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Emefiele’s agony on Nigeria’s cheap dollar subsidy for rich and lazy

Mr Godwin Emefiele, the CBN Governor, had launched the RT200 (Race to $200 billion) idea earlier this year, in response to what is an existential prob

Another sacred season is here

Dhul-Hijjah, which is the twelfth and last month in the Islamic lunar calendar, is here. It is the month during which pilgrimage to Makkah (Hajj), whi

Hassan’s first steps to millions

Hassan Thomas is a gardener with an ornamental plants business in Minna. He also maintains my neighbour’s plants.  That’s how we met.  “You can do thi

Column No.6: Another look at ‘corporate begging’ and other new Nigerianisms

It’s not a secret that Nigerian slang is always evolving, with new words and phrases constantly birthed, and even rebirthed. It’s exciting, especially

Politics, religion and money

Yakubu Mohammed Right from my childhood and my early days in the quest for knowledge first in Islamiyya school, then in primary, secondary and high sc