In a bid to ease the financial burden of preparing children for the new academic session, Alert Microfinance Bank, a member of Alert Group, has supported 100 pupils across two schools in Lagos State with essential educational materials. The initiative, implemented under the bank’s Back-to-School Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme, benefited 50 pupils each from […]

The completed project has now transformed a once-notorious corridor, where criminal activities reportedly flourished amid bad roads and overgrown vegetation, into a safer and more accessible route.

By Emma Nnadozie The Police Special Fraud Unit, SFU, Ikoyi, Lagos, has commenced investigations into alleged massive fraud running into billions of dollars in Nigeria’s oil and gas sector.The unit reportedly began probing the alleged fraud following complaints from concerned Nigerians and intelligence networks said to have uncovered what could be one of the biggest […]

By Adeyemi Samuels In the South-Western part of Nigeria, among the Yorubas, there lives a bird known as Aparo. It is a creature full of lessons and wisdom; the same bird the English refer to as partridge, quail, or bush fowl. Proverbs tied to the Aparo abound, all circling the subject of foresight, provision, and […]

By Damilola Samuel Nigeria’s shortage of eye-care specialists could worsen as more ophthalmologists leave the country, with the Ophthalmological Society of Nigeria (OSN) estimating that the migration of a single specialist could cost the economy about $150,000 annually. The President of OSN, Dr Gloria Patrick-Ferife, raised the concern in a communiqué issued at the end […]

A country of Nigeria’s size cannot achieve broad-based prosperity simply by facilitating the movement of money, information, people and transactions. At some point, it must become better at producing things.

By Adesina Wahab An activist, who is also the Publisher of The Common Good Letter, Rev. David Ugolor, has petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, the Code of Conduct Bureau, the Bureau of Public Procurement, BPP and the Attorney-General of the Federation and […]

As Nigeria’s housing deficit continues to dominate policy conversation, two voices from within the Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria (REDAN) — one national, one at the state level — offer perspectives on where the market’s biggest opportunities and obstacles lie, drawn from separate recent engagements with the press. The Opportunity: Affordable Housing at Scale […]

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Christ for All Nations (CFAN) Gospel Crusade have unveiled plans for a four-day spiritual and economic outreach in Calabar, describing it as an intervention that will strengthen churches, promote unity and boost the local economy.