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Charles SoludoNigeria’s Economy
Improves by 7.5
Per Cent
 


The state of the nation’s economy on Wednesday dominated proceedings at the meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) as the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Prof Charles Soludo briefed the Council on progress made so far...
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Siemens Suspends Employees in Ongoing Corruption Probe  

German engineering giant, Siemens, said on Tuesday it had suspended a number of employees in the ongoing corruption probe as evidence appeared to harden that they might have been involved in possible wrongdoing...
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Top Stories

Obasanjo Flags Off $8.3b Rail Project...
President Olusegun Obasanjo eyes a 10 per cent economic growth in the next "one or two decades," and he pressed on the vision on Tuesday as he laid the foundation of a $8.3 billion Lagos-Kano standard gauge rail line at Kajola, Ogun State...


Bank PHB Posts N3.5b Profit...
Bank PHB on Tuesday announced a pre-tax profit of N3.52 billion for the financial year 2006, a 233 per cent rise over the previous figure of N1.05 billion...


CBN Considers Establishing Commercial Courts...
CBN Governor, Charles Soludo, said the apex bank is carrying out a study on the need to establish commercial courts in Nigeria...


Globacom Picks Top Industry Awards...
Second National Operator, Globacom, has won the two topmost awards at stake at the 2006 Nigerian Information Telecommunications Technology Awards ceremony held in Lagos on Friday...


996 ATMs deployed in Nigeria...
In spite of the growing enthusiasm of banks to promote a cashless society in Nigeria, only 996 automated teller machines have so far, been deplored by the participating banks as at October 2006...


Nigeria Set To Access China’s $10bn Trade...
The Director, Centre for Trade Practitioners, Prince Lekan Fadina, said the country should be prepared to benefit from over 10 billion dollars for development of bilateral trade with China being offered to 11 African countries...


Columnist Weekly
Philip Emeagwali

How Do
We Reverse
the Brain Drain?

Follow the thoughts of one of Africa’s greatest brains who was voted history's greatest scientist (#1) of African descent — and the 35th greatest African of all time — in a survey for the September 2004 issue of the London-based New African magazine. He won the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, the Nobel Prize of supercomputing and in 2000 was extolled by Bill Clinton as “one of the great minds of the Information Age.”

How Do We Reverse the Brain Drain?
- By Philip Emeagwali

For 10 million African-born emigrants, the word “home” is synonymous with the United States, Britain or other country outside of Africa. Personally, I have lived continuously in the United States for the past 30 years. My last visit to Africa was 17 years ago...
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PHCN & Online Electricity Payment System
By Chyke

This is a great achievement for the country. My only concern here is the motivation for this implementation...
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