By Babajide Komolafe The National Sugar Development Council (NSDC) and the Nigerian Export-Import Bank (NEXIM Bank) have commenced a strategic partnership to mobilise long-term financing for the large-scale transformation of Nigeria’s sugar industry. The collaboration, agreed at a meeting in Abuja, will adopt the Engineering, Procurement, Construction plus Financing (EPC+F) model to fund viable sugar projects. […]

By EBUKA UKOH  Valentine’s Day arrives each year, wrapped in red. Roses. Chocolates. Candlelit dinners. Carefully curated photos. Public displays of affection. The scripts are familiar. This year, however, many Nigerians are too tired for scripts.  By Valentine’s Day, many are already emotionally exhausted from simply trying to survive January. You see it in the faces […]

By Esther Onyegbula Amid rising insecurity and ethnic tension across the country, the National Alliance for Peace, NAP, has announced plans to inaugurate a Lagos Peace Committee in March as part of efforts to restore peace and strengthen collaboration between communities and security agencies in the state. President of NAP, Nze Dr. Okolie Amaechi Sadiq, […]

IGP Kayode Egbetokun, has declared Nigeria’s banking industry a strategic national asset, ordering an immediate intelligence-led crackdown on cybercriminal networks

Barrister Kennedy Kanma, the subject of this opinion article, a man I first encountered in 1981 as a freshman at St. Pius Xth Grammar School