The directive by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for the Pilgrims Travel Allowance (PTA) to be sold to intending pilgrims at N197 to $1 has, understandably drawn sharp criticisms, coming at a time that factories cannot get enough foreign exchange to import crucial inputs and parents are finding it difficult to pay the school bills of their children studying abroad due to the scarcity and high cost of foreign exchange.

Delta State governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, has urged the Nigerian Guild of Editors to continue to support efforts geared towards the diversification of the Nigerian economy.

FOR the second time in one week, pensioners in Edo State have grounded commercial actives at Kings Square and other adjoining streets in protest against the non-payment of their pension arrears ranging from 10 to 42 months.

SUSPECTED pirates, yesterday, attacked a military checkpoint at Tombi waterside in Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, killing three soldiers.

The rapturous applause that greeted his exit from the Table Tennis event of the Rio Olympics could have been mistaken for a victorious ovation. Nigeria’s legendary table tennis icon Segun Toriola exited the Games on Sunday but held his head high the way only legends do.

THE Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, yesterday said it was confident that the prices of crude oil would rise by next month as against the current low prices at the International market.

Come August 17, 2016, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the most popular and most populous political party in Africa, would be holding its national convention where it is expected that a new set of the party’s national working committee members would be elected to stir the ship of the opposition party back to its glory days.

Ikeja Electric Plc, in an effort to facilitate the recovery of debts owed it, has commenced a Debt Discount Initiative for customers under its network.

I was going to call Gen Yakubu Gowon out three weeks ago to say something on the raging debate in the country over the structure of Nigeria.I had written the piece half-way before I archived (no pun intended!) it after an inner voice told me to still hold on. I titled the write-up “Gowon,should we go on this way ?”

As Nigeria battle with emerging diseases, health experts has raised alarm over increasing cases of asthma among students, saying adequate nutrition would prevent diseases such as asthma and ulcer among others.