The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 40-year-old man for allegedly raping his neighbour’s daughter.

A Yoruba-based youth group, Progressive Yoruba Youth, on Sunday, warned the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), against raising false alarm over the proposed nationwide exercise tagged, Operation Python Dance III, introduced by the Nigerian Army. The group, while addressing journalists in Lagos, said PDP is only shedding crocodile tears over the exercise. PYY National President, Comrade […]

TWO  wrongs never make a right – whether in politics or in private relationships. President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria placed the 2019 Budget before the National Assembly, NASS, in late December, approximately three months behind schedule and then had the gall to ask the lawmakers to pass the budget in the national interest. That is bad leadership. A good leader builds with both hands; a bad leader who gives good advice but provides bad example builds with one hand and destroys with the other. When it comes to annual budgets, Buhari has spent the last three and a half years constructing with one hand and demolishing the edifice with the other.

THE organised labour, Sunday, mourned the demise of Nigeria’s first executive president, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, saying that the country would have been industrialized if not the 1983 coup that sacked the Shagari’s government.

By Owei Lakemfa BROTHER Seriake Dickson, Governor of Bayelsa State  has made a call on President Muhammadu Buhari  to set the tone for a debate on  restructuring in the country. I don’t know why people like teasing the President who had said he does not know what restructuring means even when it was in his […]

THE late Prof. Samuel Aluko was probably Nigeria’s best known Economist, until he passed on in 2012. In addition to his prowess as a notable scholar and sage, he later served as Chairman of the National Economic Intelligence Committee, in the Abacha Administration, and arguably provided the robust intellectual anchor to the military Dictator’s successful Economic Programmes, in which, despite Nigeria’s international pariah status, the naira notably remained stable at around N80=$1, even when the foreign reserves base was a paltry $4bn.

Four policemen arrested last week for dispossessing a Togo-based Nigerian, who was returning home for the Christmas celebration, of 350,000CFA, have been dismissed from the Force.

The Nigerian Army said, yesterday, that  it was working towards relocating the residents of Baga, a community in Borno State, to safer locations.

The Chief Executive Officer, Access Bank Plc, Mr Herbert Wigwe, in this interview, spoke on a lot of issues surrounding the proposed merger between Access Bank and Diamond Bank Plc as well as the benefits of the merger to the shareholders, customers and banking industry among others. Excerpts:

THE execution of Nigeria’s 2019 budget will likely encounter a serious threat as the price of Bonny Light, the nation’s premium oil grade, yesterday, hovered at $52.72 per barrel in the international market.