The newly appointed Non-Executive Chairman of the African Finance Corporation (AFC), Mr. Adebayo Ogunlesi has reiterated its commitment to the development of the African continent through key infrastructure financing. Ogunlesi, an international investment banker, who is also Chairman and Managing Partner, Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) expressed his determination towards addressing the continent’s infrastructure deficit and […]

I SHOULD first register my best wishes to the president, Umar Yar’Adua, in his search for more robust health. I wish him well in his struggles with ill-health and extend my sympathies for his private pains.

ISOKO Positive Agenda (IPA) has thrown its weight behind the Conference of Ethnic Nationalities of Niger Delta (CEEND) on its demand on the Federal Government to give explicit interpretation of the 10 percent equity for oil host communities. IPA members, who rose from a meeting in Warri, said in a statement signed by their chairman, […]

THE Presbyterian Church of Nigeria (PCN) has  declared that Nigerians  now live  in apparent hopelessness. It blamed this on the economic and socio-political situation in the country in which the major social structures are collapsing. In a communiqué issued at the end of the quarterly meeting of its General Assembly Executive Committee (GAEC), the  church […]

THE annual Shiloh event organized by Living Faith Church Worldwide Ota, Lagos, holds December 8 to 12. This year’s event titled ‘Hour of Restoration’ is the eleventh in the series of Shiloh events. Bishop David Oyedipo, president of the Living Faith Church, said Shiloh 2009, like previous events, will have special healing services and a […]

*Insists deregulation is the only way forward *Says Nigeria has invested heavily in education *‘Some people are still living with prejudices of the First Republic’ In this concluding part of the interview with Senator Jubril Aminu, some of his comments came across as scary. Sampler: Look at what happened in Lagos between the Oodua Peoples […]

By Ise-Oluwa Ige Abuja-THE National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) is scheduled to meet next month, in Enugu. The NEC is the highest ruling organ of the association. The meeting  is important for more reasons than one. First, the meeting will avail the NBA the opportunity to critically x-ray the major […]

Mama Favour had been dreading the end of term report that her first son would bring home. Throughout the term she had been ensuring that he attended classes regularly and did his home work. She even got him a lesson coach, still his reports weren’t improving, and this infuriates the father. Her fears were confirmed when he didn’t make the first twenty in his class.

By KOLADE LAREWAJU Abeokuta- SPEAKER  of the House of Representatives, Mr. Dimeji Bankole, has commended Chief HID Awolowo, the wife of the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, for her untiring efforts in bringing about unity among Yoruba even in her old age. Speaking during a visit on the occasion of the 94th birthday of the wife […]

BREAKING News Commentary: Justas I was about to send this Sunday’s column to the Sunday Editor, news reached us that our dear President Yar’Adua had once again been admitted into a hospital in Saudi. He was on admission in January this year, which occasioned the column below – written in January 2009.