Stephen Oronsaye On 26th February 2024, the Federal Government announced, with great fanfare, that President Bola Tinubu had ordered the implementation of the Oronsaye Panel Report. Although many news outlets reported that the president had ordered “the full implementation of the Oronsaye Report”1, what the Special Adviser to the President on Policy and Coordination, Ms. Hadiza …
President Bola Tinubu has set about reforming Nigeria’s economy at breakneck speed. For some multinationals that have suffered more than a decade of economic chaos, the measures have come too late. Procter & Gamble, GSK, Sanofi and Bayer — among the world’s biggest consumer companies — are leaving, handing over the risk of operating in Africa’s most-populous nation to …
How a Massachusetts psychotherapist fell for a Nigerian e-mail scam. By Mitchell Zuckoff Late one afternoon in June, 2001, John W. Worley sat in a burgundy leather desk chair reading his e-mail. He was fifty-seven and burly, with glasses, a fringe of salt-and-pepper hair, and a bushy gray beard. A decorated Vietnam veteran and an ordained …
Many women are fighting prejudice to take up better-paid work to make ends meet, from driving a taxi or rickshaw to barbering Promise Eze At the Owode Ede bus stop, Bunmi Adewale steers her brightly painted yellow auto rickshaw with one hand, using the other to gesture to passengers to hop in. Her rent is …
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