AS agricultural revolution continues to unfold with new innovations and creativity, the Nigerian Incentive –Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending, NIRSAL, Thursday, launched maiden NIRSAL Farmers Business School, FBS, to provide capacity building and boost farmers’ performance, productivity and profitability.

The fabric is the fashion designer’s artistic medium and this makes understanding the nature and behaviour of fabrics an important skill to learn. Today, let’s explore the meaning of grainlines and the important role they play in the final design and correct hang of the garment What are grainlines? Grainlines indicate the yarn direction in […]

By Adeparua Damilola A piece titled ‘Women and their politically denied rights’, by this same author centered solely on the rights of women which are denied them on the political terrain. This piece discusses how women’s lives are less valued in the society. A report concerning a woman who was beaten to death by her […]

The Chief Executive officer of indigenous e-commerce platform Sellbeta, Emeafu Elvis Chibuzor has said that with the outbreak of the Coronavirus Pandemic, more e-commerce businesses and platforms will spring up in Nigeria.

The German media conglomerate Axel Springer has announced it is buying the US media group Politico. It will be the largest corporate takeover in the company’s history, Springer said in Berlin on Thursday. An agreement for the complete acquisition was signed with Politico founder Robert Allbritton on Thursday. Springer declined to disclose the price it […]

Since 1990 (after the end of the Cold War), the Security Council, through several resolutions, has been developing a broader definition of the term ‘threat to the peace’. The definition covers civil wars, violations of human rights and terrorism, among others says Mónica Lourdes de la Serna Galvá, an International academic of Latin origin, in […]

The Chairman Senate Committee on Local Content and lawmaker representing Oyo Central Senatorial District, Senator Teslim Folarin is billed to deliver 2021 Lecture of Oyo State Branch of Alumni Association of the University of Ibadan.

By Femi . A Stephen Time, without any doubt, waits for no one. Even the Preacher, Solomon confirms it in the Holy Bible in the book of Ecclesiastes 3:1-8. The governorship contest in 2018 which generated unnecessary brouhaha and culminated in variegated political groups and deep-seated factions within the two dominant political parties in Ekiti […]

Pilots and other stakeholders in the aviation industry have called on Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN and Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, to ensure that the navigational aids at the Port Harcourt International Airport are immediately fixed and updated to prevent a fatal accident.

By Donu Kogbara SINCE the Taliban triumphantly marched into Kabul nearly a fortnight ago, many people have gloomily predicted that Nigeria will suffer a similar dire fate at some point in the not-too-distant future. After all, we too have deadly vipers in our collective bosom, as in home-grown and foreign Talibanesque Islamic extremists – ISIS, Al […]