Sterling Bank puts ₦1.6bn in the hands of everyday Nigerians

By Peter Egwuatu …Nigerians Pocket over ₦1.6 Billion as Sterling Bank Marks One Year of Zero Transfer Fees Lagos, Nigeria: One year after making a decisive break from industry norms, Sterling Bank is marking the anniversary of its Zero Transfer Fees policy, an initiative that has returned over ₦1.6 billion directly to customers, fundamentally reshaping […]
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Oyetola pushes for regional o-operation, investment drive at Liberia fisheries summit

By Providence Ayanfeoluwa The Minister of Marine and Blue Economy and Chairman of the Fisheries Committee for the West Central Gulf of Guinea, Dr. Adegboyega Oyetola, has called for stronger regional co-operation and increased investment in the fisheries sector across West and Central Africa. He made the call in Monrovia, Liberia where he spoke at […]

China’s top virologist storms NIMR, pushes Nigeria into global vaccine race

By Chioma Obinna Nigeria’s quest for stronger disease control and vaccine independence received a major boost as a high-powered Chinese scientific delegation led by renowned virologist and former Director-General of China CDC, Prof. George Gao, visited the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, NIMR, in Lagos. The visit, which brought together leading experts from the Chinese […]

Behold, our capitalists

By SUNNY IKHIOYA We have started another cycle. A war in far away land is beginning to have a negative impact on our economy. Fuel prices have spiked, and the resultant effect is inflation. The groaning of hardship that subsided not long ago has suddenly resumed, and if care is not taken, it will soon spin […]

Preparing for effective state policing

The recent submission of a 75-page framework for state policing by the Inspector-General of Police, Tunji Disu, to the Deputy President of the Senate, Jibrin Barau, marks a watershed moment in Nigeria’s constitutional and security evolution. It demonstrates President Bola Tinubu’s determination to take state police beyond mere rhetoric. For decades, the debate over Nigeria’s […]

Jedy-Agba reflects on leadership, discipline, life lessons in memoir ‘Grace Unspeakable’

A former Minister of State for Power, Goody Jedy-Agba, has offered a deeply personal reflection on leadership, discipline and resilience in his newly released memoir, Grace Unspeakable, using his life story to interrogate Nigeria’s moral and governance challenges. Speaking on Tuesday in Abuja during an exclusive signing of the book, Jedy-Agba framed his experiences in […]

TIRMS, taking telecom and regulation a notch higher, by Okoh Aihe

TIRMS, which is an acronym for Telecoms Identity Risk Management System, has hardly enjoyed any special attention in the daily discourse of telecom regulation. Not even a sustained mention until the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, introduced it into the telecom lexicon last week.  Much unlike other regulatory measures – like a huge telecom license fee, a […]

Women voters intensify pressure on NASS over special seats bill

By Esther Onyegbula THE League of Women Voters of Nigeria, NILOWV, Lagos Chapter, Kosofe Constituency, has intensified its advocacy for the passage of the Special Seats for Women Bill, calling for urgent legislative action to address gender imbalance in Nigeria’s political space. The group, during a peaceful demonstration in Kosofe Constituency, said the proposed bill […]

Politics, terror and insecurity in the Middle Belt, by Rotimi Fasan

It has frequently happened across different parts of the North that new reports of similar incidents are simply being treated as pieces of information to be noted for whatever it is worth by whoever finds it useful while life goes on in the rest of the country. But cases of terrorists’ attacks are not mere incidents […]

Sowore’s rough tackle on Gov. Otti, by Ochereome Nnanna

Some weeks ago, activist Omoyele Sowore, joined a group of protesters in Aba, the commercial heart of Abia State, to call for the release of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. His presence and those of other non-Igbo elements were highly appreciated. But he threw that visit into a cloud with the tag […]

Dr Ado Bayero: His illustrious life and times (I), by Usman Sarki

“A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone”—   Paul Valéry To do justice to the life and times of so illustrious a personality as the late Alhaji Ado Bayero, CFR, Emir of Kano, would require the pen and erudition of historians of the calibre of Ibn Khaldun, Edward Gibbon […]

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