Since the late Professor Dora Akunyili left the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, in December 2008, the Agency has hardly made front page news except for the wrong reasons, until now. The incumbent Director General, Mojisola Adeyeye, a professor of Pharmaceutics, Manufacturing Science and Drug Product Evaluation, has brought the […]

The recently resolved industrial action embarked upon by the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja chapter of the Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT, over delayed payment of the National Minimum Wage, brings back the issue of unconscionable neglect of social sector workers by typical Nigerian politicians. After embarking on a prolonged strike, the teachers’ union called […]

Muhammadu Buhari, retired Major General, former military Head of State and two-time elected President of Nigeria, bowed into the cold hands of death on Sunday, July 13, 2025 at an upscale London clinic at 82. His passing brought to an end a prolonged history of illness and hospitalisation which pervaded his eight-year tenure between 2015 […]

Socio-political activist, Omoyele Sowore, last week threatened to lead retired and serving personnel of the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, nationwide over poor welfare. This comes as the National Association of Retired Police Officers of Nigeria, NARPON, bemoans the delayed payment of N758 billion outstanding pension liabilities from their Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, to its members. […]

July 1, 2025, went down in history as a day yet another Nigerian super achiever, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi (MFR), the Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Customs Service, CG of NCS, was handed the mantle to lead a major global platform for trade administration and control, the World Customs Organisation, WCO. Adewale’s well-deserved appointment, coupled with a […]