By Usman Mohammad

It is obvious that Asia is emerging as next super power and gradually overtaking the West. After the 1997, Asian Financial Crisis that sent shock waves across the globe and reverberated for two years, South East Asian economies have continued investing heavily in African economies particularly in Nigeria.

By Sunday Badmus

In a recent op-ed piece in the Financial Times (‘Casino gibes do our banks no justice’), John Varley, outgoing group chief executive of Barclays, the British bank, describes the ‘core of banking as money transmission, safe storage of deposits, maturity transformation, provision of investment advice, trading and market-making.’

By Mansur Iliyasu Batagarawa

Election periods are moment of frenzy and all what not as it is always overtaken by the appearance on the scene, of both contenders and pretenders. While the former are often times genuinely, determined to contest and if given the chance, most possibly effect changes in their little way, the latter are just rabble rousers who believe the only way to be known is through printing of posters and pretentiously, “entering the race.” All those who are conversant with politics generally, and Nigerian politics specifically, at least even from 1999 to date, will understand that election periods are often marked by the presence of different characters posing as contestants.

By Yakubu Bonnett

The Agricultural training centres are also a quick reminder of the famous BARC farms owned by Plateau state government but sold to a serving governor in one of the northern states by the short administration of Fidelis Tapgun.