President Tinubu, terminate the dodgy £746M ports deal
By OBIAGELI ‘OBY’ EZEKWESILI One hundred and fifty two days after President Bola Tinubu signed a £746 million ports financing deal with the United Kingdom at Windsor Castle, neither government has disclosed the terms of the agreement. I initially held back from commenting, prioritising Nigeria’s spiraling insecurity. But the persistent silence surrounding this deal and the pattern of […]
At the Altar of Price Stability: Credit, growth and CBN’s balancing act
By Dr Tope Fasoranti “Stability is not everything,” the German economist and former finance minister Karl Schiller once observed, “but without stability, everything is nothing.” Nigeria in mid-2026 increasingly demonstrates the wisdom of the second half of that proposition. It may also be approaching the point at which the first deserves greater attention. Consider where […]
‘Stop waiting for symptoms’, Nigerian scientist tells citizens as silent diseases rise
A medical laboratory scientist and Founder of The White Coat, Ekwy Onyekwele, has warned Nigerians against waiting for obvious symptoms before taking their health seriously, saying many life-threatening diseases begin silently and may progress for years before they are diagnosed.
Clearing agents petition police over alleged assault, truck detention
By Esther Onyegbula LAGOS — The National Compliance Joint Taskforce of Licensed Clearing Agents, NCJTFLCA, Seme Border Chapter, has petitioned the Nigeria Police Force, Area ‘K’, Seme Area Command, over alleged assault, intimidation, extortion and unlawful detention of trucks involving the Chairman of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents, ANLCA, Seme Border Chapter. In […]
FCT floods: Residents must share blame, stop dumping refuse in waterways — Agbese
“Blaming Wike for the flood in the FCT is like the Israelites blaming Moses for helping them to the Promised Land,” Agbese said.
Educators urge FG to implement mother-tongue policy
By Olayinka Latona LAGOS — The Federal Government has been urged to move beyond policy formulation and urgently implement a compulsory mother-tongue education policy across Nigerian schools to preserve the country’s cultural identity and promote national development. The call was made by a newly inducted Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters, NAL, Prof. Oladele […]
