Peaceville Entertainment artiste, Cleo Thelma Orji, better known by her stage name, Headgurl is a Nigerian singer, rapper, songwriter and sound engineer born and raised in Lagos to a family of six, where she made her music debut as a member of a female rap group called Dem Gurls at the age of fourteen.

By Sola Ogundipe In response to the community transmission phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria, Emzor Pharmaceutical Industries recently rolled out its COVID-19 Response Programme tagged Emzor Cares. In the views of the Group Business Development Manager, Emzor Pharmaceutical Industries, Lagos and Ogun states, Ms Chinyere Kelvin, the programme comprises series of interventions to […]

Investors raked N534 billion in the first week of post-lockdown trading as market sentiments surged on the backdrop of the low prices of equities as well as the inflows of budget facilities from the International Monetary Fund, IMF.

Cost of funds in the interbank money market is expected to fall this week in response to inflow of N330 billion from maturing treasury bills (TBs).
Cost of funds rose sharply last week following outflow of funds for retail foreign exchange auction and N100 billion commitment to the secondary market (Open Market Operation, OMO) TBs conducted by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in the previous week.

As part of the initiatives to curtail the effect of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on investors, Afrinvest Asset Management Limited has floated a $2million Afrinvest Dollar Fund, a flexible solution that allow investors to diversify their portfolio of investment.

One of the major issues I have with the current government in Edo State led by Governor Godwin Obaseki, was the decision to run a non-inclusive government.

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. […]

Nigerian Christian Hip-hop music singer, Protek Illasheva has released a new body of work titled ‘Counter Culture’. The gospel music album is a paradigm shift from the normal thought process of the everyday person; in a time and age where the phrase “Do it for the culture” is a prevalent statement.

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.

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 […]

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.

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, […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]