Despite the challenges in the country’s operating environment, Lagos Building Investment Company LBIC, says it recorded a commendable profit before tax of N1.161 billion in the year ending 2024 representing a growth of 40 percent over the N829 million profit recorded in the previous year, just as it projects into the future of the company.

By Henry Obetta Nigeria and China have pledged to strengthen their strategic partnership during a colourful joint celebration held in Lagos on Sunday. The event, which marked Nigeria’s 65th Independence Day, China’s 76th National Day and the Mid-Autumn Festival, brought together top government officials, diplomats, business leaders, cultural groups and students from both countries. Chairman […]

Kenya has officially designated the Muslim Brotherhood and Hizb-ur-Tahrir as terrorist entities under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (Cap. 59B), the Star (Kenya) has reported. Kenya has now joined countries such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Russia, which have formally designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organisation. The declaration, […]

Nigerian speaker, author, and family life strategist, Fowowe, Principal Consultant of Praise Fowowe Research, pioneers family life innovation

For many residents of Lagos Island and Apapa, two coastal areas vulnerable to flooding and sea-level rise, climate change is no longer an abstract debate on global platforms.

For nine years, she waited. She watched friends cradle their babies. She endured questions from relatives, pity from neighbours, and cruel whispers behind her back.

At dawn in a farming village outside Abidjan, mothers gather to prepare breakfast—boiled cassava, maize porridge, or rice.

Fifteen women entrepreneurs from Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, and Asia Pacific have been recognised for their work in tackling health and food security challenges through the 2025 Bayer Foundation Women Entrepreneurs Award, in partnership with the Impact Hub Network.

By AMINU JAHUN The title for this piece is borrowed from  Ian Fleming’s fifth James Bond series “From Russia With Love”. Whereas  Fleming explores post- Second World War relations between the former Soviet Union, an emergent global power and the declining BrItish Empire in his book, this piece briefly discusses the Generation Z-led protests akin to […]

From last week continues the narrative of how President Olusegun Obasanjo suspended Governor Joshua Dariye of Plateau State from office and dissolved the State House of Assembly following religious crisis in the state.  He immediately appointed the former Chief of Army Staff, General Muhammed Chris Alli(rtd) (December 25, 1944 – November 19, 2023), as Administrator of […]