“Are we moving forward or going backwards?” asked Simon in the CMS-bound commuter vehicle.

Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority, NSIA, managers of Nigeria sovereign wealth fund, has said that 40 per cent of the additional $250 million (an equivalent of N49.3 billion) allocated to it by the Federal Government February this year would be deployed to fund on-going infrastructure projects on behalf of the government.

MESSRS Emma Akana, Sikiru Akinbanjo and Friday Akagbue are not relatives but were once united by a common destiny. They were not born blind, but each of them once lived in the world of the blind. But they can now see. Their sight was not miraculously or divinely restored, but through a time-tested scientific process known as cornea transplant.

A man, who came into the country from abroad for the mum’s burial reportedly died from the dreaded Lassa Fever at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, UBTH, after receiving medical attention by a team of health care personnel.

FLYING Eagles coach, Emmanuel Amuneke has said Nigerian and African coaches need to start demanding their due respect by delivering ground breaking results that would tell a lot about their capabilities.

A Mararaba Upper Area Court, Nasarawa State, yesterday, sentenced a 36-year-old man, Benjamin Ogbeji, to one year imprisonment for beating up his wife and calling her a prostitute.

ABEOKUTA—Hundreds of indigenes of Sango and Ijoko in Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun state, yesterday, besieged the private residence of former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta, urging him to prevail on Governor Ibikunle Amosun over the creation of Local Council Development Area and boundary adjustment.

On Election Day 2015, Nigerians decided they preferred order to chaos and seemed united in the belief that we must finally have a country where hard work and merit, rather than looting public funds, amount to something. This war is not about APC or PDP, we must learn in this country to dissociate facts and logic from ethno-religious sentiment and party affiliations.

A couple of weeks after Youth and Sports Minister, Barrister Solomon Dalung exhumed an already dead crisis in the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, election, he may be stirring another crisis in basketball with his secret meeting with a body declared illegal by the Nigeria Basketball Federation, NBBF.

With a population of over 180 million and growing, Nigeria with an average power generation of 4,500mw, requires 12,000mw megawatts to ensure steady power supply, but ultimately needs 200,000mw for all her electricity requirements. To meet this power need, the present administration has vowed to look towards other sources of producing electricity away from the hydro and gas-powered plants, which has been a source of epileptic power supply into the national grid.

Those who think that Nigeria will not have broadband penetration across the country in the near future should better have a rethink. Basking on the euphoria of the planned auction of the 2.6GHz spectrum at $16m per slot and the release of auction time table last week in Lagos, the Nigerian Communications Commission, has said that the road to broadband boom in the country is very close.

ABUJA— As part of efforts to develop a well-coordinated National Emergency Response System, the Federal Government has disclosed plans to audit all emergency response agencies operating in the country to determine their capabilities, both in times of emergency caused by insurgents and in everyday life occurrences.

By Prince Osuagwu AS Nigeria currently undergoes harsh economic weather where businesses are suffering and business executives, small and medium enterprise (SME) owners eagerly looking for solutions to their present economic predicaments, Oracle  has promised to bring an innovative change in the way businesses are run. Although the country has been part of the evolution of […]

Kano Pillars skipper Gambo Mohammed, who suffered a head injury in last weekend’s league game at Rivers United, has been discharged from hospital.

A lawyer, identified as Ndubuisi Uhugbu, has been arraigned before an Aba South Magistrate’s Court presided over by Chijioke Nwogu after he allegedly failed to produce a client he took on bail at the Police Area Command, Aba.