A FEW days ago, President Muhammadu Buhari forwarded names of 43 ministerial nominees to the Senate for confirmation. Among the 43 nominees are 12 persons who were ministers in the president’s first term in office, while the remaining 31 nominees, when cleared by the upper legislative house, would become ministers for the first time under the current political dispensation. For many years, what has been the usual practice in the country is for the president to forward a list of ministerial nominees to the Senate for screening without their corresponding portfolios.

TERRORISM in Africa and most especially in Nigeria has taken a new terrifying dimension. The use of children in suicide bombing by the Boko Haram and Islamic State of West Africa Province, ISWAP, terrorist groups in recent time is worrisome. 

TRANSNATIONAL Corporation of Nigeria, Transcorp Plc, has assured investors and other stakeholders of improved performance in the third quarter, Q3’19, despite the difficult operating environment.

Africoat, a Nigerian-registered pipe-coating company with United States citizen ownership, investment and management, is a bright hope for foreign investment in Nigeria.

At an average age of 47, the cabinet Boris Johnson assembled, 3 hours after becoming Britain’s Prime Minister, is the United Kingdom’s YOUNGEST ever cabinet.