NIGERIA's aviation unions have threatened to disrupt the operation of domestic airline Aero Contractors’ amid rumours that the company's management is planning to sack 40% of its workforce as part of a cost-cutting measure.
Of late,...
NIGERIA'S accountant-general Ahmed Idris has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in connection with diversion of funds and money laundering said to be to the staggering tune of N80bn ($192.65m).
Mr Idris...
Ayo Akinfe
Do you know that the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) was founded in 1969? Sine then, it has provided billions of dollars worth of funding for its members to help them with infrastructural development. Hopefully the death of...
Ayo Akinfe
For starters, every year, Nigeria's delegation to the hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia should return with a minimum foreign direct investment sum of $50bn. If they do not, their trip is a meaningless jamboree
What is Nigeria...
NIGERIAN paper imports during the last six months of 2021 added up to N296.696bn ($716m) as a result of the fact that the nation's mills have all but grounded to a halt forcing the country to be dependent on overseas supplies.
Over...
CENTRAL Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor Godwin Emefiele has failed to get a court order barring him from running for president while still in office after an Abuja high court refused to grant his request asking he be exempt from the...
Ayo Akinfe
Start manufacturing all our armaments locally
Build borders that can be effectively policed
Establish a special forces commando unit similar to say the British SAS or the US Navy Seals
Build more factories, leisure and...
WEST African air travellers have taken to social media to mock BA's attempts to serve its passengers jollof rice aboard a London to Accra flight with those who were served the dish complaining that what they were served looked nothing like the...
Ayo Akinfe
No matter how you look at it, large under-performing countries like Nigeria, Indonesia, Pakistan and Bangladesh are the only hope for humanity in the post-Covid-19 era. With global economic output down by about a third, they are the...
NIGERIAN airline operators have issued a notice warning the general public that they will ground all their flights as from Monday May 9 and stop all domestic flights as a result of the exorbitant cost of aviation fuel.
Over the last few...