Electricity workers in the country have issued a 14-day strike notice to the management of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, over unresolved labour issues, threatening to down tools if the management fails to address their grievances. Under the aegis of the National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, the workers among others, decried the management’s […]

2023: How far can Third Force go?

Artificial bum market booms

MEMBERS of the public, especially the youth, have a lot to learn from the daylight drama that played out in the Asokoro, Abuja home of Senator Anayo Rochas Okorocha. On Tuesday, May 24, 2022, operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, after hours of siege to Okorocha’s premises, broke into his house through […]

By Nick Dazang ON June 10, 1942, LIDICE, a town in former Czechoslovakia, was completely destroyed on the orders of Adolph Hitler and Heinrich Himmler. The reason for LIDICE’s destruction was in reprisal for the assassination of Reich Protector and Governor of the strategic Bohemia and Moravia, Reinhard Heydrich. Reinhard Heydrich went by several sobriquets […]

Stock market upbeat despite profit taking, investors gain N596bn

By Ibrahim Hassan-Wuyo Few days after the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governorship primary election in Zamfara State where Dauda Dare was declared winner, Ibrahim Gusau and two other contestants have petitioned PDP headquarters, alleging irregularities. In a letter of complaint, Gusau and the duo of Wadatau Madawaki and Aliyu Hafiz Muhammad claimed the state party […]

By Owei Lakemfa The  Kings Assembly Pentecostal Church, in Port Harcourt announced that it would be handing out food packs to the needy from 9am on Saturday, May 28, 2022. Envisaging a large turn-out in Nigeria’s oil-rich city, the church wisely picked a mini-stadium as venue. What, however, it did not envisage, was a mammoth […]

Banks’ earnings rise faster than economy growth rate

2023: APC Govs gang up against Jonathan

•Says ‘I’ve fulfilled my promises to Mr President’ By Luminous Jannamike Abuja—Former Governor Ahmad Sani Yarima of Zamfara State and presidential hopeful under the All Progressive Congress, APC, has said he has fulfilled all his past promises to President Muhammadu Buhari, and deserves to lead the country after him. The ex-governor at a press conference […]

Tension in Jerusalem ahead of Israeli ‘Flag March’

2023: APC chieftains finger Osinbajo as party’s best bet

By Chukwuma Ajakah After a brief sojourn in Europe where he had gone for the proverbial greener pastures in 2016, arts promoter and collector, Raphael Akinnire returned to Nigeria with a heart set on doing something special in his fatherland, but tried unsuccessfully in diverse vocations, including furniture-making until he again left for the United […]

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