NEWLY inaugurated Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Mr. Nsima Ekere, yesterday, promised that the commission will be restructured and returned to its core mandate particularly in the area of regional development and integration.

Kunle Oguneye, Country Manager, Mall for Africa. He is a young and vibrant entrepreneur who sees business opportunities in Nigeria despite economic recession, even in e-commerce. In this interview with Moses Nosike of SMEs & Entrepreneurship Saturday Vanguard, he advised young Nigerians to develop entrepreneurial skills and find opportunities here.

Jero is a deity. In church, at PTA meetings, and when he condescends to his town union meetings, he conjures unfathomable dignity. Not the glory of politicians that fades quicker than cheap ‘ankara’ but a permanent invocation of raw awe. Once in a while, at the old boys’, he lets them have the privilege of his scarce humanity. Only a few of his classmates still remember he was never a genius. JB was inconspicuous. Jeroboam, the Justice, is a masquerade.

A non profit and non governmental organisation fully registered in Nigeria, Nove Health Africa saddled with the responsibility of creating awareness on mental health seeks to collaborate other players of the Nigerian economy to achieve a holistic approach no emotional and psychological well-being in economic crisis.

Mavin first lady Tiwa Savage, Davido, Phyno, Ycee, and Timaya made a momentous mark as headliners during their performance at ‘3 Thrones Concert’ which held recently at Eko Hotel Convention Centre, Lagos.

The Department of State Services ,DSS has officially confirmed to widows of its seven operatives who were ambushed by militants at Ishawo area of Lagos , that they are dead.

A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja was yesterday told how the former Director-General of Nigeria Maritime Administration Safety Agency (NIMASA), Patrick Akpobolokemi and others requested for N496 million from a former National Security Adviser and diverted it to their personal u

Ado-Ekiti-No fewer than 8,850 youths in Ekiti state will soon start receiving monthly stipends and other forms of empowerment from the state government.

Laughter is back in the land. For it goes without saying that there can be no laughter when Rangers are not in fine fettle. It started very long ago. There had been the Nigeria-Biafra War which brought bitterness across the country.

Police detectives have foiled plans by 90-year old man, Pa Adeola Ajidahun who is facing trial at Igbosere Magistrate’s court alongside a Pastor with the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Fullers Field Parish in Ajah area of Lagos over Lekki Land re-settlement fraud in Eti-Osa , Lagos to go on self-exile in an attempt to escape trial.

Esther Quist is a delectable Ghanaian lady who has bigger dreams than her size would ordinarily lead you to believe. A triple-major graduate of Computer Science, Business Administration and Psychology from a university in Poland, she has set aside her degrees to manage a blossoming artiste management company, Red Nation. In this interview, she speaks more about the label and the music industry as a whole.

Coach of the Algerian soccer team, Georges Leekens feels that the injury of Eagles goalkeeper Carl Ikeme has swung the pendulum in favour of his side ahead of next weekend’s 2018 World Cup qualifier with Nigeria at the 30,000-capacity Godswill Akpabio International Stadium,, Akwa Ibom.

ABUJA- SENATE President Bukola Saraki said yesterday that if Nigeria must get out of the present recession, the country must ensure that vibrant private sector thrives.

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has condemned the release of the five suspects who allegedly murdered an Igbo woman, Mrs Bridget Aghaneme, in Kano over alleged blasphemy by the court, describing the judgement as concocted.

Last weekend, I attended the 80th birthday celebration of Mr Ben Lawrence. It was hosted by his nephew, Nosa Igiebor, the CEO of Tell Magazine, a weekly news magazine that played a prominent role in the June 12 saga. The ‘party’ was all that I expected; a quiet get-together of veteran journalists—mainly of the defunct Daily Times stock—who had paid their dues to the pen profession.