Niger State is home of Tourism. Zungeru town is where a Briton, Lord Luggard, as well as the first President of the country, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe settled, and married. It was the same town where the amalgamation of the country took place and the name Nigeria chosen. Besides, Lord Luggard, the first indigenous President of the country, Dr. Azikiwe, late Biafra leader, Odumegwu Ojukwu and some other prominent Nigerians were born there.

ONE of the highlights of the just concluded annual IMF/World Bank meeting in Washington was a presentation by the Secretary General, Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, Alhaji Mohammed Sanusi Barkindo, at the G-24 Ministerial Meeting that took place on the sidelines of the meeting. Barkindo thereafter held an interactive session with the media where he gave insights into efforts to forestall further slide in crude oil price as well as how the slide in prices is affecting OPEC members.

Adedoyin started as a student of mathematics at the then University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, decades ago, when one of his lecturers, because of his outstanding performance in the subject, assigned him to teach his children at home.

We made appreciable progress in the transportation sector. Although the British left us with a functional rail system, our leaders however extended the rail to boost the transport system in Nigeria. On water transportation they decided to dredge the river Niger to facilitate water transportation to the north for increased commercial activities. By independence, the road from Kano to Lagos was not tarred like several other major roads we have today, but the story is different today.

If you break up Nigeria, thinking that the small, small principalities will go away, it’s a joke

We have observed that the results that were issued by the presiding officers from the various units across the state were not the same as those announced at the collation centre

asil Ogbuanu is the President of Nigerian Association of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Marketers, NALPGM, and also the Managing Director of Second Coming Gas Limited, a liquedfied petroleum gas LPG, company with offices in Lagos and diffrent part of Nigeria. In this interview with Sebastine Obasi he talks about the challenges in the gas subsecor and the need d=for governmnet not to sell its shares in the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas NNLG.

Nigeria as a nation is highly stressed and Nigerians as a people are under stress and that stress can only be cured through attending to the causes of the stress. President Muhammadu Buhari is the “stubborn” man who is not swallowed by problems and I can say that he is the man at the moment who can address that stress. When you look at w3hat is happening in Nigeria economically, even in the area of security and politically too, they are signs of the time. In other words, they are worldwide. And the solution needs a wide approach, not in terms of our training to take and take and take but the need to establish value to enable us give and give and give.

APOSTLE (Dr.) Hayford Ikponmwonsa Alile, pioneer Director General/Chief Executive Officer, Nigeria Stock Exchange, NSE, served on the Board of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, for six years after his 24-year-stint at the NSE. In this interview, the spiritual leader of St. Joseph’s Chosen Church of God, SJCCG, throws his weight behind the sale of the nation’s assets to reverse economic recession.

Civil war hero and second republic politician, Chief Guy Ikokwu, in this piece to mark Nigeria’s 56th independence anniversary, asks President Muhammadu Buhari to resist the temptation to reject the calls, especially from eminent people, to initiate immediate moves to restructure the nation, saying that is the only way to prosperity. In the last few […]