SINCE the days of late Maryam Babangida and her epochal pet project of ‘better life for rural women‘, a First Lady at the national or state level has taken upon herself to float one pet programme or the other for the advancement of humanity. 

We have been very proud of Nigerian talents in the area of writing. The NLNG Award has certainly been like sunshine for writers both within and outside of Nigeria who are Nigerians. It has provided hope and something to strive for.

The nation’s Liquefied Petroleum Gas, LPG market has been threatened by many problems, including inadequate funding and policy issues. But in this interview with Udeme Akpan, Mr. Nuhu Yakubu, the President of the Nigeria Liquefied Petroleum Gas Association (NLPGA), who comments on a wide range of issues, said the future of the sector is not bleak.

ANAP Jets aspires to provide the most appropriate financial arrangement that suits each client.

Unfortunately for us in Nigeria, merchant banking has not been fully tapped into. The most common is retail banking where every person is establishing branches and acquiring a lot of retail customers. So, we have decided that we are going to do merchant banking and do it the way it ought to be. Four merchant banks plus Nova, that is five, we believe is still very little for Nigeria.

I enjoyed being a mortuary attendant. I was using the salary to pay my house rent, tuition fees among other bills. America is not like Nigeria where you meet people for help. Mortuary is an interesting place because it is abode of the dead

 “When you tell people that you are a model, they view you as a prostitute. It should not be that way. There are models that do modelling for a living in South Africa and actually live and pay their rents through modelling full-time. They respect models there compared to Nigeria,” she said.

By Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, South –South AN Ijaw opinion leader and legal luminary, Dr. Clarkson Aribogha, has said that it is politically injurious to the Southern region for former President Olusegun Obasanjo to suggest that President Muhammadu Buhari should forget the 2019 Presidential Election, as heeding the call will definitely pave way for the […]

Sexy and daring screen diva, Ella Mensah remains one of the few Ghanaian actresses who has crossed over to Nollywood successfully. In this interview, the beautiful mother of one who never stops dishing out alluring pictures of herself on the internet shares her plans for the year, as well as how acting cost her two relationships

Dame Judith Obiajulu Amaechi having successfully made a remarkable progress  in her early education, was inspired by this effort to aspire for higher education. She obtained a degree of bachelor of technology in Urban and Regional Planning from the nation’s Premier Science and Technology Institute, The Rivers State University of Science and Technology (RSUST).

The Public Relations Officer of the Turkish Nizamiye Hospital Mr. Mohammed Abubakar has said that the hospital which was commissioned by former President Goodluck Jonathan can compete with any hospital in Eaurope and America.

Nigeria is blessed with natural resources distributed all over different geographical regions however, it is its citizens, Nigerians, that harness the economic potential from these resources thereby making human capital the true driving force of the economy. This point in itself places emphasis on the importance of optimizing population health to preserve Nigeria’s human capital and ensure that Nigeria as a nation continues to remain at the fore front of Africa’s economy. 

Like the headline suggests, this is not a rag to riches tale, neither is it one naturally disadvantaged but made significant by personal struggles. It is simply about character and focus. Chief Executive Officer of Urban Spaces Innovation, Felix Morka and ex-Chairman of the United Nations Expert Committee on Development-based Displacements discusses how the character learnt through the sterling examples of family bonds, especially his late father’s devo

With an estimated 186 trillion standard cubic feet (SCF) of natural gas reserves, Nigeria is by far the biggest reserve holder on the continent

We are not ignorant that the SGF, the CoS, the DG NIA, the CNS, the CAS, the IGP and the bosses of the INEC, the EFCC, the Customs, the NDLEA, and so on are the movers and shakers of power in this dispensation. The only South-West slot of DG National Intelligence Agency was recently replaced by another PMB’s ethnic man