THE Minister for Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr Niyi Adebayo, has said the African Continental Free Trade Area, AfCFTA would eliminate tariffs on 90 percent of tradable goods over five years for developing countries and 10 years for least developed countries.

With the denial of a US visa to Austin Eguavoen, Aigbogun was to lead the team against Mexico, but latest reports say coach Gernot Rohr is expected to be in the dugout when the home-based Super Eagles take on Mexico. The German tactician has now linked up with the team in the United States and had a training session with the team yesterday.

By Segun Odegbami, My climb to the rooftop of Mount Olympus in Greece in 1976 was a divinely scripted and unforgettable experience. Fortyfive years after, it’s significance is now becoming manifest. In my limited (unsubstantial) understanding, the Universe should know the end of an event or act even before it starts, confirming the revelation in […]

By Muyiwa Adetiba The economic stats for Nigeria haven’t been good for quite a while and the consequent quality of life of an average Nigerian has been on the decline. The situation predated this administration. In fact, arresting the societal rot and improving the quality of life and living were among the campaign issues of […]

As part of measures to ward off people gathering at the Gani Fawenhimi Freedom Park, Ojota, Lagos, venue of today’s, Saturday planned mega rally by Oodua Republic secessionist agitators, armed Policemen and men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, and others have cordoned off some parts of Ikorodu Road and environs, resulting in heavy traffic around the axis.

The picture of Lagos-based All Progressives Congress, APC chieftain, Mr Joe Igbokwe kneeling in thanksgiving upon news of the capture of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra, IPOB has stirred strong emotions. While the majority of Igbokwe’s ethnic group, the Igbo, do not subscribe to the rhetoric that have been associated […]

The economic stats for Nigeria haven’t been good for quite a  while and the consequent quality of life of an average Nigerian has been on the decline. The situation predated this administration. In fact, arresting the societal rot and improving the quality of life and living were among the campaign issues of this administration. Unfortunately, while […]

Following Usifo Ataga’s murder, she was the cynosure of all eyes last Thursday, at the Lagos State Police Command Headquarters, Ikeja, Lagos.

The kinsmen of the Leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, have said that arresting their son would not in any way bring solutions to the multi-faceted problem of the country.

Recently, operatives of the Force Intelligence Response Team, IRT, raided a hideout of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, at the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, where members of the group where caught donating money they said would be sent to their Supreme Leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, to fund the activities of the group in the Southeastern part of the country.

STAKEHOLDERS of Niger-Delta disagreed, yesterday, on some important provisions in the newly-passed Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, by the National Assembly, as some leaders stated the measly three-five per cent equity share to host communities would trigger crisis in due course, while others said it was another landmark by President Muhammadu Buhari administration.

•We were told Biafra would offer us jobs when achieved •We were sad about the killings in southeast but … •Kanu’s messages hypnotised us •Kanu’s kinsmen to FG: Why have you not crushed bandits, terrorists; Why didn’t you arrest Shekau if you could arrest Kanu this way? •Arresting Kanu won’t solve Nigeria’s problem, find out why he’s […]

Yoruba rights activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, a.k.a Sunday Igboho could be likened to a cat with many lives. His assailants, fully armed with sophisticated weapons stormed his residence in Soka area of Ibadan at 1.35 am on Thursday with a mission to kill and to destroy.

By Emeka Obasi He was all fun, wore different faces, exhibited some uncanny traits and remained a brave man till his last seconds.  Major General Eugene Chiazo Godwin Nwanguma, known as Gwuris by many rose to command a division of the Nigeria Army. In 2009, Nwanguma was posted to the 81 Division as General Officer […]

By Tony Eluemunor It is a pity that the call for Nigeria’s restructuring (in all ramifications) has given rise to a Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and his arrest. I fear we may not learn the right lessons from this sordid episode. In the preface to his first collection of essays, Morning yet on Creation Day, Chinua […]