INTERVIEW

A woman has nine lives
By Oluwatoyin Akinola

For Dr. Olutoyin Phillips nee Euba, mum’s advice is golden if not sacred. Thus one is not surprised at what she’s made of her life. Though an only child, her privileged circumstances rather than get into her head spurred her to make the most of it, such that even when she met Olumide Phillips (her husband of about 30 years) and marriage was on the agenda, the first thing she told him was that she wanted to get her PhD first. And she did, at a time when women that got that far could be counted on the fingers of one hand.

NEWS

Ghana snubs IMF over $3bn Chinese loan 

By Murtala Muhammed Bako

The President of Ghana, John Evans Atta Mills, intends to pull Ghana out of the International Monetary Fund in a final bid to end moves by the Christine Largarde-led funding agency to suffocate the US$3 billion loan the NDC government wants from the China Development Bank (CDB).

NEWS

 Chinese galamsey operator arrested in Ghana

Twenty Four Chinese have been arrested by personnel of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) for engaging in illegal mining activities in Ghana.

SPECIAL NEWS

 Brave grandma arrests armed robber

The 65-year-old woman with an iron-like grip could not withstand her daughter being attacked and robbed by two armed robbers. She fought one of the robbers, identified as a Nigerian, by grabbing his balls.

COMMENTARY

 River financial meltdown: A case of double standard

 Odimegwu Onwumere

 In his book, The New Frugality, economist Chris Farrell while explaining the cause of global recession says that a generation has learned the hard way the dangers to borrow on credit. The Encyclopedia Britannica Online describes the meltdown as the worst economy in a generation. 

NIGERIAN AFFAIR

 NGF's seeming rebellion against FG

By Odimegwu Onwumere

President Goodluck Jonathan must have been thinking seriously recently of how to tackle the seeming revolution by the Nigeria Governor’s Forum (NGF). The group has not hidden its stand in saying that the Federal Government’s management of a certain Federation Account is out of place. The group has opened the battle against the idea of the federal government’s creation of the Sovereign Wealth Fund, SWF, said was hinged on saving excess money chiefly gained from crude oil sales.