the late Oyin Adejobi, shown on the old NTA Ibadan. Ile ti a fi ito mo, that was the title. It was a good story of a man who abandoned his wife and children for a younger woman… Continue

Added by News Updates on May 1, 2011 at 12:13am — No Comments

Rethinking the Sovereign Wealth Fund

By Edward C.Ubah Wednesday, March 9, 2011

The proposal for the establishment of Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) have drawn considerable debates, from different quarters in recent months. The debate rather than focus on key questions, whether Nigeria needs the Fund or a different structure- dissipates energy on its merits and demerits, like most issues of national importance. Some commentators, and proponents of the fund with its envisaged structure, tend to justify their argument for it… Continue

Added by News Updates on March 9, 2011 at 1:29am — No Comments

Nigerian economy: Scope of the problems

Friday, 25 February 2011

ANY national economy is mul-tidimensional and any attempt to proffer solutions to one or more of the problems of the economy must be eclectic, integrated and ramified, be it solution to the educational problem(s); to the agricultural problem(s); to the problems in the water resources and other sectors of the economy.

It is a fundamental and a common problem to all sectors of the Nigerian economy that all the sectors depend, by far, more on imported… Continue

Added by News Updates on February 25, 2011 at 2:00am — No Comments

The China Boom

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Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times

AMERICANIZED Li Wanrong, a Drew University freshman from southern China, says her New Yorker roommate is helping her adjust to Western ways.

In her ballroom dance class, Li Wanrong has learned to tango and cha-cha. At lunch one day, she tried a strange mix of flavors —… Continue

Added by News Updates on November 8, 2010 at 7:23am — No Comments

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