Ondo profile club celebrates 31 years, honours eminent Nigerians

Ondo profile club celebrates 31 years, honours eminent Nigerians

By Dayo Johnson, Akure The profile club of Ondo, a community-based organization of accomplished individuals in Ondo kingdom, has marked its 31st anniversary with a lecture and award ceremony. Delivering the keynote address, Justice Olabode Adegbehingbe of the Court of Appeal, charged members not to relent in their efforts at giving back to the community, […]
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The Politics of Hate and a Message of Peace

The Politics of Hate and a Message of Peace

By JOSEPH OPIGO A pleasant winter’s eve brought us out to the lawns of the university campus. As I lamented the unavailability of transport for me to attend the Christmas carol service at St Andrews church Colchester a voice from the crowd of students responded, “I will take you there”. He was a Palestinian who […]

2023: Equity investors rake N13tn, highest in history

2023: Equity investors rake N13tn, highest in history

Amid rising insecurity, inflation, interest rate hike, foreign exchange crises and other macroeconomic challenges, as well as the uncertainty in the global economy, investors in the Nigerian stock market raked in N13.0 trillion gains in the year 2023.

A country in perpetual mourning

A country in perpetual mourning

By Nick Dazang Nigeria has not only become a vast killing field, it has, become, sorrowfully, a country in perpetual mourning. Not a week passes than we witness dastardly acts of abductions, kidnappings and killings. Sometimes these killings take place on genocidal scales. On Sunday, 3rd December 2023, the village of Tudun Biri, in Igabi […]

Qatar-based bizman, others to spend new year in custody for drug trafficking

Qatar-based bizman, others to spend new year in custody for drug trafficking

By Kingsley Omonobi Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a Qatar-based businessman, Agu Evidence Amobi, and one other, Uchegbu Onyebuchi Obi with consignments of psychoactive substances at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos. “The spokesman of the agency, Femi Babafemi, yesterday said: “While Amobi was arrested on Saturday, […]

Nollywood actor, Zack Orji slumps in toilet, hospitalised in Abuja

Nollywood actor, Zack Orji slumps in toilet, hospitalised in Abuja

By Benjamin Njoku Anxious fans and celebrities have been praying for one of Nollywood finest actors, Zack Orji, following a viral video, yesterday of the veteran actor in a critical condition in a hospital. The bearded actor is said to be in critical condition after he slumped in the toilet weeks back.He is being attended […]

APC defends Tinubu over delayed December salaries of workers

APC defends Tinubu over delayed December salaries of workers

By Omeiza Ajayi The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday rose in defence of President Bola Tinubu over the December salaries of federal workers which were delayed and paid two days to the new year. Federal workers across the country, including security personnel, had celebrated the 2023 Christmas without their salaries, with some of them […]