By Dr Abdullah Shuaib We became friends in 2008 when I assumed office as the pioneer Executive Director/CEO of Zakat and Sadaqat Foundation, Lagos, where I initiated media parley with the management of the foundation. Waheed Bakare was among the several Muslim journalists that honoured my invitation even though he knew me not before that […]

Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information, Culture, and Tourism, says the Federal Government is yet to receive the promised ventilators from the United States of America (USA). The minister said this at the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on Coronavirus (COVID-19) daily news conference on Thursday in Abuja. The minister was reacting against the backdrop […]

An estimated 2.1 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week despite the gradual reopening of businesses around the country, bringing the running total since the coronavirus shutdowns took hold in mid-March to about 41 million, the government said Thursday. In a glimmer of hope, the overall number of people currently drawing jobless benefits in […]

Nigerian Power Consumers Forum (NPCF) has faulted the removal of Mr Usman Gur Mohammed as the Managing Director, Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) saying the action may jeopadise the $1.661 billion multilateral agencies funded power projects in the coun

The price paid by passengers  for bus, motorcycle and water way journeys rose despite  the decline in the petrol price in April.

The outgoing Acting Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Ms Mary Uduk, yesterday, presented her scorecard, stating that under her leadership, the register of capital market operators was sanitized.

The Lagos State, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has been  urged to pay more attention to agriculture to avert  food crisis in the  State after the COVID-19 pandemic.

By Chioma Obinna To commemorate this year’s Children’s Day, Mothers and Marginalised Advocacy Centre, MAMA Centre, has called for sustained proactive policy environment for the adequate social, cognitive, and physical development of Nigerian children. Making the call in a press statement signed by the Executive Director, MAMA Centre, Barrister Ola Onyegbula who noted that despite […]

Porsche has x-rayed it performance in the first three months of the year under COVID-19 pandemic.: The company’s operating result fell by 34 percent at €0.6 billion as compared to the previous year. The return on sales was 9.5 percent. Deliveries were down by 5 percent. The company handed over 53,125 vehicles to customers by the end of March. Since the beginning of the year, the workforce grew by one percent to 35,866 employees.

TRANSPORT companies whose buses (luxury and mini) have been off the road since the advent of COVID-19 may not be able to recover from the ban on inter-state transportation if the Federal Government does not quickly intervene with financial support to save them from collapse.

COMMUTERS in Lagos State are lamenting the hike in fares which have gone up by 200 percent across the state since the introduction of  curfew by the Federal Government.

Demands immediate investigation, punishment of perpetrators By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja The Civil Society Joint Nigeria Crisis Action Committee, JN-CAC, Nigeria Mourns, Thursday, disclosed that the nation recorded1, 416 violent deaths in the first quarter of 2020 as it commemorates the third National Day of Mourning today (Thursday) to create awareness on violence deaths and […]

By James Ogunnaike – Abeokuta Operatives of the Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) in conjunction with men of the So-Safe Corps on Wednesday apprehended no fewer than five passengers, including the driver who was on transit from Benue State to Abeokuta, Ogun State. The Public Relations Officer of TRACE, Babatunde Akinbiyi, who disclosed this […]

By Azu Ishiekwene HEALTH Minister, Osagie Ehanire, has been in hot water lately. It’s hard to sympathise with him because he jumped into the cauldron with his eyes open, wearing his trademark black cap. And not once. The first time was when Ehanire appeared before the House of Representatives to answer questions about the welfare […]

By Owei Lakemfa THE victims of the coronavirus, COVID-19, are not only those who contracted it. Not just those who lay helpless in hospitals, homes and isolation centres hoping to survive or waiting for death. They are not only the doctors and nurses, pharmacists and technologists, radiographers and medical workers who in a universal war […]