Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, yesterday, inaugurated a five-man Tribunal of Enquiry to investigate the civil unrest in Ibeju-Lekki area of the state on October 12, which led to the gruesome murder of the […]
A professor of psychiatry, Joseph Adeyemi, has said that no fewer than 800,000 people commit suicide yearly due to depression, yet policies on mental challenges remain archaic. Professor Adeyemi, who spoke in Lagos at the presentation […]
The president of African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr Akinwumi Adesina, has emphasised the importance of agriculture and food security to the growth and development of Africa. Speaking at a high level conference on agricultural transformation […]
The Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, yesterday constituted 96 Standing Committees to oversight various ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) of government. Dogara, who announced the composition of the committees and their chairmen at plenary, […]
About 300 students of the Federal Government Girls’ College in Efon Alaaye, Ekiti State, have been infected with an outbreak of a disease suspected to be cholera. Although some of the students affected were treated […]
AKURE—The former Secretary to the Government of the Federation and former Minister of Finance, Chief Olu Falae, on Wednesday in Akure, the Ondo State capital, said he served as a minister without collecting any salary. […]
Nigeria has hired about 250 mercenaries from South Africa to help in its war against Boko Haram insurgents, a Turkish news agency has reported, quoting military sources. President Muhammadu Buhari recently gave a December deadline […]
In some unwitting way, all Nigerians are complicit in the still birthing of good governance and socio-economic development of our country. With about 35 million adult Nigerians said to be illiterate, a quantum of our […]
Every government in a federation, it must be emphasized, is equal in status to and independent in its sphere of its activities from the other governments in the federation including the federal government. Each government […]
VICE President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, recently disclosed the intention of the Federal Government to set up a communication centre to provide adequate information to counter the violent propaganda of Boko Haram Islamist insurgents. The nation’s […]
Some weeks ago it was reported that a committee of civil servants was set up by President Muhammadu Buhari to look into the mode of setting up a new airline. One of the ostensible reasons […]
As in 1985-86, Nigeria is again at loggerheads with the international financial institutions. It is under strong and persistent pressure from the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to devalue its national […]
WERE the law of comparative advantage to be fully operational, Nigeria would have benefited tremendously from an arrangement where its criminal cases would have been firmed out to Britain and America. There could be no […]
CHIEF Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, the self-styled Ijaw leader is one of those I describe as “Nigeria’s surviving problematic elders”. Others in his group include Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Professor Ango Abdullahi and the rest. These elders […]
Those familiar with the political chemistry of President Muhammadu Buhari agree that a driving force has been missing in his current political structure. President Buhari is known for identifying and domiciling power in somebody while […]
Ibadan—The Ministry of Works has said that the contractor handling Section II of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway reconstruction and expansion project, Reynolds Construction Company, RCC, was facing challenges of finance, adverse weather and impatience of motorists. […]
Confusion has trailed the judgement of the Akwa Ibom State Governorship Election Tribunal on Wednesday, following the nullification of election in 18 local government areas of the state without unseating the governor. The tribunal had […]
The umbrella body for employers in the country, Nigeria Employers Consultative Association, NECA, yesterday in Lagos, warned that the newly introduced Treasury Single Account, TSA, policy by the Federal Government would cripple the operations of self-funding […]
MAKURDI—A member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Mark Gbilah, has stated that the appointment of 36 ministers by an administration in one fell swoop is too much for a government that needs to cut costs. […]
ABUJA — AHEAD of today’s screening of former Governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi; Senate Majority Leader, Senator Ali Ndume, yesterday, lampooned senators elected on the platform of his former party, the Peoples Democratic […]
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