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		<title>FCCPC and Digital Theft: Time to Act</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Segun Adediran For those who studied Economics at the Ordinary Level in the 1970s, the name O.A. Lawal likely rings a bell. His seminal work, O&#8217; Level Economics of West Africa, outlines the four pillars of production—land, labour, capital, and enterprise—as the essential resources for creating value. Centuries earlier, in 1776, Adam Smith published [&#8230;]
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		<title>Middle-East Crisis: How Tinubu&#8217;s Policy of Naira-for-Crude Guarantees Supply Security in Nigeria</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Temitope Ajayi President Bola Tinubu demonstrated foresight in July 2024, when he approved the use of the naira as the payment currency for crude oil supplied by the NNPC to the Dangote Refinery. Since the launch of the naira-for-crude initiative on October 1, 2024, Nigeria has experienced a strategic breakthrough amid the ongoing economic [&#8230;]
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		<title>Railway Infrastructure is One of the Solutions to Africa’s Trade Expansion</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Caroline Trefault Intermodal Africa Manager at MSC As Africa’s economies continue to diversify and grow at around 4% year-on-year on average, moving goods across the continent is becoming more complex, time-sensitive, and strategically important. Ports are essential gateways for international trade, but the effectiveness of Africa’s trade systems is ultimately determined inland, by how [&#8230;]
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		<title>Nigeria: Illicit Drugs and the Challenge of Addiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 13:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Christiana Daniel ‎Nigeria’s fight against illicit drugs has intensified in ways that are impossible to ignore. Across the country, seizures have increased, trafficking routes have been disrupted, and criminal networks have come under sustained pressure. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has been at the centre of this effort, expanding its operational reach and [&#8230;]
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		<title>Kano Massacre: The Menace of Hard Drugs, Intervention Campaign by NDLEA</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 14:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Mahmud Isa Yola On the noon of Saturday, I sat in the cavernous Conference Hall of the National Mosque in Abuja, lost in a sea of faces, listening with keen interest as my boss, the NDLEA’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Mr. Femi Babafemi, connected the dots between insecurity and drug abuse during a [&#8230;]
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		<title>Are Regulators Signalling a New Era of Accountability?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 14:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Elvis Eromosele For years, Nigerian consumers have complained, sometimes loudly, sometimes helplessly, about poor services. Airlines, telecom operators and banks were always the biggest culprits. In fact, flight delays became routine, dropped calls almost normal, and unexplained bank charges a recurring irritation. What often followed were apologies, excuses and the almost obligatory regulatory silence. [&#8230;]
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		<title>OPay &#8211; From Payment Platform to Lifestyle Ecosystem</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 13:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Moses Braimah Out of curiosity, I decided to spend some time today exploring the @OPay app &#8211; not just for its regular transfers or bill payments that most of us are familiar with, but to see beyond the obvious. Frankly, I was flummoxed, flabbergasted and totally astonished. The people behind this platform have gone [&#8230;]
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		<title>Dangote and the Nigeria Refinery Revolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 13:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Beyond the Monopoly Myths By Moses Braimah When the Dangote Refinery began operations just over a year ago, Nigerians saw it as the dawn of a new industrial age. After four decades of dependence on imported petroleum products, fuel subsidies, and the inefficiencies of state-owned refineries, the privately built $20 billion complex symbolised hope. [&#8230;]
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		<title>The Trouble with Nigeria’s Healthcare System</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Michael Owhoko, Ph.D The quality of a country’s healthcare system is a mirror image of its leaders’ commitment to citizens’ health.  Countries like Singapore, Japan, South Korea and Switzerland are among the world’s top countries with best healthcare for citizens, driven majorly by robust funding and well-structured policy programme. Leaders in these countries do [&#8230;]
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		<title>When Transparency Becomes Luxury: INEC and ₦1.5bn FOI Controversy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Chike Walter Duru When the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) recently demanded a staggering ₦1.5 billion from a law firm for access to the national register of voters and polling units, many Nigerians were left bewildered. The request was made under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, 2011 &#8211; a law designed to make [&#8230;]
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		<title>Effective Employee Management for Profitability and Competitive Edge </title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2025 20:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; By Kazeem Olayemi Odeyeyiwa, FCA  Expectedly, the desire of all businesses is to stay ahead of the competing crowd or maintain a strong competitive edge and be profitable. And it is a truism that lasting competitive advantage is possible through availability of outstanding employees to drive various value activities of the value chain. It [&#8230;]
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		<title>Aligning Talent Strategy with Business Strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2025 20:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160;  By Kazeem Olayemi Odeyeyiwa, FCA  Talent management is of strategic importance to the overall business or organisational strategy, as such, there must proper articulation of the critical relationship between the two. Human Resource Management experts confirm that the creation of differentiating strategic capabilities signifies the relationship between business strategy and human resource. Talent management [&#8230;]
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		<title>Addressing Financial and Non-Financial Signals of Business Decline</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2025 20:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; By Kazeem Olayemi Odeyeyiwa, FCA Every corporate organisation cherishes impressive performance in the form of productivity, profitability and sustainability. No any business is set up with the intention of decline or eventual collapse. Therefore, it is important for business owners and managers to be conscious of the symptoms and causes of business decline with [&#8230;]
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		<title>How Power Outages Threaten Nigeria’s Digital Economy Dream</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2025 10:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Elvis Eromosele Recently, I found myself inside a multi-storied shopping complex buzzing with activity. The building was home to laptop shops, phone sales and repair centres and accessories vendors, an ecosystem of Nigeria’s thriving tech economy. Yet, beneath the hum of commerce was another, more unsettling sound: the deafening roar of generators. The noise [&#8230;]
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		<title>Tinubu/Okonjo-Iweala: What Does &#8216;the Economy is Stable&#8217; Mean?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2025 12:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Yemi Kale I try to stay away from unnecessary debates but let me offer my own view from a purely technical and economist perspective (for education purposes only) to recent debates that were really unnecessary. When economists say “an economy is now stable”, they usually mean that the economy has reached a point where [&#8230;]
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