From High 5s to IPDS, Adesina sets 2nd term agenda at AfDB
Four days ago, on August 27, 2020, I was re-elected as President of the African Development Bank Group. I wish…
Unlatched container fatalities: Lagos residents blame bad roads, security agencies’ inaction
OLALEKAN OLABULO, in this piece, reports the apprehension of Lagos residents over the increasing rate of fatalities as a result…
Abandoned Hopes •How NDDC failed the Niger Delta
Ebenezer Adurokiya visited the sites of some projects handled by Niger Delta Development Commission discovering that most have become moribund.…
How Lagos/FG war fuels illegalities, deaths on Lagos waterways
Water transportation, which has become the option for Lagos residents as the desirable land movement is hindered by bad road…
X-raying Dangote’s ambitious plunge in petroleum refining
In a peninsula east of Lagos, 30,000 workers are employed on a project that holds out the promise of transforming…
In Osogbo, Maitama Sule comes alive again
IT has been three years since the passage of Alhaji Yusuf Maitama Sule. The Centre for Black Culture and International…
Licensed recruiters, placement agents not involved in human trafficking — ARLPAN
Rex Bamidele Jacob, the president of Association of Recruiters, Licensed Placement Agents of Nigeria (ARLPAN) and Managing Director of Jj…
Lagos ports: Where congestion crisis pits operators against port users
In recent times, the ports in Lagos have been bedeviled by an increased number of overtime cargoes, thereby reducing yard…
Ogun: Why road construction, rehabilitation are key to economic growth
No meaningful development can be achieved by any government without good infrastructure. In Ogun State, the present administration led by…
Beirut explosion: UNESCO says 159 schools, 85,000 students affected
The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), Director-General Audrey Azoulay, said on Thursday that 159 private and public schools…
A growing community of fact checkers fighting misinformation in Nigeria
The year 2020 will be etched in the minds of many for many various reasons. At the top of this…
My four weeks battle with COVID-19 —Segun Awolowo
While many people still express the belief that COVID-19 is just hype, the executive director of the Nigerian Export Promotion…
Trove of 1,000-year-old gold coins unearthed in Israel
Israeli youths have unearthed hundreds of gold coins stashed away in a clay vessel for more than a thousand years,…
Beware of the law of CAMA •As Religious leaders rail against FG
BIOLA AZEEZ reports that the newly signed Company and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) is currently raising dust among non-governmental bodies…
Your particulars or partiKOLAs? •Who has the right to check your vehicle papers?
On a daily basis, Nigerian motorists are stopped on the road while their vehicle papers are demanded for to be…
We pay N250,000 bribe per trip, Lagos truck owners cry out
TOLA ADENUBI and SEGUN KASALI bring to the fore the plights of those sustaining the largest economy in the country.…
‘I lived as a beggar. I begged to eat, I begged to wear clothes, I even begged to put my head under a roof’
Without a future plan, the Federal Government disengaged about 400,000 youths from its National Social Investment Programme (NSIP), N-Power following…
COVID-19: Donald Trump urges US varsities to reopen
U.S. President Donald Trump has urged universities to keep reopening their campuses in spite of reports of COVID-19 cluster outbreaks…
‘600,000 FGM cases perpetrated by healthcare providers annually’
Though constant sensitisation is believed have is believed to have reduced the incident of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in today’s…
NCC supports MCSN’s GoCreate app
The Nigerian Copyright Commission (NCC) has expressed its unflinching support for the Musical Copyright Society Nigeria’s (MCSN) GoCreate app which…
