The Group Managing Director, Adron Homes, and Properties, Aare Adetola Emmanuelking today visited the newly crowned Olubadan of Ibadanland. Oba (Senator) Olalekan Ishola Balogun, The real estate mogul visited the new Oba in his palace to felicitate with him on his installation as the 42nd Olubadan of Ibadanland. It will be recalled that the Oyo […]

“Be patient my soul, thou hath suffered worse than this.” There were cases of bad fuel before in this country. We slept for days, weeks on end at petrol stations, queuing for fuel. We survived. We will survive again. Las las.

By Adekunle Adekoya Some people are so poor, all they have is money.” — Song by The Brain Cell I feel very depressed, utterly despondent, totally dejected that some people can be thinking of certain things. One of such things was a bill that proposed life pension for the top four leaders of the National Assembly. For clarity, […]

By Adekunle Adekoya “Some people are so poor, all they have is money.” — Song by The Brain Cell I feel very depressed, utterly despondent, totally dejected that some people can be thinking of certain things. One of such things was a bill that proposed life pension for the top four leaders of the National […]

The walkout by Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, from a meeting with protesting students last Monday was unbecoming and immature. He did not act with the necessary restraint and dignity that befit his high office. The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, led by its President, Mr. Sunday Asefon, had visited him in his […]

By Innocent Anaba A former Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF, and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke, has written current AGF, Mr. Abubakar Malami, absolving himself of any complicity in a case by the Federal Government against American Bank, JP Morgan Chase. In a letter written by his lawyers, Paul Erekoro, SAN, among others, Adoke […]

It’s obviously not the easiest of times in our country currently, what with severe fuel scarcity exacerbating the other existential challenges we have been coping with. In some areas, there’s no fuel, no electricity, thus translating to severe energy crisis.

MANY youths in Abuja have continued with the hawking of Premium Motor Spirit otherwise known as petrol, in the streets despite the stance of government that the police authorities should go tough on anyone doing so.

By Luminous Jannamike United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Leonard, has said that the eyes of the world will be on Nigeria this year and early next year, as the country prepares to choose a new president and transition to a new government, saying the Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE and members of civil society group […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the coming of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) 50 years ago created the awareness of the need to make climate and environmental action a priority for the entire world, while urging concerted action to make the organisation’s efforts a success story.

March 8 is marked around the world as International Women’s Day. For many women in Africa, including those in the agriculture sector, it will be just another day where invisible barriers hold them back from their true potential

*Police move to dismiss Abba Kyari before extradition *Extradition to provide him opportunity to clear himself —Source *NDLEA files 8-count charge against him, 6 others By Kingsley Omonobi, Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA — Few days after the Federal Government approved the request by the United States for suspended Commander of the Police Intelligence Response Team, DCP Abba […]

By Davies Iheamnachor PORT HARCOURT— Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has stated that the All Progressives Congress, APC-led Federal Government has kept making promises while the people only get failures, reiterating that it was time to vote out APC. Wike also said the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has the capacity to reverse the suffering […]

By Donu Kogbara SOMEONE recently made  a very interesting assertion on Twitter, being that “Nigeria is only one truly great leader away from being a superpower”. Many netizens disagreed because they believe that it will take much more than one truly great leader to not only drag an ailing country out of the doldrums but […]

IT used to be a dreaded route. The mere mention of Makurdi-Yogbo-Udei-Branch-Udei Road-usually evoked fear and anxiety for one major reason: mass killings. Security men, farmers and passers-by perished in large numbers along this axis of evil.