Opinion

Encouraging local production, right policies the way out Approximately 1.6 million Africans died of malaria, tuberculosis and HIV-related illnesses in 2015. These diseases can be prevented or treated with timely access to appropriate and affordable medicines, vaccines and other health...

A Premium Times report by Joshua Olufemi and Richard Akinwumi, published on November 16, 2015 showed that despite spending an unprecedented N1.488 trillion on armaments between 2011 and 2014, the coefficient of correlation between military spending and death toll caused by violence...

Volatile global financial markets and weaknesses in global growth to blame Just three years ago, most of the world’s fastest-growing economies were in Africa, among them Angola, Chad, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda and Sierra Leone. A middle class was emerging,...

The Federal Ministry of Finance through a news release dated January 12, 2016, confirmed the completion of the recruitment exercise for the Executive Management team of the Development Bank of Nigeria (DBN), and has applied for its operational license from the Central Bank of...

The indulgence into criminality by some Nigerians is really strange and   awful. The rapidity and magnitude Boko Haram Terrorism expanded its   viciousness in Nigeria stunned infinitely. The existence of caves in some forests in Kogi state and other parts of  ...

Those who signed the July 4, 1776 American Declaration of Independence gave humanity  one of the most imperishable declarations “ _We hold these truths to be self- evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed  by...

The cobwebs should have cleared from the eyes of anyone previously in doubt about the shady dealings of online hitman and publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoleye Sowore, who was this week arrested over an alleged threat to life and...

The leitmotif guiding the theory of comparative advantage is that in a world of competing markets, trade and exchange of goods usually occur. This trade is often beneficial if there are relative differences in the factors of production. In...

Barrack Obama, the 44th President of the United States and the first African American to hold the top American job, delivered his farewell address to Americans yesterday (January 10) from his adopted home state of Chicago. Speaking in front...

Recently, the federal Government of Nigeria imposed a 20% tax on imported medicines in a new tax policy called Import Adjustment Tax. Prior to this, Nigeria had 0% duty on imported drugs. This is a consequence of an ECOWAS...