By Cynthia Alo The Malaysian Palm Oil Council, MPOC, has pledged to support Nigeria with technical expertise, research collaboration and investment opportunities to help close the country’s estimated one million metric-tonnes palm oil supply gap. The council also announced the establishment of a representative office in Lagos as part of efforts to deepen engagement with stakeholders across […]

The Allied Peoples Movement (APM) senatorial candidate for Oyo Central, Ambassador Olufemi Ajadi Oguntoyinbo, has urged Nigerian couples to build their marriages on love, mutual respect, patience and the fear of God, describing the family as the bedrock of every peaceful and prosperous society. Ajadi made the call on Saturday while speaking with journalists after […]

By Ibrahim Hassan-Wuyo The Delta State governorship candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Dr. Emmanuel Usiwoghene Unuafe, has criticised what he described as Nigeria’s growing dependence on cash handouts and symbolic empowerment programmes, warning that sustainable economic development can only be achieved through production, industrialisation and job creation. In a policy reflection titled “Empowerment […]

By Adeola Badru The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has entered into a strategic partnership with the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs to strengthen support systems for Nigerian students in the diaspora, in a move expected to improve consular services, student welfare and government engagement with Nigerians studying abroad. The partnership was reached during […]

By Moshood Oshunfurewa The 10th Senate under President Godswill Akpabio presents a compelling case study of democratic corrosion masked as efficiency. In just two years, this chamber has introduced 844 bills, a figure trumpeted as unprecedented, yet these raw numbers obscure a deeper institutional crisis. The Senate has become the executive’s most reliable political vassal, a […]