My compliments to Solomon Dalung, the Honourable Minister of Sports.His is a truly “goodly heritage”, as the Holy Bible might have called it. Football, especially at the seat where he is called upon to inhabit at the moment, has had several colourful and successful occupants and most of them did not have a notable connection with the game, sports generally before their arrival either.

Nigeria plans to split state oil company, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC into two to help ease a planned stake sale and wants to sell at least 40 percent of a newly created National Petroleum Company (NPC) in coming years, according to a draft of a long-awaited oil bill.

Dr. Ijeoma Nwagwu, graduate of Harvard Law School’s doctoral programme and Manager of Lagos Business School’s First Bank Sustainability Centre. In this interview , she speaks on the present business environment: where the social and environmental impact of a business is as important as its ability to make profit

Out of the 337,000 births recorded yearly in Kaduna state, 66,000 (20%) die before their 5th Birthday, the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria – Partnership For Advocacy in Child and Family Health, PSN-PACHFAH announced yesterday in Kaduna.

Many have always asked: why is it difficult or almost impossible for economic principles that work in other places to work or be applicable in Nigeria? Once prices of goods or services go up, they never come down. Market forces hardly apply or are not allowed to apply.