Exhibitors at the Abuja International Trade Fair have attributed the low turnout at the fair to the tight security arrangements at the venue. Some of them complained about the situation. Malam Sule Lafizi, a herbal medicine dealer from Maiduguri, said that the presence of soldiers at the entrance to the exhibition ground scared many people away from the fair.

THE gathering was an unusual one as it featured only the aged at a venue in the Oke-Afa area of Lagos to celebrate the 51st anniversary of Nigeria’s independence. The event was put together by a non-governmental organisation, Centre for Happy Elderly People, CHEP, under the leadership of Deaconess Lilian Jiringho.

Shareholders and operators in the Nigerian capital market are divided over the proposed removal of oil subsidy by the Federal Government. While some of them welcome the development others rejected it completely.

AN average, normal female child would start experiencing a monthly cycle of ovulation and menstruation from about age 11yrs – 45 or 50 yrs.

If you expect me to write today about the Abuja dis grace last Saturday, then permit me to disappoint you. First of all, at the time that match was going on, I was on CAF duty in far away Tunisia.