US Jails Osun Monarch For COVID-19 Fraud
A United States court has sentenced Oba Joseph Oloyede, the Apetu of Ipetumodu in Osun State, to 56 months in prison for his role in a multimillion-dollar COVID-19 relief…Read More
Spotlight: Femi Otedola Contradiction – Making It Big, Keeping Nigeria Small
If you open Making It Big: Lessons from a Life in Business, expecting to learn how to build a fortune in Nigeria, brace yourself for disappointment. What you will find…Read MoreEditorial: Femi Otedola’s Making It Big in a Rigged System
Femi Otedola has gifted the world his memoir, Making It Big: Lessons from a life in Business. A generous gesture, indeed because nothing says “self-made” like a billionaire explaining how he went from his father’s printing press to a government-blessed oil monopoly while insisting it was all hard work. In point of fact though, the […]PDP Zones Presidency To South, Chairmanship To North
The National Executive Committee (NEC) of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rose from its 102nd meeting on Monday and unanimously agreed to zone the presidential ticket of the party to…Read MoreInternational Syndicates Exploit Security Gaps To Steal Crude — NNPCL Boss
The Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Bashir Ojulari, has said that specialised international and continental gangs take advantage of security gaps to steal the crude across Africa. Ojulari stated this at the opening of the Africa Chief of Defence Staff Conference held in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, […]Power sector: The watts that weren’t! – By Abiodun Komolafe
There was a delusion that the privatization of the power sector – an existing, dilapidated monopoly – would be as straightforward and eventually beneficial as the transformative liberalization of the telecommunications industry. What we are now witnessing is the shattering of that illusion, with the critical failure of the electricity sector. The entire framework was […]Tinubu Arrives In Brazil To Begin State Visit
President Bola Tinubu arrived on Monday in Brasília, Brazil, to commence a state visit. President Tinubu, who flew in from Los Angeles, United States, was received by senior Brazilian government officials at the Brasília Air Base. The officials included Ambassador Carlos Sérgio Sobral Duarte, Secretary for Africa and the Middle East and Ambassador […]Babatunde Fashola’s wisdom, Nyesom Wike’s wealth – By Sonala Olumhense
I commend Babatunde Fashola, a former Governor and former Minister, for his advocacy of a sports-driven economic model for Nigeria. Speaking at a book presentation, Fashola said Nigeria’s policymakers had “ignored a solution hiding in plain sight” by failing to fully develop sports as a business and an untapped solution to the country’s youth […]Police Arrest ‘Fake’ Doctor As Patient Dies During Abortion
Detectives from the Akwa Ibom State Police Command’s headquarters in Ikot Akpanabia, near Uyo, the state capital, have apprehended a fake medical doctor, identified as Sunday Okon Akpan, for allegedly…Read MoreJapan designates city as hometown for Nigerians
The government of Japan on Thursday named the city of Kisarazu as the hometown for Nigerians willing to live and work in the country as part of its strategic efforts…Read MoreTICAD 9:Tinubu Lauds Nigeria`s Armed Forces,As Japan Pledges $5.5bn For Africa
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Wednesday in Yokohama, Japan, lauded the Nigerian armed forces for their successes in the war against insurgency and criminality while emphasising his administration’s commitment to…Read MoreEditorial: America’s Assault on Nigerian Free Speech
The United States has long positioned itself as the world’s champion of liberty, democracy, and free speech; and never tires of lecturing the world about censorship and human rights. Yet, from the very halls of its embassy in Abuja, the US government unveiled a policy that strikes at the very heart of those values; imposing […]
