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The call for economic confab  The parlous state of the economy attracted the concern of Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka who, after paying a visit to the Information and Culture Minister, Alhaji Lai Mohmmed, last week, called on the Federal Government to summon an emergency economic conference to discuss a hoslitic way out of the current tempetuous doldrums. He told reporters: “I really think we need an emergency economic conference, a rescue operation bringing as many heads as possible together to plot the way forward”.  Already, Soyinka’s call has received the nod of those who directly feel the pains of the current economic atmosphere: the organised private sector. The President of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) Mr Frank Jacobs and the Director General of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), Mr Muda Yusuf, believe such a forum at this moment of grave economic emergency when the  Naira is at an all time low against the  US Dollar,...