By Owei Lakemfa The abduction of 317 school girls of the Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe, Zamfara State, last Friday, February 26 is even more tragic because we as parents and adults once again failed to protect the Nigerian child. It is distressing that this is the fourth mass abduction of children in their schools […]

China’s leaders on Friday set a growth target “above six percent” for 2021, putting it back above pre-pandemic levels, after the virus was largely brought under control at home thanks to strict lockdowns and mass testing. The goal comes after the world’s number two economy suffered its slowest rate of expansion in four decades because […]

An international charity warned on Thursday that South Sudanese are facing life-threatening food shortages following last year’s drop in harvests. Robert Mardini, the Director-General, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), said this in a statement issued in Juba. The ICRC said in its latest assessment that communities in nine out of 10 states harvested […]

It is always refreshing to see successful business entities participate in charitable giving. Social consciousness goes a long way for a company’s reputation. Some customers are loyal to particular brands for this very reason. Obaid Belresheed took note of this and incorporated philanthropy into his vast empire. Belresheed, or OB, is a tremendously successful Emirati […]

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Lagos Command, has paraded a man, (name withheld) for allegedly dealing in illegal foreign Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) card business. The NSCDC, Lagos Commandant, Mr Paul Ayeni, while parading the suspect on Thursday in Lagos, said that the 35-year-old was caught on March 3, around 5p.m. at […]

SOMEONE forwarded an article to me last week. I have no idea who wrote it because no author’s name was attached. But I’m told that it has been endorsed by one of the most senior economists in Nigeria.

Fast rising Nigerian afro-beat musician, Michael Samuel Isonguyoh, better known by his stage name, ’24 Morals’ has dropped a smashing new single titled ‘Ebelebe’. The song emanates from the stables of one of Nigeria’s foremost entertainment outfit, Mic Rock Entertainment and Extreme music. The single is off 24 Moral’s EP titled ‘Success’, billed to drop […]

The World Health Organization (WHO) has scrapped plans for a team that visited Wuhan, China to probe the origins of the coronavirus pandemic to issue an interim report, The Wall Street Journal reported late Thursday. Wuhan is the city where the pandemic  is believed to have originated in late 2019. The WHO team returned recently […]

The Police Command in Delta, on Thursday, confirmed it rescued 16 kidnap victims in Ogor, near Ughelli South LGA of Delta. The Command spokesman, DSP Bright Edafe, said in a statement in Asaba, that the victims were rescued on Wednesday. “On March 3, 2021, at about 19.37 hrs, a distress call was received that about […]

Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, Mohammed Nami yesterday placed their revenue projection for 2021at N5.9 trillion.