Vacancy in Queen's Palace (Who is next) by Raisa Bruner

Here’s How You Can Live in Buckingham Palace and Work for the Queen

Live like royalty — literally

mes Available in Golden Beach

If you’ve ever dreamed of living like a queen, now’s your chance to make at least one part of that fairy tale come true: the Royal Household of England has a job opening for a housekeeping assistant. (Spoiler alert: this fairy tale includes some elements of Cinderella.)

Finance minister: this is our worst possible time by Nation Newspaper.

Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun

The full picture of Nigeria’s economic gloom was laid bare yesterday.

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released its indices which showed that the economy had contracted for the second consecutive quarter.

Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun, speaking after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting in Abuja, described the country as being in its “worst possible time”, but stressed there is a silver lining.

In its second quarter report, the NBS put the inflation rate at 17.1 per cent, It said the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) had contracted by 2.06 per cent in the second quarter. The economy contracted by 0.36 per cent in the first quarter.

The crisis is largely due to over dependence on oil as the mainstay of the economy over the years. It constitutes 70 per cent of Nigeria’s GDP and over 90 per cent of the value of its exports.

The Wood Will Never Be Crocodile by Abba Mahmood

Of all the political parties formed in Nigeria by the first-generation leaders, the National Council for Nigeria and Cameroons, later National Council for Nigerian Citizens (NCNC) first led by Herbert Macaulay, and later Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, was the most national. All the others were regional parties and had no pretence about it. Dr. Azikiwe, popularly known as Zik, can rightly claim to be the first Nigerian leader in the true sense of the word. Born in Zungeru in the North, educated in the West and having parents from the East, Zik belonged to all parts of Nigeria. The rest of the first republic politicians were practically local champions who did not have this much connections across the country, but subsequently became national leaders.