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  my TOP 7 IN 20SEVENteen. Hellos evribudi, you received this mail and you were wondering where the heck I have been all these while. Please accept my sincere apologies for not communicating my short absence to you guys. I didn't plan for it too. I was intellectually exhausted and I decided to take about 3 weeks off. In consequence, I used the opportunity to catch up with Game of Thrones from the first to the last season. Trust me; you don’t need to tell me that Jon Snow and I have a lot of things in common. I think I deserve to be the Hand of the King when he finally ascends the Iron Throne. I should be better than Tywin Lannister in discharging my sacred duties. Oops, I almost forgot o, Winter is here and the WhiteWalkers are here for us all. Well, guess what fellas? I have my dragon glass and my vaglrian steel sword. So, let the battle begin. Okay, enough about the Army of the Dead! Today, we would be discussing my top 7 articles for the year 2017 and I ...

  Invest in the future, Defeat malaria Every 25th of April is the World Malaria day, a day set aside to deliberate on the deadly disease and seek ways it can be curtailed, According to the World Health Organization, there are about 207 million malaria cases worldwide and about 40% of malaria deaths occur in just two countries: Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Malaria is a deadly disease caused by infection with single-celled parasites of the genus Plasmodium. Anopheles mosquitoes transmit these parasites from one person to another in their bites. Malaria is characterized by periodic bouts of severe chills and high fever. Serious cases of malaria can result in death if left untreated. More than a million people die of the disease each year, most of them in Africa, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).  The most recent figures from WHO indicate an estimated 660,000 deaths from malaria each year and 219 million cases. Malaria ...

PROMOTING THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY AS A PREFERRED INVESTMENT DESTINATION The last edition of the Lagos international trade fair held from the 9 th to 16 th of November, 2014 was tagged “ Promoting the Nigerian economy as a preferred investment destination. ” The historic event may have come and gone but I would like to discuss the theme meticulously.  Sometimes in April last year, The Statistician General, Mr. Yemi Kale explained that the Nigeria's GDP was recently rebased from about USD 270 billion to USD 510 billion for 2013. The increase of about 90% was attributed to new sectors of the economy such as telecommunications, movies, and retail which were previously not captured or were underreported. As a result of the rebasing, Nigeria is now the largest country in Africa and 26 th largest in the world in terms of GDP figures. However, Nigeria needs more than GDP rebasing to stimulate the economy and drive Foreign Direct Investments. Perhaps, the questions I want every...

ELECTRICITY TARIFF HIKE AND MATTERS ARISING: MY OPINION   Electricity is a product, it is made from raw materials; some of the raw materials are gas, power plants; they are also related. So, the issue of tariff is the single issue of price; when the raw materials of course go up, the price cannot stay the same.” – Babatunde R. Fashola (Minister for Power, Works and Housing) The news of the massive nationwide protests orchestrated by trade and labour unions, aggrieved manufacturers as well as stakeholders and concerned Nigerians to voice their discontentment with the newly effected Multi-Year Tariff Order (MYTO 2.1) dominated most media headlines in the previous week. The protesters besieged the offices of major electricity Distribution Companies (DISCOs) bearing placards and singing solidarity songs decrying the new electricity hike as totally unacceptable, exploitative and impoverishing; the move by NERC to review upward the prices of electricity consumptio...