Yesterday, Femi Kuti and his siblingscelebrated their late father, afro-beat legend, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, on his posthumous 80th birthday.

Crises arising from the recent primaries of All Progressives Congress, APC, deepened, yesterday, after Minister of Communications, Mr. Adebayo Shittu, took the party to court over his elimination from governorship primaries in Oyo State.

IN 1999, the entire South West  was under the control of the Alliance for Democracy, AD. When we were approaching the 2003 elections, I told my boss, former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, to give me the authority to take over the South West from the AD for the party.

AS Nigeria prepares for the 2018 Mining Week, Miners Association of Nigeria (MAN), disclosed that about 100 mining companies from 20 countries are expected to attend on October 16, 2018.

ABUJA – Surgical Aid Foundation (SAF), a non-governmental organization, has promised to underwrite the bill of about 250 poor Nigerians in need of surgery for prostrate cancer and kidney stone diseases.

THE Federal Government has said it is wooing a bitumen investor, Lakel Group, into the mining sector to mine bitumen and create jobs for Nigerians.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said it is concerned with rising losses that emanate from cybercrime and technology risk in the financial sector and is working on the modalities for new regulations.

AS part of  Global HandWashing Day and in continuation of its “A Million Clean Hands” programme, Saponaria Industries, maker of Sanitol range of hand sanitisers, celebrated the day at Ilupeju Primary School, Lagos in the presence of teachers, children and Headmistress with distribution of soaps to children and cleaning products to the school.

IN February 2018, Vice President of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo described MTN as a classic example of the many success stories of Foreign Direct Investments, FDIs, in Nigeria. Prof. Osinbajo noted this much during the launch of a policy laboratory aimed at accelerating the intervention of the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan, ERGP. The ERGP initiative is catalyst for the required $35 billion to bridge Nigeria’s massive infrastructure gap over a six to seven year period. The deficit in Nigeria’s infrastructure is the main reason it was listed as the country with the largest number of poor people in the world. As the  pressure from a lack of resources in power, roads, education, healthcare and industrial capacity continue to erode the quality of life for an exploding population, our government officials – career civil servants and political appointees alike – play hard and fast with one of the most globally effective tried and tested mechanisms for bridging these gaps; public private partnerships, PPP, backed by foreign investment.

ABA— THE death toll from last Friday Osisioma fuel pipeline explosion has risen to 200, even as protesting youths from the host communities of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, depot, yesterday, shut operation at the facility over the incident.