The Nigerian Institution of Marine Engineers and Naval Architects (NIMENA) is set to hold its Annual Conference/AGM in Port Harcourt, Rivers State next week.

By Gabriel Ewepu ABUJA – THE Federal Government, Thursday, resolved to back and fund a newly launched programme christened ‘National Urban Agricultural Programme, NUAP, to boost food production and fight hunger. The assurance was given by the Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Security, Dr Aliyu Abdulahi, while pointing out the necessity for urban […]

TWO major reports on the anti-corruption landscape made the headlines these last few days. Both left me wondering about the mental state of the perpetrators, given the sheer scale of what they were up to. All of us still remember the late maximum dictator, General Sani Abacha. Since his passing, it has come to light […]

The proverbial long arm of the law has scored another big hit, with the arrest, diligent prosecution and sentencing of the robbers who invaded Offa town in Kwara State on April 5, 2018. It was a bank robbery unlike no other. Beyond the use of explosives to burst bank vaults, the gangsters embarked upon an […]

I was watching the evening news on Monday night when two presenters used a word at different times that jolted me. I’ve heard and seen that word used often, especially by millennials and Gen Z, but I didn’t entirely pay heed because they were mostly in informal settings.  Anyways – I meant to write, anyway – […]

A group of northern youths, Arewa Youths Initiative For Energy Reforms (AYIFER), have called on the Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO) of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL), Mallam Mele Kyari, to do all within his powers to deliver the Kaduna refinery on time and in good standards.

Europe and the United States are full of white folks who resent foreigners – especially black and brown ones – and want to put a stop to both legal and illegal immigration. This is why I don’t understand why a significant number of Nigerians voted for Donald Trump or cheered him on from afar. Given that he […]

By ANDREW ERAKHRUMEN Organised sporting activities tend to mimic some real life occurrences and human responses, or is it the reverse? Sports mean different things, occupy different spaces and serve different purposes, in different person’s life and living. Sports may be underrated but many among them have assumed somewhat larger than life statuses. We do not […]

PRESIDENT Bola Ahmed Tinubu flies the world like a mother bird in search of food for the hungry in its nest. He is a tireless traveller traversing the world, signing strings of trade agreements to shore up a troubled economy. He has embarked on 33 foreign trips in 18 months, visiting 18 countries. His favourite places […]

Financial experts in Nigeria and diaspora have made case for Nigerians to be economically empowered through financial inclusion, and expressed worries that despite the emergence of mobile banking, only 64 per cent of Nigerians can access financial services.

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide has condemned recent attacks on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, by “self-serving politicians.”According to the group, these individuals, driven by seh interests, are attempting to undermine Nigeria’s democratic institutions. The group, in a statement by its National President, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, said the attacks are being orchestrated by […]

Senator Ireti Kingibe is truly leaving an indelible and indestructible mark in the sand of time just as her epoch ways of making history beats description and imagination

If I begin by saying that Gbolahan Olanipekun is a self-taught artist, I would stir the controversy often surrounding that term. Is any artist self-taught? Or should we take the middle course offered by “formally” and “non-formally” trained artist? But the exciting reality about Olanipekun is that he did not study art in the university. […]

By Dennis Agbo A Humanitarian and Development agency, the Catholic Caritas Foundation of Nigeria has disclosed that above the United Nations, UN target, 98 percent of identified persons living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus, HIV, in Enugu state have been virally suppressed from transmission of the disease. This is as the state government further disclosed that […]

In his determined effort to boost the employment drive of the state, Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano State has approved the employment of 70 lawyers. The initiative, according to the governor, would no doubt paved way for the enhancement of effective service delivery in the legal sector of the state. Supervising the final interview […]