Nigeria records N5.2trn trade surplus in Q1’25
By Elizabeth Adegbesan Nigeria recorded N5.17 trillion trade surplus in the first quarter of 2025 (Q1’25). This represents a 52 percent quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) rise when compared to N3.4 trillion recorded in Q4’24. On a year-on-year, YoY, basis, trade surplus grew by 17.5 percent from N4.4 trillion in Q1’24. The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, disclosed this yesterday […]
Tinubu, the Niger Delta and a match made in Heaven
By DENNIS OTUARO The Niger Delta has never had it so good, enjoying a period of peace, stability and development. Although some challenges remain, the last two years under the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, have indeed been momentous for the region. Consequently, age-old grievances are melting away, hope is renewed, and the cry of […]
June 12: If Abiola won, is he now a posthumous president? By Olu Fasan
Exactly 32 years ago today, the presidential election of June 12, 1993 was annulled by the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida that conducted the poll. Over three decades after that seismic decision, the truth, the whole truth, about why the election was annulled and who actually annulled it remains unknown. General Babangida’s long-awaited memoir, A […]
June 12: Group presses for credible polls, electoral justice
As Nigeria marks 32 years since the watershed June 12, 1993 presidential election, the Non-Partisan Progressives Movement of Nigeria (NPPMN) has renewed its call for urgent electoral reform, advocating for credible polls, justice, and institutional accountability as indispensable pillars of a thriving democracy.
As Uma Eleazu, an oasis of moral rectitude, turns 95, by Ikechukwu Amaechi
Over the years, I have had strong personal relationships with five great Igbo personages, who were and still are global personalities in their own right – Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu, Professor Ben Nwabueze, Dr Pascal Dozie, Professor Anya O. Anya and Dr Uma Eleazu. Though three of these great men are now of blessed memory, these […]
Women in Delta community protest lingering insecurity
WORRIED by the insecurity caused by the ongoing leadership tussle in Okpavuerhe Olomu Community of Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State, angry women, yesterday, protested to the council chairman, Dr. Lucky Avweromre, urging him to intervene and restore normalcy.
