ABUJA—THE 36 state governors have said that they can no longer pay the N18,000 minimum wage that was signed into law in March 2011 by former President Goodluck Jonathan, owing to the poor state of […]
ON the eve of the 2011 presidential election, I received a text message from Raymond Dokpesi, urging me to vote for Goodluck Jonathan the following day. He adduced a host of reasons for endorsement of […]
There may be many reasons to criticise President Muhammadu Buhari’s choice of ministers and even the long wait that heralded their emergence, but one thing no one can take away from that ministerial list is […]
LET me say it, once again: I do not support the hysteria for Biafra. I am not sure Nnamdi Kanu fully understands the subject well enough to give us a picture of what to expect […]
It appears the Buhari APC federal government intends to do something, no matter how little, to provide some financial relief for some 25 million people considered to be the poorest of the poor in our […]
First, we must observe that Lagos is a mega city with the associated mega-city problems similar to those you find in New York, Los Angeles, Cairo, Sao Paulo or Mumbai. It attracts all manners of […]
WHEN an organisation no longer knows what to do, it starts grappling with everything. That is when the loss of one genuine purpose leads to the pursuit of a dozen pseudo purposes. That is also […]
Friday, November 13, 2015: French Prime Minister Francois Hollande and perhaps some friends, family members and aides are seated enjoying a game of football between Germany and France, in a stadium in Paris. First explosion went […]
Young loud phone talkers aren’t the only irritants today, even older people have joined the stream of youths using their phones at public functions, taking selfies, browsing or texting, sometimes laugh loud when they read […]
Had ISIS not shocked the world by sponsoring a spree of deadly attacks at six locations in Paris last Friday, killing at least 128 people, the Nigerian social media space would have been dominated—no question—by […]
PERHAPS, when some people complain about the difficulties of doing business in Nigeria, they only mean private enterprises. They may mean starting manufacturing businesses with the attendant challenges of surmounting the daunting challenges of poor […]
Sometime in 2006, (I cannot recollect the exact date or month), some selected editors were invited to a suite in Eko Holiday Inn to have a parley with the then Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola […]
The Kano State Commissioner of Police, Muhammad Katsina, has confirmed the death of 15 persons in the bomb blasts that rocked the GSM Market in the city on Wednesday. He also said about 53 persons […]
Former National Security Adviser (NSA) Sambo Dasuki vowed yesterday to defend his integrity, saying he is ready for trial over the N644billion arms deals probe panel says are fraudulent. He said he acted in the […]
ABUJA — Nigeria’s Alhaji Aliko Dangote lost N1 trillion ($5 billion) in one year as a result of drop in prices of shares at the stock market in Dangote cement even as he retains his […]
LAGOS — The Board of Ecobank Nigeria Limited said, yesterday, that the Managing Director of the bank, Mr. Jibril Aku, will step down on December 31, 2015. A statement from the bank said by the […]
The Lagos State Government has defended the N225bn it raised through the bond market, saying it is to meet the infrastructural needs of the state.The Commissioner for Finance, Dr. Mustapha Akinkunmi, made the statement on […]
ABUJA—President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, approved the sack of Justice Lambo Akanbi of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, after the National Judicial Council, NJC, found him guilty of judicial misconduct. The […]
The Minister of Budget and Planning, Senator Udoma Udo-Udoma said yesterday that the Federal Government’s plan for zero-based budgeting from next year would block all financial leakages and bring accountability into government spending. Udo-Udoma said […]
The Federal Government is to pay N92.4million severance package to the 16 retired Permanent Secretaries following their disengagement from the civil service. A 12-month breakdown of the above shows that each of the Permanent Secretaries will […]
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