Officials of Delta Sports Commission may be having a sleepless night ahead of today’s international friendly match between the Super Eagles and Crane of Uganda, following the large turn out of fans recorded on daily basis at the team’s training ground.

I remember with nostalgia how a friend amidst euphoria triggered by the declaration of the 2015 presidential election result cautioned me with these few words; ‘’men will change their ruler expecting to fare better; this expectation induces them to take up arm against him, but they only deceive themselves, and they learn from experience that…

To provide Nigerians with quality inverters, the management of Simba Den has opened a befitting branch in Lekki.  General Manager, Simba Group Mr. Sohan Sharima, noted that the Lekki Branch was the sixth in Nigeria and the second in Lagos.   He noted that the inverters include Luminous, Genus, Kstar, which he described as being synonymous to happiness.…

Oil marketers on Sunday appealed to Federal Government to effect quick payment of its outstanding N800 billion subsidy debts...

Nigeria is losing about a half kilometre of its land mass annually to desert encroachment and time is of essence before the entire country becomes a desert. The Director-General of the Nigerian Conservation Foundation, Dr Muktari Aminu-Kano, raised the alarm in Lagos on Sunday. He made the disclosure at the 2018 edition of the Green…

Thousands of Nigerian graduates from universities across the country join the labour market (some prefer to say favour market) annually. Whether it is labour or favour market, the fact is the job market is changing at the speed of light and if these graduates do not catch up, a good number of them graduates will…

Professor Felix Kolawole Salako, Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), a Fellow of the Soil Science Society of Nigeria (FSSSN), joined the university in 2000 as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Soil Science and Land Management. He became a professor of Soil Physics in 2006 and has to his…

On Sunday November 11, world leaders gathered in Paris, the French capital, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. Descendants and successors of the old belligerents participated in the solemn ceremonies. The world has changed dramatically in the past 100 years but whether humanity has changed that much is…

That Nigeria has one of the highest number of children without access to education with about 13.2 million out-of-school children is no longer news. The statistics are staggering and hard to deny given the number of children hawking or begging on the streets everyday. Last month, an official of the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF)…

Nigeria and other African countries, as well as their entrepreneurs, would soon enjoy a first treat of their projects and investment ideas, aimed at making them attractive and feasible, courtesy of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank). The bank unveiled the initiative as a way of increasing the availability of viable and well-prepared projects in Africa,…

Sir: Many generation parents indulge their children to pointless heights. And this remains the status quo. While they can claim to have succeeded in industry, in the military, etc., the scions children are dancing away their lives in clubs and driving customised Chevrolet Impalas with friends and no plans to make an impact positively on…

Every year, thousands of children are born with autism in Nigeria. These children with autism are not diagnosed and managed on time; hence their family and society see them as burden. Due to the inability of the parents and most health workers to detect children with autism early, they (children) suffer great health loss; some…