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Arts and Culture journalist, Udemma releases first novel

Arts and Culture journalist, Udemma releases first novel

By Osa Amadi Arts and Culture journalist, Udemma Chukwuma, has joined the league of literary prose writers with her first novel, Left with Shadows. The novel, expected to hit the bookstores from June 2020 will also be launched as soon as the COVID-19 pandemic which has disrupted all human activities globally recedes across the federation. […]

Q1’2020: Banks’ losses to bad loans double

Q1’2020: Banks’ losses to bad loans double

Reflecting the impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and devaluation of the Naira, financial performance, banks’ losses to bad loans shot up by 99 percent in the first quarter of 2020 (Q1’2020), which caused profit growth rate to fall by 29 percent.

Fela has no co-creator of Afrobeat

Fela has no co-creator of Afrobeat

Multiple facets of the ground-breaking Afrobeat genre Fela’s amazing creativity brought By Ola Balogun Of recent, considerable confusion was created by some misinformed commentators whose misguided enthusiasm has led to the propagation of a mistaken notion that Afrobeat was somehow “co-created” by a prominent drummer who performed with Fela for many years. The least that […]

WAKING UP LAZARUS AT POLARIS BANK

WAKING UP LAZARUS AT POLARIS BANK

The story by Nike Popoola went on to say that:“POLARIS Bank Limited said it recorded N27.8bn profit before tax in its first audited IFRS 2019-compliant financial result.

General Buhari was more democratic than President Buhari

General Buhari was more democratic than President Buhari

By Owei Lakemfa President Muhammadu Buhari was Military Head of State from 1984-85. His claimed principles including a zero-tolerance for corruption and fierce patriotism in that era partly propelled his return as a two-term elected – not necessarily democratically elected – President. He encapsulates Karl Marx’s assertion  that: “History repeats itself; first as a tragedy, […]

Resort to Oronsaye Report not enough

Resort to Oronsaye Report not enough

FIVE years after assuming power, President Muhammadu Buhari has initiated moves to implement one of his 2015 campaign promises: reducing the size of the Federal Government. The twin blows of Coronavirus pandemic and the steep crash of crude oil price which left Nigeria with little money to spend may have compelled this. That is unfortunate. […]

CoS: Nigerians in Diaspora laud appointment of Gambari as a plus for country’s image abroad

CoS: Nigerians in Diaspora laud appointment of Gambari as a plus for country’s image abroad

By Subomi Adejare The Nigerians in Diaspora Monitoring Group (UK) has hailed President Muhammadu Buhari’s choice of Prof. Ibrahim Gambiri as his new Chief of Staff. In a communique issued and signed by Prince Oni, Director of Publicity at the end of an emergency virtual meeting on Thursday, the UK-based Nigerians described the diplomat’s appointment […]

Boko Haram: Why Fake News Is Detrimental

Boko Haram: Why Fake News Is Detrimental

By Richard Murphy We are in an era where fake news has contributed immensely to the propagation of violence and mutual suspicion in Nigeria. It is quite saddening why some individuals would elect to turn the truth on its head just for cheap popularity. These set of people do not care about the implication of […]