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Agriculture in Nigeria has an interesting history of ups and downs. Long before the discovery of oil and gas in commercial quantity, from the precolonial and colonial days to the First Republic, agriculture was the […]

Workers erected barricades around a Manhattan courthouse on Monday as New York City braced for a possible indictment of Donald Trump over an alleged hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels during his 2016 campaign. […]

The Lagos State Government, in preparation for the 2023/24 academic calendar, has assured stakeholders of prioritising harmonised and standardised instructional days of learning for all schools in order to ensure children have the minimum standard […]

Following the dissatisfaction of some electorate in the management of the governorship and state assembly elections, protests rocked some states, yesterday, against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Angry voters objected to the delay tactics […]

Nigeria is now 95th happiest nation in the world and sixth in Africa, with 4.981 points, according to the latest edition of the World Happiness Report, released yesterday. Mauritius tops African countries in the yearly […]

Wyoming has become the first state in the United States of America (U.S.A) to ban the use of abortion pills, the latest salvo in a campaign by conservative-led states to roll back access to abortion. […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) must use the Saturday Governorship and State Assembly elections to redeem its image by conducting credible elections across the country, Transition Monitoring Group, TMG, has said. The organisation also […]

The West Africa Elders Forum (WAEF) has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), security operatives, and other stakeholders to act in accordance with the laws of the land in the Saturday elections. WAEF made […]

Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has described the last round of general elections as an exhibition of motion without movement in the nation’s political trajectory, being the worst in its history. […]

Like it was during the first round of elections three weeks ago, there will be a lockdown on movement tomorrow across the country, for the governorship and state Houses of Assembly election. Yesterday, the Inspector-General […]

The silence of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on the trillions of naira it mopped from the financial system continues to cast doubt on the possibility of achieving sufficient naira circulation in the near […]

Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has debunked allegations that its governor, Godwin Emefiele, was plotting against the president-elect, Bola Tinubu. According to a report (not in The Guardian) Emefiele resolved to work against Tinubu, because […]

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN on Monday evening finally heeded calls to direct commercial banks to start dispensing and receiving old naira notes as legal tender across the country in line with recent Supreme […]

The US Air Force on Friday unveiled a new color scheme for Air Force One, discarding the palette chosen by Donald Trump for the presidential aircraft. President Joe Biden is sticking with a classic blue-and-white […]

ecently, on a YouTube channel, I said something terrible, but I don’t know what it was. The main subject of discussion—my reporting on the power of online gurus—was not intrinsically offensive. It might have been […]

United States Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has been hospitalized after tripping at a Washington D.C. hotel on Wednesday night. McConnell, 81, was having dinner at the hotel when he took a tumble, his spokesperson […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says the transfer of the former Director of ICT has nothing to do with glitches experienced with the uploading of the Feb. 25 national election results. The Chief Press […]

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has reacted to Thursday’s fatal crash between BRT and train in Ikeja area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria. Two people were confirmed dead and many injured when a BRT crashed with […]

A train has collided with a Lagos State Government staff bus in the Shogunle area of Oshodi in Lagos. The incident took place on Thursday morning. Eyewitness said the bus was attempting to cross the […]