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Op-Ed Editor July 20, 2015

Ijeoma Nwogwugwu: Nasir el-Rufai, the NNPC slayer

by Ijeoma Nwogwugwu Back in the day when I worked with him at the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), some us used to surreptitiously devise strategies to “help Nasir help…

Op-Ed Editor April 13, 2015

Ijeoma Nwogwugwu: Who really is a Lagosian?

by Ijeoma Nwogwugwu I have a dream that one day no Nigerian in Lagos shall be called a foreigner, I have a dream that someone other than a man shall…

November 6, 2013

Ijeoma Nwogwugwu: The Kerosene subsidy scandal

by Ijeoma Nwogwugwu I have often argued that the hue and cry over the retention of the subsidy on petrol is one that is managed and controlled by the elite.…

October 14, 2013

Ijeoma Nwogwugwu: The problem with the Naira

by Ijeoma Nwogwugwu In defence of the measures, Sanusi said Nigeria had overtaken Russia as the largest importer of foreign currency, insisting that no country in the world pays its…

September 23, 2013

Ijeoma Nwogwugwu: Time to stop toying with the PIB bill (Part 3)

by Ijeoma Nwogwugwu The PIB can no longer be delayed. The oil companies must stop pussyfooting and tell the government what exactly they want. It is not enough to say…

September 9, 2013

Ijeoma Nwogwugwu: Time to stop toying with the PIB (1)

by Ijeoma Nwogwugwu But as the legislators on both side of the divide bicker and employ delay tactics over what really are inconsequential issues that could easily be resolved, they…

August 26, 2013

Ijeoma Nwogwugwu: Seismic shift in Nigeria’s electricity sector

by Ijeoma Nwogwugwu That Interstate has gotten this far in the process should be blamed on Vice-President Namadi Sambo who has chairman of NCP kept bending the rules for his…

August 19, 2013

Ijeoma Nwogwugwu: Stella Oduah in perspective

by Ijeoma Nwogwugwu It is amazing how she has been able to upgrade 50 per cent of the airports in the country in one fell swoop, improved the face of…

August 12, 2013

Opinion: The disingenuity of Nigerian banks

by Ijeoma Nwogwugwu In my mind, there is no justification for the interest rates charged by Nigerian banks. For almost two years, the CBN, as a result of the expansionary…

April 22, 2013

Ijeoma Nwogwugwu: Instituting a culture of meritocracy

by Ijeoma Nwogwugwu ...it is high time we jettisoned the quota system, federal character or political considerations in determining who should occupy certain critical agencies of government. Last Thursday, the…

January 28, 2013

Opinion: Time for Nwogwugwu to rethink Labour

by Issa Aremu Let us put paid to an entrenched prejudice and unhelpful managerialism in which we reduce complex issue of development to mere numbers, not the people. Can we…

December 17, 2012

Ijeoma Nwogwugwu: NLC keeps missing the point

by Ijeoma Nwogwugwu ...what should preoccupy the NLC is how the federal government can cut its wage bill without causing social upheavals and throwing more people into the…

September 10, 2012

Ijeoma Nwogwugwu: The battered Nigerian naira and ‘project cure’

If the aim of the central bank is to discourage big ticket or high value cash transactions, then there is no compelling need to introduce higher denominations in the…

August 28, 2012

Ijeoma Nwogwugwu: Economic saboteurs in our midst

Nigeria is a bundle of contradictions. For years we’ve lost sleep over the amount of money wasted on private electricity generation, how the lack of regular power supply has shut…

August 13, 2012

Ijeoma Nwogwugwu: The Lagos traffic law does not make sense

The point being made is that before the Lagos State Government goes gaga over its new Traffic Law, it needs to do some soul searching as to if it has…

July 24, 2012

Ijeoma Nwogwu: Barking up the wrong tree

by Ijeoma Nwogwu It’s Saturday afternoon and I have just spent the first four hours of my day reading the House of Representatives’ probe report into the “near collapse of…

June 10, 2012

Simon Kolawole resigns from Thisday in protest – ‘He is free to go,’ says Obaigbena

by Hauwa Gambo Simon is said to be "shocked" by this We reported this morning that the editor of Thisday, Simon Kolawole had been moved - in what appeared to industry insiders…

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