Onabrakpaye, others for 2023 MUSON Festival
The cast and crew of Ruggero Leoncavallo's 'Pagliacci', a T.Y Danjuma's Opera, can't wait to mesmerise the audience with a thrilling performance at this year's MUSON festival. The love play described as a stage performance within a stage, is billed for Sunday, October 22, 6pm at the Agip Recital Hall.
‘Return’ of petrol subsidy
If indeed the Federal Government has resumed paying petrol subsidy, it is just another indicator of policy failure.
People who forget their past, can’t have a good future, By Owei Lakemfa
The conversion of public spaces, parks and waterways into private estates, offices and residential areas is not uncommon across the country. It is a main reason for flooding in many urban centres.
Standard Chartered projects $1trn Africa export trade by 2035
Standard Chartered Bank has projected that African exports will hit almost $1 trillion by 2035 with a potential boost of 30 per cent from the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
Group decries lull in economic activities in South East
A group of lawyers under the aegis of Otu Oka Iwu Nigeria has lamented the slowdown in the level of economic and business activities in the South East, while blaming the situation on the insecurity in the region.
Foreign investments in manufacturing up 88% to $861m
Total inflow of foreign investments into the Nigeria’s manufacturing sector increased by 88.17 percent year-on-year (YoY) to $861.16 million in the first half of 2023 (H1’23) from $457.66 million in the corresponding period of 2022 (H1’22).
Stock market responds positively to new FX policy
The Nigerian stock market displayed a positive performance on a Week-on-Week, W/W basis, on the heels of the removal of foreign exchange , FX restrictions on 43 consumer goods by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN.
Itsekiri Protests: Group faults attempt to drag monarch into mischief
A security watch group, Warri Urban Security Network (WUSN), has described the report indicting a first class monarch in Warri as sponsoring a protest demanding the removal of the NNPCL’s Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO), Melee Kyari, as false, baseless and unfounded. It would be recalled that a group had in a report at the […]
SNA October Rain for Fasuyi, others
In conjunction with Lagos and Ogun State chapters of the Society of Nigerian Artists, SNA, Tim & Carol Gallery of Art, Ikeja, is hosting a novel edition of the annual October Rain exhibition that will thrill art enthusiasts across the two states.
Forum advocates nat’l rehabilitation, reformation to rebuild Nigeria
A stakeholders summit held to x-ray Nigeria’s current challenges and proffer possible solutions to them have called for national rehabilitation and reformation to rebuild the country.
People Talk: On former governors receiving pensions and salaries as senators
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio and nine other former governors in the 10th Senate over their collection of both salaries and pensions as senators. People talk took to the streets to get reactions On former governors who are receiving pension and salary as […]
