Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), yesterday, urged Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to arrest the reportedly dismissed Managing Director of Nigerian Incentive-based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NISRAL), Aliyu Abdulhameed over alleged fraud. HURIWA said it…

Buhari directs reorganisation of aviation agencies in line with Civil Aviation Act Nigeria and Saudi Arabia, yesterday, signed a bilateral pact to enhance capacity on accident investigation and overall safety in the air transport sector. Director General of the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB), Akin Olateru, at a brief ceremony in Abuja, said the agreement…

I was privileged to attend Kings College Lagos – the only Federal Government College or Unity School for boys at the time when the Nigerian elite still had faith in the public school system in the country. In our final year as was customary, we all wrote what we wanted to do after we left…

Better known for his role in the development of the first world-accepted herbal ‘cure’ for sickle cell anaemia, Niprissan, Charles Obadiah Nimma Wambebe was a professor of Pharmacology and the pioneer Director-General/Chief Executive Officer of the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRD), Abuja. During his tenure at NIPRD, he initiated and directed the…

Federal Government has faulted the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, for saying that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has done nothing for Nigerians in the last eight years. Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said this at the 7th edition of the President Muhammadu Buhari Administration Scorecard Series…