The Lagos State Government on Friday intensified public advocacy and sensitisation to the emergence of the second wave of COVID-19. This was done through the interaction between the staff of the Ministry of Information and Strategy, led by the Director of Public Enlightenment, Mr Toyin Adeni-Awosika, and members of the public. The sensitisation team engaged […]

By Emmanuel Aziken When Senator Magnus Abe last Monday insinuated that followers of the minister of transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, were running loose in Rivers State, it again brought to light the fickleness in relationships among Nigeria’s political class. His assertion followed what he alleged as the disruption of a gathering of his supporters in Buguma […]

By Ifeanyi Okolie Operatives of the Force Intelligence Response Team, IRT, have unravelled the circumstances surrounding the gruesome murder of a middle-aged man, Francis Atache, whose corpse was found in a bush at Makurdi, Benue State, in August 2020. Atache, who was a staff of the National Open University of Nigeria, NOUN, in Benue State, […]

By Ikechukwu Amaechi TODAY, Thursday, January 7, 2021, is exactly one week since Nigerians, together with the rest of humanity, ushered in with gusto, a brand new year. Certainly, 2020 was the archetypal annus horribilis – a terrible year of disasters and misfortune. A year many wished never was. In the past one week, many […]

….Nigeria’s tech space would become most viable in Africa — Microsoft Just as global technology giants including Google Inc., HUAWEI, and top social networking company, Facebook, another international tech heavyweight, Microsoft Corporation, has disclosed plans to partner with the Federal Government for the benefit of the Nigerian people, especially young people. Specifically, Microsoft is now […]

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, says that the bed occupancy level in the state’s public and private COVID-19 care centres has increased to 51 per cent.

The community in Awgu local government area of Enugu state has among other scholarly prizes awarded doctoral degree scholarship to deserving indigenes of the community.

By Dirisu Yakubu THE 2023 presidential aspiration of the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, got a boost with the inauguration of the Yobe State chapter of Amaechi Vanguard, a non-governmental organization championing his quest, yesterday, in Nguru. Amaechi is among a horde of southern politicians said to be pushing to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in […]

The Management of Kresta Laurel Ltd has urged the media to stop linking the company to the unfortunate incident at Cocoa House, Ibadan, where an elevator crash killed one and injured three others. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that one person was reportedly killed and three others injured on Wednesday, while four technicians […]

Chief Samuel Okoronkwo, the Ebonyi Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, says Gov. David Umahi is free to support a candidate of his choice in the upcoming Ohaneze Ndigbo general election.

By Shina Abubakar – Osogbo Osun State Government has approved Monday, January 18, 2021, as the official resumption date for schools in the state. A public service announcement signed by the Coordinating Director of the State Ministry of Education, Kehinde Olaniyan on Tuesday, disclosed that the Education Commissioner, Folorunsho Oladoyin has inline with the advice […]

Global competition for the earth’s scarce resources gets increasingly frenetic,with each passing day. This continuous struggle between available resources and yearning global needs, has resulted in a new approach to governance, that better guarantees continuous prosperity. We shall call this style of governance, executive capitalism, which is partly a win win symbiotic arrangement, where private capitalist companies are in close relationship with the Chief Executives / governments of their respective countries. The companies get unlimited government money, intelligence, and patronage; resulting in bigger, more profitable companies that are better able to employ more of the country’s nationals. The companies are also better able to pay proportionately larger taxes to the government.

The Chief Executive Officer of Inkas Vehicle LLC based in the United Arab Emirates has said that the pandemic is the reason they have not launched their operation in Nigeria as they promised they would in 2020. Due to the scourge of the Coronavirus pandemic the launch was put on hold. “We were ready to […]

By Oludayo Tade WITHIN two weeks of the conditional suspension of the nine-month strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, the Federal Government has stuck to her notoriety of flouting agreements willingly reached with the intellectual union. As intellectuals, the union was wise when it said the strike would be ‘conditionally […]

•‘Cross River govt made us lose everything; when will they rescue us?’ By Jacob Ajom It has always been a thing of joy for the kids, in particular, anytime we decide to travel to the village as a family. The last time we did that was during the burial of my late father, Pa Jerome […]