As I return to my serial on ‘The God of Big Things’ this week, I would like to appeal to my compatriots to continue to see hope in Nigeria. Why do I advertise this optimism? After serving last week’s ...
Intercepts $4.8m, CFA57m suspected fake currencies on Lokoja-Abuja highway; as Sokoto district head bags 5 years in jail over drug dealing Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA...
Perceived callousness in society comes, chiefly, from the responses of the government to public issues as they affect individuals and the collective. As a country and society, we are perhaps the most...
• The partnership will facilitate cross-border payments to 110 countries worldwide by adopting the Visa B2B Connect platform. • Businesses will enjoy cost-effective, reliable, and secure cross-border ...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has lifted foreign exchange, FOREX, restrictions on the importation of 43 items. In 2015, the Apex Bank put some imported goods and services on a list of items not va...
When in 1992, James Carville, Bill Clinton’s campaign strategist uttered the quip on television: “It’s the economy, stupid”, little could he have realized that he had pronounced a phrase that would re...
Nigeria must be deliberate in its desire to take opportunities offered by the energy transition, the recognition of gas as a transition fuel and the quest for clean energy to increase its gas investme...
Too many unusual events in politics point to the fact that democracy is under threat. A few events, some recent and others very current, will demonstrate this point. The first is Donald Trump, possibl...
There was a tit-for-tat fight at the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing in Abuja a few days ago. The Minister in charge of the Ministry, Dave Umahi, came to work at 9.30 a.m. only to meet a handful...
The Economist Intelligence Unit 2009 ranked Nigeria in the world’s top five most diverse countries. It simultaneously ranked the country as the 45th of 47 countries sustaining national diversity. Dive...
