.Say reliance on subvention outdated. By Adesina Wahab The era of universities solely depending on their promoters for periodic subvention is over, as they now have to think of ways of getting revenue from other sources to be able to stay afloat. That was the submission of experts at a two-day Commonwealth Institute Universities Leaders […]

A senior commander of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has defected to the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) after a journey that reportedly took him through South Sudan, India and Saudi Arabia before he appeared in Khartoum earlier this month.

By Peter Egwuatu  After the sustained rally recorded in the previous weeks of May 2026, profit-taking by investors last week have taken toll on the Nigerian stock market. Analysts noted that the profit-taking was mostly in major blue chip and mid-cap companies that had paid dividends to their shareholders. A review of activity on the Nigeria […]

By Suleiman A. Suleiman In the first instalment of this series last week, I made three points. First, I argued, against the grain, that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s recent creation of a parallel Special Adviser on “Homeland Security” is not an administrative or operational adjustment. It is, I said, a purely political move that signals […]

LAGOS— OPERATIVES of the Zone 2 Command of the Nigeria Police Force have uncovered a major drug trafficking syndicate in Lagos, seizing suspected illicit drugs estimated at ₦7.8 billion and arresting several suspects, including the alleged kingpin, Eke Henry Ifeanyi.