MOST Nigerians say the only way out of this recession is to increase our non-oil exports. The Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) headed by Mr. Segun Awolowo, recently unfolded a Zero Oil Plan which it claimed has the potential of increasing non-oil export earnings to $30 billion over the next five years, adding that eleven strategic products for the export drive had been identified.

Primary schools throughout Nigeria resumed for the first term of the current school year shortly after the Sallah holidays in September 2016, with many Nigerians eager to see the commencement of school feeding involving 5.5 million pupils nationwide.

THOUGH the outcome and impact of production freeze talks by members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) are yet to resonate fully we are already seeing positive signs indicating that, probably, the worst days of oil price-related economic crises are ending.

It came like a bolt from the blue on Thursday, 13th October 2016, when the news of the return of 21 of the 219 female students of Government Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State, who had been captives of their Boko Haram Islamist terror group abductors since April 14, 2014, unfolded.

THE long-awaited report of the Hon. Nicholas Ossai-led House of Representatives Committee on Ethics and Privileges probing the alleged sexual misconduct of three members of the House while on an official assignment to Cleveland, Ohio in the United States of America in April this year, has come out with a verdict of not guilty.