Costa Rica was expected to receive its first batch of Covid-19 vaccines late Wednesday and planned to start vaccinations the following day, joining Mexico among the first Latin American countries to begin mass immunization campaigns. “Tonight we are going to receive the first vaccines. Tomorrow the first Costa Ricans will be vaccinated,” President Carlos Alvarado […]

Against the backdrop of transferring unclaimed dividend into the Federation Account as proposed in the Finance Act 2021, the shareholders under the aegis of Independent Shareholder Association of Nigeria, ISAN, have pleaded to the government that Part V of the Act which made the stipulation be expunged.

US President Donald Trump warned Wednesday he would hold “Iran responsible” in the event of a fatal attack on Americans in Iraq, as the first anniversary of the killing of a top Iranian general in a US airstrike approaches. “Our embassy in Baghdad got hit Sunday by several rockets,” Trump said on Twitter, referring to […]

By Mary Obaebor AUGUSTINE University, Ilara-Epe, Lagos State has turned out its second set of graduating students.  Speaking on the occasion, the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Christopher Odetunde, said five out of the 38 graduating students got first class degree, while 20 got Second Upper Class, 11 in the Second Lower Class and two with Third […]

FCT Minister Muhammad Bello on Wednesday inspected the Idu COVID-19 Isolation and Treatment Centre as part of FCTA’s commitment to effectively fight any second wave of the pandemic in Abuja. The information is in a statement issued by the minister’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr Anthony Ogunleye in Abuja. Ogunleye stated that Bello, who was accompanied by […]

China has launched an anti-monopoly investigation into Alibaba, regulators said Thursday, heaping further pressure on the e-commerce giant and sending its share price tumbling. Regulators will also hold “supervisory and guidance” talks with Alibaba’s gigantic financial services subsidiary Ant Group, state media reported, just weeks after its record-breaking IPO was halted at the last minute […]

Mrs. Adebisi Adesola is CEO and Founder, The Meat Mill, a meat butchering and processing company in Nigeria. The entrepreneur bares her mind, in this chat with WO, on the need to change societal attitudes towards the way we treat our food,  especially in the meat industry in Nigeria. Excerpts: Why on earth would you […]

By Emma Ujah, Abuja The Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) has refuted reports that it diverted N14 billion from the proceeds of the privatisation of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN). According to a statement by the Head, Public Communications of the agency, Amina Othman, the funds generated from the privatisation exercise of […]

By Anthony Kolawole PhD President Muhammadu Buhari has asked Nigerians to give the nation’s service chiefs and security agencies more time to adequately address the security issues bedeviling the country. The President in his Christmas Message to the people, called on Nigerians to support and cooperate with the service chiefs and security agencies by giving […]

DELTA State Government has disbursed over N33 million to 255 rainstorm and fire disaster victims from four communities in four Local Government Areas in the State to mitigate their sufferings and improve their livelihood. 

Barely a few days to the end of the year, the price of Nigeria’s Bonny Light has stabilised at $50 per barrel in the international market, about 25 percent above the 2021 budget benchmark of $40.

By Ebunoluwa Sessou As part of efforts to mark the 16 Days of Activism of Eradication of Domestic and Sexual Violence, the Lagos State House of Assembly concluded plans to give legal backing to any agency that ensure speedy justice on Gender Based Violence, GBV. This was part of “A Bill for a Law to […]

ALAN Durning in his book, How Much Is Enough? throws up stunning statistics. He records that the world throws away at least 200 billion bottles, cans, plastic cartons, paper, and plastic cups each year. These discarded items, besides feeding consumption lifestyles, also create mountains of wastes across our cities which in turn poses the challenge […]

By Abdulmumin Murtala, Kano Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano state has described critics of his administration’s handling of some public properties, including the Triumph building, Daula Hotel in the state as primitive with vague understanding for politicizing the move saying they can’t see beyond their noses. He made the statement while on an inspection tour […]

By Samuel Oyadongha, Yenagoa Ijaw youths have declared their readiness to shut down the headquarters of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, in Port Harcourt over the continued refusal of the Federal Government to appointment a substantive board for commission. The youths drawn from the western and eastern zones of Ijaw nation under the aegis […]