Nigerian banks can create Diaspora bonds as a financial tool to bridge financing gaps in the country, Ms. Vicky Johnston, Senior Regional Director, Middle East and Africa, Moneygram International, recently said. Johnston said in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on the sidelines of the Banking Outlook Africa conference 2010. She stated that [...]

President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered the removal of names of online journalists from a watch list circulated to all major airports in Nigeria by the State Security Services, SSS. The late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua had in a desperate attempt to suppress and gag online journalists operating news websites critical of Government, directed the SSS through its [...]

In a bid to tackle the unending menace of kidnapping in the country, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has unveiled plans to check the menace of using telecommunications devices. The Commission in a statement made available to THISDAY, disclosed that the Acting Executive Vice Chairman/CEO of the Commission, Dr Bashir Gwandu, revealed that triangular tracking [...]

IN the current campaigns by Nigeria’s activist advocates of “free, fair and credible” election in 2011, and beyond, there is one underlying assumption: that the enthronement of a government which represents the true choice of the people, through their votes, will begin the process of halting the decline to state failure, begin the return of [...]