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The business educational development of Northern Nigeria took a new turn at the weekend when the renowned businessman, Aliko DANGOTE donated a N1.2 billion ultra-modern business school edifice to the Bayero University, Kano, (BUK), first of such in the northern part of the country. Christened Dangote Business School, the business mogul disclosed that talks are […]

Taraba State youths have been urged to embrace digital communication tools to develop themselves and make necessary impact in the society. Malam Imam Imam, a youth activist and Special Adviser on Media to Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, stated this when he spoke at the 2018 orientation exercise for Taraba students of Usmanu Danfodio University, Sokoto. […]

The acrimony caused by the December national convention of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has continued to fester in spite of moves to mend the fences. Many of the aggrieved members, especially some members of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the party are reported to have defected to the Social Democratic Party (SDP). […]

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has requested Engr. Suleiman Adamu, Minister of Water Resources and Rural Development to “explain why Nigeria’s water and sanitation infrastructure has continued to deteriorate and millions of Nigerians have to resort to drinking water from contaminated sources with deadly health consequences, despite the authorities claiming to have spent trillions […]

  My name is Olawale Esther Modupeoluwa. I was born on October 25 1995, to my parents Zubir Olawale Ibrahim and Mrs Fowokemi  Olawale both native of Owo, Ondo State, Nigeria. My parents lived in Ido-Ekiti where I was born. My father major in construction and stone crushing, my mother was a trader. My father […]

President Muhammadu Buhari said Friday that the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, must run a leaner and smarter organisation by cutting costs and becoming more efficient to achieve the objectives of the sub-regional body. Speaking while receiving the new President of the ECOWAS Commission, Mr Jean Claude Brou at the State House, Abuja, […]

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has alleged that Boko Haram has become source of indirect treasury looting; saying “Those benefitting from Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) scams, payment of ransom (in dollars) to free those abducted by the Boko Haram insurgents, among others will never wish to see the end of the insurgency.” The governor […]

The Dangote Rice Outgrower Scheme in Jigawa State reached a turning point yesterday when the President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote laid a foundation stone for the construction of a multi-billion Naira rice processing mill in Hadin, Jigawa state. The mill with capacity to process 16 metric tons of paddy rice per hour, when completed […]

The World Economic Forum for 2018 may have come and gone, but the question that will linger remains what lessons African leaders took out of it. The summit in Davos had ‘Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World’ as its theme, and the issue of climate change was on the front burner once more. […]

My attention has been drawn to fallacious comments made by the notoriously dishonest Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, to the effect that the Jonathan administration did not act on time when the Chibok Girls were kidnapped whereas the Buhari government acted promptly when the Dapchi Girls were kidnapped. Speaking at the foundation laying ceremony […]

Quite a number of Nigerians have risen on the shoulders of religious, ethnic, or regional sentiments, which very often they help to massage, to positions of political and social influence or power. And because the masses have refused to outgrow such manipulations those manipulative leaders have continued to threaten their commonwealth. Private fights of those […]

The fate of Nigerian students would depend on the outcome of the 2018 convention of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), its President, Chinonso Obasi, said on Friday. According to him, there were plans by agents of government to polarise and create division among members before its forthcoming national convention. Obasi in a statement said […]