How are the mighty fallen. Tell it not in Gath nor publish it in the streets of Ashkelon. The above Biblical expression aptly captures the kind of unexpected fall of the Eleruwa of Eruwa, Oba Samuel Adegbola.

Investdata Consulting Ltd will on Saturday, December 7, 2019, hold its yearly edition of its summit where investors and analysts will review this year’s equity market and the dynamics and trading opportunities in the equity market and Nigerian economy in 2020 and beyond.

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) and Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), yesterday, said it has intensified petroleum products monitoring and surveillance activities across the country, aimed at forestalling any hitch in fuel supply during the Yuletide.

The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs,  Sen. Godswill Akpabio, has called on critical stakeholders and multilateral organisations to invest more in Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to move the region forward. Akpabio made the call at a meeting with directors, donor agencies, permanent secretaries and development partners in Abuja on Thursday. He said the ministry […]

AGEING is a natural process, but some age faster due to a variety of reasons including ill health, lack of good nutrition and troublesome children who raise their blood pressure. The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, NATO, established primarily to counter the defunct Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR, has aged quite fast due to some of these reasons. So much that when its 12 biological and 17 adopted children gathered in Britain to mark its 70th, it was difficult to say whether it was really a social party or a gathering of grumbling children amongst whom there was no love lost.

The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted sunny and hazy condition over the country on Friday. NiMet’s weather outlook on Thursday in Abuja predicted deterioration of visibility over North with prospects of sunny and hazy conditions. It further predicted chances of early morning fog and mist over some parts of the coast in the morning […]

Amirah, Women Leader of the Al-Mu’minaat, (The Believing Women) Lagos State Chapter, Hajia Khadijah Abdulsalam, has urged parents to protect the girl child describing her as the future of humanity.

In the wake of the recent attack on a tanker vessel named, ‘Nave Constellation’, the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, has said that the Agency is working in collaboration with the Nigerian Navy, NN, to ensure the release of the abducted seafarers as well as securing the lives of the remaining crew onboard.

Two tennis players, Joseph Imeh and Sylvester Emmanuel, have qualified for the quarterfinals in their respective games in the ongoing Rainoil Tennis Open, men single defending champion. Christian Paul, who was seeded 13, Imeh had to dig in deep to win at 7/6 (3), 5/1 to move closer to the title race. It was at […]

CONSIDERING the urgent need to diversify the country’s economy, there is no better time than now to promote the non oil sectors in the country.

THE setting up of the Creative Industry Financing Initiative, CIFI, by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, in collaboration with the Bankers’ Committee to improve access to long-term low-cost financing to entrepreneurs and investors in the Nigerian Creative and Information Technology sub-sector, is both timely and a step in the right direction.

GOVERNOR Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, has commissioned the newly-built Critical Care Unit, CCU, building at the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital Complex, UNIMEDTHC, in Akure, Ondo State.

LAGOS — THE Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, has said that Yoruba Language remains one of the contents of liberation for the race, insisting that no country can develop without promoting the culture, tradition and heritage of the race. 

At the backdrop of the recent Gross Domestic Products, GDP, reading of 2.3 percent for the third quarter 2019, The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, LCCI,  yesterday, said Nigeria’s economy is not growing fast enough to create opportunities for its population, which is growing at 2.6 percent.

Jaiz Charity and Development Foundation and its partners, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the American University of Nigeria (AUN) have put smiles on the faces of 120 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Damasak, Borno State with training and empowerment tools.