Managing Director for Programme Development and Technical Cooperation Division of the United Nation International Development Organization (UNIDO), Philippe Scholtes has announced a $2.6 million support fund for rural electricity programme in Nigeria.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is due to arrive in Italy for the first leg of a European trip during which he is expected to sign major business deals.
A suspected drug addict arrested by the Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Command has disclosed that he made over N300, 000 monthly from begging in Ikeja. Kehinde Olatubosun, 56, from Ibadan, Oyo State, […]
In a bid to generate revenue for deposit money banks, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has introduced a maintenance fee on current account transactions. This was revealed in a circular signed by Kevin Amugo, […]
Before Nigeria became independent, the British colonial masters organised a series of conferences in Ibadan and London to enable the elites of the various regions and socio-cultural divides to negotiate and agree on the terms […]
I take the title of this essay from a passage in one of 20th century’s most controversial, if seminal, novels. Chinua Achebe called the author of Heart of Darkness “a thorough-going racist.” He might be […]
The Naira exchange rate has suffered severe battering in recent times and fallen from about N160 to the present N197=$; indeed, since our national experience defines a close correlation between deepening poverty and weakening Naira […]
I truly do not like it when I have to write about an issue in our country and I have this déjà vu feeling that I already wrote about it in the past. That has […]
Nigeria increased this year’s budget deficit forecast by 36 percent after oil prices fell below the $38 per barrel benchmark set by Africa’s top producer. The gap will increase to 3 trillion naira ($15.1 billion), or […]
The Federal Government said it had commenced the review of laws guiding the privatisation and concession of public assets in the country. The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, stated this in […]
The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has called on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to lift the foreign exchange restrictions it placed on 41 items, saying the measure was no longer necessary, […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has filed fresh 22 charges against an ex-Niger Delta militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, popularly known as Tompolo, and 12 others. The charges, which were filed on Friday at a […]
ABUJA — The Federal Government, weekend, hiked the price of Household Kerosene (HHK) to N83 per litre from N50 per litre, thereby, officially ending subsidy on the product. The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA , […]
John Holt Nigeria Plc posted an operating profit of N1.63 billion for the year ended September 30 2015, an 18.50 percent reduction from N2 billion the previous year. The company with interest in businesses ranging from […]
LAGOS—Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), has petitioned the International Criminal Court, ICC, requesting it to investigate allegations of crimes against humanity committed by some Nigerians over alleged diversion of $8 billion earmarked to procure military […]
Former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, will on Wednesday, hold a world press conference in Geneva, Switzerland. According to a statement by Guy Mettan, Executive Director, the Geneva Press Club, Jonathan will address two most crucial topics […]
ABUJA- FORMER Federal Commissioner for Information for Information and Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene in the alleged castigation and harassment of the people of the Niger Delta and […]
A former presidential candidate of the defunct All Peoples Party (APP) and Alliance for Democracy (AD), and Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Chief Olu Falae, has been in the news in the last […]
There is something baffling about the constant need by the people who do these things to measure human happiness. For example, in a 2010 Gallup Poll, Nigerians were described as the happiest people on earth, […]
Some mothers do have them indeed. But just as it is in the human family, so it is in the comity of nations. There are nations and there are nations. Just as Leo Tolstoy, the […]
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