What hope for Nigerians in 2009

By Omoh Gabriel, Group Business Editor 2009 is probably a year that Nigerians will be made to pay for the lack of policy direction of their...

2009 and Nigerians: Does it bother you that your financial assets may go down in value because of the broader financial meltdown?

By Omoh Gabriel, Business Editor AS the global financial melt down takes its toll on companies’ share value, financial instruments and in recent time human lives,...

By Omoh Gabriel, Business Editor President Umaru Musa Yar’ Adua has in the provision of the 2009 budget introduce austerity measure in Ministries, Departments and Agencies...

Financial melt down: G20 urges IMF/World Bank to sustain the momentum of infra-structure investment for development in low income countries.

By Omoh Gabriel The ministers of Finance and Central Bank governors of the Group of 20 emerging economies that met in Brazil on Sunday have said...

Civil service in its current state lacks the capacity to anchor the race to 2020″

By Omoh Gabriel The 14th Nigeria Economic summit has outlined the various huddles on the way of Nigeria’s bid to becoming one of the twenty largest...

Mansur Muktar Briefing instanbul

Lots of resources now tied up in the central bank, Capital releases made that are not spent —– Muhtar At the ongoing IMF/World Bank meeting, the...

IMF World Bank Meeting 2008, Interview with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

The development committee of the World Bank meeting held, and as the name goes, What dominated most of the Development committee meeting centred mostly on the...

Global financial melt down no solution in sight, US investor loses $8.3trn, how safe is Nigeria foreign reserve.

By Omoh Gabriel Investors in stocks the United States of America have lost a total of $8.3trillion since the financial crisis that is rocking the global...

Nigeria and other oil exporting countries must diversify or face dwindling revenue

By Omoh Gabriel Getting to meet Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in Washington during the IMF/World Bank meeting was an herculean task. Even though the Editor Editor had...

G7 finance ministers pledge to fight global financial crisis

By Omoh Gabriel As the global cash crunch bit harder and claims more banks Finance ministers from leading industrialised nations have pledged action to tackle the...