Sim-swap fraud now in vogue
By Owolola Adebola We are in a period when a smartphone functions as a digital wallet, identity card, and security key all at once. One of the oldest tricks in the cybercrime playbook has returned with a vengeance. SIM-swap fraud is at it. It is also known as SIM swapping, SIM hijacking, or phone-number takeover. […]
Has our celebration of Christmas lost its true essence?
By CHIEDU UCHE OKOYE In Nigeria, the onset of harmattan, a period of cold weather, precedes Christmas. It is that period of the year when we muffle ourselves in layers of clothes to protect ourselves from the biting cold at night. And when we hang our clothes on the line, they will dry quickly. Christmas announces its […]
Leemon Ikpea of Lee Engineering
By Sunny Ikhioya Chief Leemon Ikpea and his Lee Engineering Group are already well-known in the Nigerian business circle, especially in the oil and gas sector. Most are familiar with his thatch house to Castle story, but what many do not know, are the inate qualities that have enabled him to survive the shark infested […]
That the Sun may shine Again
By Sola Ebiseni It’s no gainsaying that for the greater part of the second term of Rotimi Akeredolu which began on 21st February 2021, as Governor of Ondo State, things have not been at ease. The centre has not held for the state having been dogged by the state of health of the governor and the […]
The Senate’s ‘Most Dependable, Distinctive’ Presiding Officer
BY YUSUPH OLANIYONU The phrase with the inverted comma in the headline was borrowed from the statement issued by former US President, George W. Bush, in his statement on the death of former US Secretary of State and National Security Adviser, Prof. Henry Kissinger, at the age of 100 late last month. The phrase aptly describes the […]
Christmas: Sunken in secular humanism and wickedness
By Bobson Gbinije “Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor Hell a fury like a woman scorned”. (The Morning Bride — William Congreve) Jesus Christ is the authentic Messiah and unblemished signet on the escutcheon of all Christians. He is the generalissimo of the cosmogony and the dymistifier of the tetragramaton. Although, the exact […]
