PRIVATE school owners and teachers have cried out to the government for help, as their means of livelihood is being seriously threatened by the ravaging coronavirus pandemic.

Nigerian Postal Services (NIPOST), on Wednesday, said the organisation would continue to discharge its responsibilities to the populace in spite of the inferno at its corporate headquarters on Wednesday morning. The General Manager, Communications, Mr Franklin Alao, gave the indication in a telephone interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). NAN recalls that the head […]

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, ICAN, has deployed technology to ensure accountants provide improved services to clients, even as it conferred fellowship status on qualified members.

The Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers (CIS) has announced the election of Mr Olatunde Amolegbe as its new President and Chairman of the Governing Council, succeeding the incumbent President, Mr Adedapo Adekoje after the Institute’s maiden virtual Annual General Meeting (AGM).

Nigeria may have recorded significant shift in energy consumption pattern with National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, data showing massive drop in kerosene imports while a significant increase has been recorded in diesel import.

THE Vice Chancellor of Bowen University, Iwo, Osun State, Prof. Joshua Ogunwole, has urged government at different levels to prepare for the aftermath of coronavirus as he opined that life would not remain the same afterward. While alerting the government of the effect of the pandemic on the economy, he charged the people to braze up for the challenges post COVID-19 will pose for the society, especially in the area of human relation.
He disclosed this while donating relief materials to the people of Iwo and Oluponna to cushion the effect of lockdown on the vulnerable residents of the towns, adding that the world would not remain the same as global economy would rely more on virtual interaction, hence, the masses must be prepared for the new reality.

Uchenna Idoko is an economist that specialises in gender and gerontology. She has worked on gender equality programming and gender-inclusive policy development for nineteen years with a variety of NGOs, donor agencies, and government MDAs. She has been working with older adults and their families in rural Nigeria for over 5 years. Uchenna is the […]

As numbers and mortality continues to rise in the country in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic,   it is more critical than ever to keep families safe from the kitchen first and foremost Three major nutrients have been identified as being particularly essential in the building of the body’s natural immunity to the coronavirus; experts […]

By Rufus Olusesan IT is no longer news that COVID–19, a pandemic that is spreading around the globe, originated from Wuhan in China and has infected and killed many in Europe, Asia, America, Africa, including Nigeria. Globally, the pandemic has exposed capitalism for having paid a greater premium on the private accumulation of capital and […]

By Ikechukwu Amaechi MANY Nigerians are still in denial over the COVID-19 pandemic that is ravaging the entire world. And they are not just ordinary Nigerians. Governors Ben Ayade of Cross River and Yahaya Bello of Kogi have openly called it a hoax. To drive home his point that the coronavirus hullabaloo is a ruse, […]

As part of his efforts to actualize the vision 0202-2020, a new and unique Social media community called SamzugaNet has officially been launched by Bishop Dr. Sam Zuga, Jehovah’s Field Marshal.

By Chinedu Nwoye ONE of my long-time admirers and friends, Ken Okafor, called me on my 45th birthday two weeks ago and stressed the need for us to do everything in our powers to urge or propel Prof. Cee Cee Soludo to run in the next governorship election in Anambra State. I was taken aback […]

The recent appointment of Ibrahim Agboola Gambari as the Chief of Staff (CoS) to President Muhammadu Buhari has been in the headlines for various reasons, some positive and others not so. Depending on the angle it is viewed from, the position is very important, hence all the commentaries. We have chosen to see it from our own lenses, and for very compelling reasons.

By Olu Fasan PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari will be five years in power this month. Next week, on May 29, he will complete the first year of his second term, and thus has three more years in office. But, according to the theory of presidential election cycle, the last year of a presidential term is usually […]

DESPITE broad hints by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 that President Muhammadu Buhari would make his fourth pandemic national broadcast on Sunday, May 17, 2020, nothing of the sort happened. It was Boss Mustapha, the Chairman of the Task Force, who informed Nigerians of what might have been the President’s address during PTF’s routine […]