By Etop Ekanem In a bid to strengthen customer connection and support households in managing post-festive financial pressures, FoodCo, a top-five retailer in Nigeria and operator of the largest supermarket chain in the South-West, has launched a new year promotional campaign. The campaign offers discounts across a wide range of products, including essential groceries, fresh […]

The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has commended the Acting Vice Chancellor of the Tai Solarin Federal University of Education, Prof. Adekunle Adeogun, for his leadership style which it described as student-centric.

For decades, Makoko stood as one of Lagos’ most controversial urban spaces. To some, it is an eyesore, a floating slum that highlights the city’s planning failures. To others, it is a living testament to resilience, culture and survival amid systemic neglect. The recent demolition of parts of Makoko has reopened a familiar debate: is […]

The broadcast regulator, the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, is planning a review of the sixth edition of the Nigeria Broadcasting Code, and has sent out a notice to various stakeholders, asking them to ‘speak now’ in order to ‘help shape the new Nigeria Broadcasting Code.’ One of the final lines is particularly very interesting. ‘Let us […]

Three major occurrences that could have further complicated the parlous state of Nigeria’s economic and political situation occurred between October and December, 2025. It started when Donald Trump suddenly designated Nigeria a Country of Particular Concern for the persecution of Christians in the Middle Belt of the country. Coming shortly after Abuja had quietly laid […]

By Chioma Obinna The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, on Wednesday said Nigeria’s most decisive victories against fake drugs, unsafe foods, and illicit products did not begin with raids or arrests but with law. The Director General of the Agency, Prof. Mojisola Christianah Adeyeye, who disclosed this at a media […]

By MOSHOOD ISAMOTU  By the time the number of road crash fatalities that occurred across Nigeria during the 2025 year-end activities to date is finally computed, it will be gut-wrenching, eerie and blood-chilling. From Jigawa to Abakaliki, Omu-Ekiti, and Itu in Akwa Ibom State, and indeed across the country, it was as if the roads were […]

“Development is not a gift from the outside; it is the outcome of a people’s own efforts“— Julius K. Nyerere Africa’s quest for industrialisation did not begin recently with China, nor does it depend on China for its intellectual legitimacy. Even before Beijing emerged as a major development partner on the continent, African leaders had already […]

Whereas Sterling Petroleum Energy Exploration Company, SPEECO, is still celebrating its 10th year Anniversary of oil exploration, indigenes of its host oil-rich Ogwu-Ikpelle, a riverine community located in Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State, are currently embarking on an angry protest against what they catalogued as hunger, oil spillage, poverty, negligence and environmental degradation.

The Afro-Arab Youth Council (AAYC) has stressed that meaningful youth participation remains critical to achieving lasting peace in Sudan, following a high-level engagement with the Embassy of the Republic of Sudan in London.

Ehikwe gifts Ika’s version of the Lordsprayer to Americans By Jimitota Onoyume The Pan African People, a sociocultural pressure group comprising Africans residing in Columbia, Carolina, United States of America (USA), has bestowed a chieftaincy title – Adolor of the Pan African People – on Daniel J. Rickenmann, Mayor of Columbia, South Carolina, for his […]

Housing Development Advocacy Network (HDAN), has expressed deep concern over the ongoing demolition of homes in the Makoko area of Lagos State, which has left many residents displaced and uncertain about their future.

By Peter Duru, Makurdi The Benue State Government has commenced the distribution of Teaching and Learning Materials (TLMs) donated by the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) to public basic education schools across the state. Performing the flag-off at the Benue State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) headquarters in Makurdi, on behalf of Governor Hyacinth Alia, […]

In a nation yearning for leadership that blends competence with compassion, vision with service and intellect with integrity, one name is steadily rising across the plains and hills of Kogi East. That name is Dr. Mahmoud Alfa. He walks with the quiet confidence of a man who has spent his life building institutions and shaping […]

The patient is massive — the “Giant of Africa” — standing tall, boisterous, and bursting with visible energy. But a trained eye would spot the tremors immediately