Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State on Wednesday signed the state N115.7 billion 2021 budget into law. Speaking at the ceremony in Lafia, Sule expressed gratitude to members of the State House of Assembly for the speedy passage of the budget. He said that the signing of the budget tagged ‘Budget of Economic Recuperation’ would […]

TODAY, December 31, Nigeria joins the rest of the world to say good riddance to 2020, a year eviscerated by COVID-19. A recent TIME magazine cover says: “2020 Cancelled: The worst year ever”! Of course, 2020 is the year of Nigeria’s 60th independence anniversary, and of my 60th birthday. So, I won’t dismiss it as […]

By Davies Iheamnachor, Port-Harcourt At least two people have been feared dead with about two others injured in a cult war that erupted between rival cult groups in Luubara Community, Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State. It was gathered that unknown gunmen suspected to be cultists on Tuesday night reportedly killed two persons at […]

By Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, OFR, CON PRIOR to colonisation, hunger and famine were alien to most African countries as there was widely-acknowledged food sustenance. Each household practised one form of farming or the other and consequently, there was enough to feed the family while the excess was exchanged by barter through some other forms […]

A community leader and High Chief of Iwo, Abiola Ogundokun said Nigerians harbour too much hatred towards each other for any government to sanction the use of arm by individuals.

By Nkiruka Nnorom CAPITAL MARKET Domestic investors have extended their dominance in the equities market with the value of their investment outstripping that of the foreign investors by 272.16 percent at the end of November, 2020. Specifically, the domestic investors’ commitment in equities rose to N250.50 billion as against N67.31 billion invested by their foreign […]

Hundreds of Lagosians have benefitted from the massive empowerment put up by Dr O.Yomi Sholoye Foundation to alleviate poverty in the State.

By Gabriel Ewepu As African Continental Free Trade Area, AfCFTA, set to take off in 2021, the President of Federation of Agricultural Commodity Associations of Nigeria, FACAN, Dr Victor Iyama, has raised concerns that without fixing the nation’s precarious power problem she will be disadvantaged in the stiff competition from other African countries, as he […]

By Hassan A. Nguru One of the endless discussions on Nigeria’s cyberspace and across the media is; if it is worth it, for Nigeria to maintain upper and lower chambers of the legislature. As a democracy, doing away with the legislature is out of the question. But the at the centre of these debates is […]

Still wondering on the idea which  LASU’s current and potential stakeholders, as well as visitors, maybe consensual about? It’s the spiralling, seemingly insurmountable failure of community support for the university. Such is this challenge unmistakable that you may simply conclude that it doesn’t seem like LASU is anyone’s pride.