Budget 2012: Employment generation as antidote to security crisis

-
Budget 2012: Employment generation as antidote to security crisis

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Edo 2016: Peaceful, issue-based campaigns are vital

-
The forthcoming September 10, 2016 governorship election in Edo State is one of the seven off-cycle elections in Nigeria. Other states with a similar fate are Anambra, Ekiti, Osun, Ondo, Bayelsa and Kogi. The reasons for this phenomenon are twofold. The first was as a result of judicial verdict arising from proved allegations of stolen mandate at the election petitions tribunals against the Peoples Democratic Party in Anambra, Edo, Ekiti, Ondo and Osun states. Second,the January 27, 2012 Supreme Court decision on the tenure elongation suit of five governors who won re-run elections after their initial victories had been annulled by the election tribunals. In the landmark judgment under reference, the apex court, in a unanimous decision, said the interpretation and intendment of Section 180(2) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is that no governor should spend more than four years as a tenure irrespective of whether his previous election into the same office wa...
Read more

Automatic Teller Machines: A Revolution and its Pains

-
On March 15, 2010, Consumer Protection Council (CPC) held a Consumer Interactive Forum in Abuja. At the forum, Mr. Chris Chukwu, the Deputy Director, Financial Policy and Regulation Department of the Central Bank of Nigeria who stood in for the CBN Governor said Automatic Teller Machine fraud is among the leading complaints coming to the apex bank. The Director-General, CPC, Mrs. Ify Umenyi also observed that complaints received in CPC on financial services for 2008 and 2009 put ATM complaints second behind non-issuance of share certificate. Really, the soaring incidences of ATM fraud should worry any bank customer. This piece looks at the pros and cons of the ATM revolution in Nigeria. According to an internet source, “the very first ATM in Nigeria was installed by National Cash Registers (NCR) for the defunct Societe Generale Bank Nigeria (SGBN) in 1989”. ATMs are operated via debit and credit cards. There are three variants of these in Nigeria. They are the Standard Card, Verve Ca...
Read more

Jide Ojo at 51: The story behind the glory

-
It’s my birthday. Hurray! I give glory to God for the grace, mercy and opportunity to celebrate another date of birth alive and in good health. I am not ungrateful of divine favour that has made me to emerge from a muddy background to becoming a notable newsmaker. In my short life, I have gone through trials and travails. I have contemplated suicide when I was failing English and Mathematics examinations in a record four times before making it at the fifth attempt (1985 – 1990). My family was so poor that even poor people in the neighborhood were calling us poor. While others were born with silver spoon, I was born with no spoon at all, not even a wooden one. My father was a primary school teacher and retired as a village headmaster in my hometown, Ile-Ogbo in Ayedire Local Government of Osun State. Mum was just a petty trader. My family migrated to Ibadan about 1964. Going to school was stressful. It was education with tears. I have to walk kilometers to and from school every day ...
Read more