Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has replaced Oil Minister Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu as group managing director of state oil company NNPC as part of a wider board overhaul.Oil accounts for about 70 percent of Nigeria’ revenue, but the OPEC member has been hit hard by a prolonged drop in crude prices that has caused the deepest…
The explanation for our national turgidity lies in the early withdrawal method. Our collective intention as a country is to make a great fuss and then peel off to make another great fuss, with predictably low returns, writes Nana Yaa Ofori-Atta.Ghanaian children of a certain type are strongly encouraged to learn to read with phonetics.…
Former National Youth Organiser of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Abu Ramadan, says his legal team has discovered some eighty-four districts which did not record a single National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) registrant. This, he described as problematic and constitutes some of the reservations captured in their petition before the Supreme Court. “What will the…
The National Media Commission (NMC) has underscored the need for effective media regulatory laws to prevent incidents of unguarded comments and threats on media platforms.Executive Secretary of NMC, George Sarpong says had the Supreme Court not frozen its Content Authorisation Law aimed at sanitising the media landscape, the incident of a death threat issued on…
Energy expert Dr. Charles Wereko-Brobby has dismissed new subsidies announced by government saying the effect on consumers will be negligible. The former CEO of the power generator, Volta River Authority (VRA), suggested that what consumers need is not subsidies but a reduction in the taxes imposed by government. Government was happy to announce Monday that…