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Susceptible to critique, accomplished banker-cum-administrator Bismarck Rewane was on Channels Television recently to analyse how the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Monetary Policy Committee hiked the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) from 18.75 percent to 22.5 percent (400 basis points) will affect Nigerians. Elaborating on what he termed the audacity of the …

Following the spate of killings and kidnappings across the country, Saturday Vanguard got some retired generals of the Nigerian military to bare their minds on the unending menace and what should be done to tackle the scourge. The retired Generals and their equivalent in the Navy and Airforce agreed to …

FOR every beginning, there must be an end. It may come when anticipated or prior to the expected time. The sure thing is that the end will definitely come. This altruism applies to life generally, talk more of an appointment to a public office with a tenure. Therefore, about two …

Former Senate Leader, Distinguished Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, SAN, and Executive Secretary (ES) Nigerian Shippers Council (NSC), Rt. Hon. Emmanuel Jime, have described the emergence of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the Chairman of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), as a welcome development that is good for Nigeria and …

A popular saying tells us that ‘there’s no good in goodbye.’ Really? I’ve been turning it round in my head, and I think there may actually be some good in goodbye. In fact, a lot of good. Let’s go. I recently wrote about my ancestors and forebears in the presidential …

China will no longer be the world’s most populous nation. India’s population will overtake it this year at an estimated population of 1.42 billion.  It’s an epochal transition which speaks to other underlying demographic changes across the world, including the fact that China’s population has peaked and is now falling. Meanwhile, the region with the fastest-rising population – …

Despite President Muhammadu Buhari’s promise to improve education funding and allocation to the sector, Nigerian students have continued to troop abroad, and in droves in pursuit of foreign education. So far, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) data on payment analysis has shown that citizens have spent about $4 billion …

Democracy, by its design, nature, and practice, is not a light toggle switch that is turned on and off. It is not a wall that crumbles in one fell swoop. Democracy is always a process, both in its growth and demise. History is replete with how democracies collapsed in other …

By Hassan Salihu Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Professor Bolaji Owasanoye, SAN, has been honoured with the national medal of Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR). The award conferred on him is in appreciation of his effective leadership, which has …

A total of 5,341 persons have been conferred with various National Honours since its inception in 1963, including the recipients of Tuesday awards. Below is the full speech of the President at the award investiture ceremony. ​”It is my honour to address you on behalf of the Federal Government and …