By Babatope Babalobi About 25m graduates are unemployed in Nigeria, though President Muhammadu Buhari estimated it at over 20m earlier this year. This calls for urgent national planning, though the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has not helped matters by masking its data in technical terms and not updating its record timely, making it difficult […]

LAST Thursday and Friday the people of Edo State experienced yet another dimension of brutality as the government evolved crude resistance to the return of Pastor Osagie Ize Iyamu to the APC. The government issued all forms of threats to the citizenry who would dare attend the rally put together by Pastor Osagie Ize Iyamu’s supporters to honour his movement to the APC. The government closed all private schools in the state. Citizens were threatened with losing their Certificate of Occupancy if they allowed any rally in their premises.

I boarded a commercial airliner heading to Lagos from Abuja. I was already seated, and strapping my seat belt, when a young man approached me. He must have been in his late 20s, or at most, early 30s. I shook hands, greeted him warmly, and he slipped something in my palm. He went back to his seat.

By Tim Oghenevwogagan The Managing Director of the Lagos Deep Offshore Logistic Base (LADOL), Dr. Amy Jadesimi, recently shocked her international audience in Madrid, Spain, when she claimed that “Eighty per cent of the 680 million new jobs the world needs will be created by Small and Medium Enterprises (SME’s) and larger indigenous companies such […]

Chances are that people would misunderstand and wrongly label Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu’s defection to the All Progressives Congress, APC.