Is Making Extra Mortgage Payments Worthwhile? | Michael Roberts
Michael Roberts
February 28, 2024
Professor Michael Roberts shares tips on how to better manage your money. Worried about your money? Wharton finance professor Michael Roberts is here to help with common-sense advice on mortgage debt, personal budgeting, and planning ahead. This episode is part of a series on getting a “Fresh Start” this new year. Can You Save […]
Is It Okay to Have a Cheat Day? | Marissa Sharif
Marissa A. SharifJanuary 15, 2024
Professor Marissa Sharif explains why goal-setting is easier when you build in some cheat days. Before you make any New Year’s resolutions, you’ll want to hear this science-based advice from Wharton’s Marissa Sharif. She explains why goal-setting is easier when you build in some cheat days, which she calls “emergency reserves.” This episode is […]
Nigeria’s ‘not fit for purpose’ technical MDAs: MITI, NNPC, NASENI (3)
Ehiedu E.G. IwerieborApril 29, 2019
By Ehiedu E.G.Iweriebor The story of the third agency example is no different. The Ministry of Science and Technology (FMST) by name and mandate should be assumed to be in the vanguard of national technological capacitation. It has not done anything revolutionary or decisive or noteworthy in that area. FMST also has one of […]
Nigeria’s ‘not fit for purpose’ technical MDAs: MITI, NNPC, NASENI (2)
Ehiedu E.G. IwerieborApril 22, 2019
By Ehiedu E.G. Iweriebor The second example is the Ministry of Petroleum Resources and its parastatal the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), which were established in the 1970s when Nigeria was still practically concerned as a nation with promoting its development processes that will at least enable Nigeria to emerge as an industrial […]
Liberatory Development Perspective Column: The Introductory Piece
Ehiedu E.G. IwerieborJanuary 31, 2019
Ehiedu E.G. Iweriebor, Ph.d The purpose of this column is to articulate, advocate and provide fresh and radical perspectives, ideas, views and even paradigms for Africa and Africans assumption of primary responsibility for national and continental advancement and self-transformation. These perspectives will be articulated with knowledge and consciousness of Africa’s present complex state of […]