Electricity: How TCN’s 624MW network will boost supply to FCT

Unlike today’s fresh journalists, those of us who joined the profession in the early 70s had golden opportunities of attending professional training courses outside Nigeria. One of the courses I attended which has  remained indelible to me even after several years of retirement from service was on how to develop journalistic courage. Interestingly, it is not the […]

By Peter Duru, Makurdi A group, the Benue People of Conscience, B-POC has said the Federal Government has no moral justification to prevent Benue state government from accessing a loan facility of N41.39billion to clear backlog of pensions and salaries of workers in the state. The B-POC noted that if the Federal Government was borrowing […]

By Olasunkanmi Akoni Lagos State Government has deployed more body cameras to the Lagos Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, personnel as part of measures to enhance transparency in traffic management and enforcement in the state. The Special Adviser to the Governor on Transportation, Sola Giwa, presented the gadgets at the weekend, to zonal heads of the […]

By Benjamin Njoku British-Nigerian actress, Oyenike Oyewunmi Olabintan popularly called Toyin Nike recently went down memory lane, recalling how she quit the football pitch for acting because of injury and what fate had in stock for her. The mother of two children, whose debut movie, “Identical Justice” is currently enjoying rave reviews in the UK, […]

By Olasunkanmi Akoni All Progressives Congress, APC, Professionals Council, a group within the ruling party, has commended the choice of the lawmaker representing Ikeja Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, James Faleke as Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign General Secretary, saying it would lead the party’s to victory in 2023. The Director General of APC Professionals […]

By Benjamin Njoku 2022 has been an eventful year for popular filmmaker cum director, Ambassador Lancelot Imasuen, who was recently conferred with an Honorary Doctorate degree by the African campus of Rescue Mission Theological University, Atlanta,in the United States. This is even as the respected film director was hosted late last month by the Markk […]

“It is unthinkable that wisdom should ever be popular” – Johann Goethe, 1749-1832, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS p 275. A sick and dying lion is a pathetic animal to behold. I was in Kenya in 1983, and went to the reservations. We came upon a sick lion, lying on its side, unable to move. It was […]

Renewable: Proliferation of inexperienced, substandard components, others threaten operations – Gennex

By Benjamin Njoku It was an evening filled with music and fun recently, as the fast-rising singer Sophia popularly known by her stage name , Adaeze,  made a grand entry into the Nigerian music scene. The Canada-based Nigerian singer, flew into the country days back to be part of her father’s 80th birthday celebration billed […]