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8 Apr
Conceived in the 1970s, the Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline, TSGP, was to bear natural gas from Warri in the Niger Delta to Niger Republic, Algeria and Europe. On January 14, 2002, then Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC...
8 Apr
In this instalment, I relate to the recent presidential ban on foreign trips by ministers, heads of departments, and agencies, at the expense of government, for three months in the first instance.
8 Apr
Squealing to the discovery of petroleum, Nigeria has rapidly grown into a major food importing nation as the government has become neglectful of the agricultural sector since petroleum is considered a more viable resource for economic development
7 Apr
As I was saying before the electricity jumbo bill and other related bills came to compound our expenditure woes:
7 Apr
African youths often participate in witch-hunting campaigns. They blindly and dogmatically believe in witches, sanction, instigate, and commission witch and demon hunting and exorcism in their families and communities.
7 Apr
I feel disgruntled as a devout Muslim! The Holy Quran aptly posits that there should be no compulsion in religious beliefs.
5 Apr
Recently, the International Women’s Day 2024 with the theme “Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress” was celebrated globally. Although the United Nations mainstreamed this event in 1977, its origin is actually traced to the period of the Russian Revolution...
5 Apr
Peter Obi shook the political establishment in 2022 when he chose to run as presidential candidate of the obscure Labour Party. He captured the imagination of the youths.
5 Apr
Another round of bank recapitalisation is here and for the next two years between April 1, 2024 and March 31, 2026, the nation’s 25 commercial and six merchant banks are expected to shore up their minimum share capital by as much as 100 per cent...
5 Apr
It cannot be for nothing that we human beings are endowed with the faculty with which to reflect, to weigh and examine, to think and in the words of a wise man, think and think until thinking hurts.
5 Apr
Has Nigeria learnt any lessons from the Okuama massacre? Will the incident repeat itself or offer profound lessons against future experience? In the journey of life, no individual or nation or country is immune from occurrences thrown up by circumstance
5 Apr
Professor Omajuwa Igho Natufe is an intriguingly intriguing fellow, an intriguingly intriguing old chap of the Safarian hue true and true. He can/could be agreeably agreeable and disagreeably disagreeable at the same time..
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As the whereabouts of former Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello, remain unknown a week after he was declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and placed on a watch-list by the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS)
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Ahead of May Day next week, workers are demanding a country that works for all and not just for some privileged few.