Oil price reverses gains, falls 0.8% despite escalating US-Iran hostilities
By Obas Esiedesa, Abuja Global oil prices eased by 0.82 per cent to $84.24 per barrel on Wednesday as investors took profits after the previous day’s sharp rally, although renewed military confrontation and escalating rhetoric between the United States and Iran continued to underpin fears of disruptions to global crude supplies. Brent crude, the international benchmark, […]
United Nations can scrutinise Nigeria’s school abductions
By Wale Adewale Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Jimoh Ibrahim, has argued that the United Nations lacks the power to investigate the Oriire school abduction because it is a domestic security matter. That proposition sounds authoritative, but it is contradicted by both history and the United Nations’ own record. It is a […]
IMF, President Tinubu and the transparency challenge
By Moshood Oshunfurewa If we are to reincarnate the late Chief Gani Oyesola Fawehinmi (1938–2009), a legendary Nigerian human rights lawyer, publisher, author, social critic, and Senior Advocate of the Masses (SAM), on the current budget imbroglio, 2% of GDP, and Gbaja/Adeyemi scandal, I might not mistake his line of words as thus: “Let us call […]
NFF: Need for a new beginning
Nigeria’s absence from the 2026 World Cup is not fate. It is the bill finally arriving for years of reckless housekeeping at the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), and those responsible must be made to pay for it. Our football history shows that Nigeria rarely loses to better teams. It loses to itself. Rabat, en route […]
Oyo abduction and Makinde’s call for UN probe, by Ikechukwu Amaechi
There is no well-meaning Nigerian who is not relieved that the Oyo State kidnap saga ended happily despite the eight fatalities and the 56 agonising days it took to embrace the light at the end of what was, to all intents and purposes, a very dark chapter in Nigeria’s beleaguered history. The mass abduction, which took […]
FG, NDDC mobilise $500m Niger Delta agric fund to galvanize food production
…..N’Delta most peaceful region for investment – NDDC boss By Gabriel Ewepu ABUJA – THE Federal Government, Wednesday, mobilised a $500 million Niger Delta Agricultural Investment Fund to galvanize food production, employment generation and industrialization in the Niger Delta region. The Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima while delivering his speech at the Niger Delta Agricultural […]
