GOLDEN Eaglets coach Emmanuel Amuneke wielded the big stick as four players were dropped from the team as part of the building process.

Men of the Joint Task Force, code-named Operation Pulo Shield, were, weekend, put on high alert as protesters besieged oil facilities operated by Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, over the company’s divestment plans and proposed sale of its Oil Mining Licenses, OMLs.

The just concluded World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa has attracted over 68 billion dollars (about N12.9 trillion) in investment to the African continent, Dr Philipp Rosler, the Managing Director of the Forum, said. Rosler disclosed this in a closing remarks on Friday in Abuja

AKURE—AHEAD of the June 21 governorship election in Ekiti State, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate, Mr Ayodele Fayose, weekend asked the indigenes of the state living in Ondo State to transfer their voters’ cards to their respective local governments to make them eligble to vote.

The African Union, AU, has adopted Nigeria’s e-wallet agriculture strategy with a view to ending fertilizer corruption on the continent as African leaders re-focus on deriving highest possible outputs from the sector as a growth-driver in the years ahead.

IN accepting the offer of the United States government to intervene in the Boko Haram insurgency crisis, we, as a nation, have accepted failure.

As the the World Economic Forum Africa, WEFA, ended in Abuja, weekend, the Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has urged Nigerian media and their counterparts in Africa to join in the campaign to attract foreign investors into the region and avoid what she described as negativism that could scare foreign capital.

On the sidelines of the WEF in Abuja, the Vice Chairman of Dangote Group and Executive Head of the Nigeria Agribusiness Group, Alhaji Sani Dangote, spoke on the move by his company to partner with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and donor agencies to produce high energy nutritious foods valued at $50 million, to check hunger and malnutrition among African children.

Today we publish readers’ views on issues raised in this column. Several reactions came in by text messages and online; here are some of the reactions. Godwin111 wrote and said: “The drums of revolution can only be heed by a nation of brave and courageous people. Unfortunately, Nigeria is not one.” Gold Force said: “The […]

Customers of the top five banks gained N7.67 billion in 2013 through the reduction in Commission on Turnover (CoT) charges mandated by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).