ACCOUNTING giant KPMG has revealed that Nigeria's unemployment rate rose to 37% during the course of 2022 and will further rise to 40.6% this year due to the continuing inflow of job seekers into the job market.

NIGERIAN medical bodies said they do not believe that the recent restrictions imposed by the UK health authorities will succeed in reducing the number of medical professionals travelling to the country in search of greener pastures.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has approved a request made by the trade and industry minister Adeniyi Adebayo to create an Ekiti Knowledge Zone under ambitious plans to accelerate the growth of the digital industry in the state.

SECESSIONIST group the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) has declared May 30 a day for a sit-at-home protest across the southeast geo-political zone to mark the declaration of Biafran independence on that date in 1967.

GOVERNOR Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has lashed out one of the Peoples Democratic Party's (PDP) gubernatorial aspirants in Kogi State Senator Dino Melaye saying that he is not suitable for such an exalted position.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] On a daily basis, Nigeria witnesses horrific accidents on her roads, many of them involving trailers. Our transport policy has got to be based on moving freight off the road and on to rail to help cut such deaths

[2] No country anywhere on earth has ever industrialised without a modern and efficient railway service. Nigeria’s lack of a modern railway network is a mirror reflection of how unserious we are when it comes to manufacturing

FORMER Nasarawa State deputy governor Professor Onje Gye-Wado has been released by armed gunmen who kidnapped him last week after family paid the agreed ransom fee of N4m ($8,600).

DEVELOPING nations in the Brics group of countries have now overtaken the G7 in terms of having a higher combined gross domestic product (GDP) according to recently published data from Acorn Macro Consulting.

BRITAIN has placed Nigeria on the list of countries that should not be actively targeted for the recruitment by health and social care employers under a plan to discourage the active international recruitment of workers.

Ayo Akinfe

[1] How many Nigerians know that the Gowon regime was getting an average GDP growth rate of about 20%? They did it by adopting a simple formula of gathering the best brains around them. They had a National Economic Council (NEC) which Gowon chaired and Awolowo served as its vice chairman