By Victor Ahiuma-Young Leaders of National Union of Railway Workers NUR and its Senior Staff Association, SSA, Railway Branch, have directed the workers of the Nigeria Railway Corporation, NRC, to embark a three-day nationwide strike effective Thursday, November 18, 2021, over poor welfare.The leaders of the two in-house unions, in a circular issued late Friday, […]

By Prisca Sam-Duru When the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, unveiled ‘Next Level’ as its slogan during the 2019 presidential elections, Nigerians didn’t expect to experience a devastating next level characterised by bloodshed, violence and diverse societal ills.  Truth is, before ‘Next Level’ was fully activated on Wednesday, May 29, 2019, Nigerians have been experiencing […]

The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), the leading philanthropy empowering African entrepreneurs from all 54 African countries, has selected 4,949 entrepreneurs from across Africa for its 2021 Entrepreneurship Programme.

By Evelyn Usman September 18,2021 was like every other day for 64-year-old Godfrey Zwalmark, a retired Army Captain, who worked as Chief Security Officer of a multinational company in Eleme, Port Harcourt, Rivers State. He had gone to inspect the company’s pipeline at Agbonchaia area of Eleme, without an inkling that it would be his […]

By Sylvester Kwentua Screen goddess, Tonto Dike, has categorically come out to declare that she has developed trust issues after some harrowing experiences in recent times. She says she is done gifting cars and money to men who date her. In a blunt but funny response to an admirer who sounded her out on her […]

ANAMBRA Stat governor –elect, Professor Chukwuma Soludo has described the woman who rejected the bribe of N5,000 to influence her voting during the just concluded governorship election as exhibiting the true spirit of a typical Anambra person.

THE Anambra State governorship election has come and gone, with the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, the candidate of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, sweeping the polls and has been declared the governor –elect. He will be sworn in on March 17, 2022 when the incumbent governor, Chief Willie Obiano would end his tenure.

The frantic efforts of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara state towards improving the lots of his people and make the state far better among its peers in the country have continued to attract accolades from stakeholders from far and near.

Renowned communication scholar, Professor Ralph Akinfeleye, has called for an urgent review of the National Broadcasting Code, describing the extant edition, issued last year by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), as inconsistent with democracy.

The current debate over the suitability of the direct primary election for all political parties might as well be an opportunity for President Muhammadu Buhari to indelibly imprint his identity on the exalted pages of posterity.