SHE needs little or no introduction as a foremost entrepreneur, philanthropist and business person. Identified mainly as the supremo of Moni Pulo Oil Producing Company Limited where she functioned as Executive Vice-Chairman until the transition of her husband, the late High Chief O.B. Lulu-Briggs, Seinye is an accomplished businesswoman who started her career in the Computer Department of the Central Bank of Nigeria before joining the private sector where her business acumen and strength to navigate the murky waters of high finance and business became sharpened.

AS the world of hospitality reeled from the global coronavirus pandemic, it didn’t seem like the most auspicious time to launch one of the country’s few five-star hotels.

MALLAM Mele Kyari mounted the saddle as the Group Managing Director, GMD, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, with a very rich oil and gas industry background spanning over 27 years at a time the corporation and industry were experiencing very difficult times.

By Peter Duru – Makurdi Benue State is facing an uphill task of catering for the officially recognized 1.597million Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, located in several camps and host communities spread across the state. Since the 2018 New Year day massacre by armed herdsmen in Logo and Guma Local Government Areas of the state that […]

By Jimitota Onoyume The controversy generated by former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s remark that oil in the Niger Delta belongs to Nigeria and not the region seems unending as Niger Delta activists said the ex-President’s children and kinsmen should call him to order. They also urged Obasanjo to identify the particular treaty that gave ownership of […]

By Peter Duru – Makurdi This is certainly not the best of times for the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, in Benue state given the spate of high-profile defections that have hit the party in the last few weeks. Privileged information revealed that the party is neck deep in a crisis which may not be […]

STAKEHOLDERS of the Niger Delta are enthusiastically awaiting the end of this month (June) or latest July 5, which the Minister of Niger-Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, under pressure, promised ethnic nationalities of the region and ex-militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, that the long-expected Board of the Niger-Delta Development Commission, NDDC,

Properly managed livestock – key to climate change, desertification – Allan Savory, Zimbabwean ecologist and land management expert Says: Farmers/herders need one another Farmers/pastoralists conflicts in Nigeria will not end unless•• CR government pioneers unique solution By Ebele Orakpo APART from unrelenting Boko Haram terrorists’ attacks, Nigeria and Nigerians have in recent years continued to […]

By Chidi Nkwopara – Owerri Palpable fear and confusion have enveloped residents of Imo State, following the unabating reign of terror visited on them by yet to be identified gunmen. Unknown gunmen, Monday night, attacked the Okigwe South Area Command Headquarters, Ehime Mbano, killing five policemen during the operation, while one police officer, at the […]

By Boluwaji Obahopo, Lokoja Mariam Audu deals in cashew nut in Iyale, Dekina council area of Kogi State. Every year, she looks up to the month of February with hopes of better deals to no avail. The cashew nut business had helped her to support her family. Presently, Mariam is pregnant and cannot, for now, […]

By Boluwaji Obahopo, Lokoja A shortage of teachers harms students, teachers and the public education system as a whole. It hampers students’ ability to learn, reduces teachers’ productivity, and consumes economic resources that could be better deployed elsewhere. The state of education in Kogi State at present is in a state of coma. One of […]

  By Chinonso Alozie – Owerri Confusion has trailed the story of a caretaker of Eziwanne lodge, Daniel Okufuwa, in Federal Polytechnic, Nekede in Owerri, Imo State, who allegedly beat his tenant into a coma and later died in the hospital, a first-year student of building technology, Anthony Chinweotito Emmanuel, as the relatives to Okufuwa, […]

THE year 2020 is gone, unsung! The year 2021 is here. But what will it bring? I mean, what will the new year mean for Nigeria? For the entire world, we already know, sadly, that COVID-19 is mutating and still ravaging.

By Hakeem Baba-Ahmed ECONOMY: The economy, already in deep depression, will perform very poorly. Public spending will reduce owing to restrictions in revenue bases, reductions in foreign direct investment and poor management. Cost of living will rise along with unemployment. Informal sector of the economy will suffer from effects of the restrictions imposed by the […]

By Obadiah Mailafia PREDICTIONS are a rather perilous enterprise. They are predicated on some important assumptions; some of them realistic and a good number rather unreliable. They also depend on several critical variables, some of them predictable while others are not quite. In making those forecasts as I do today, I am assuming that there […]