Nigeria is estimated (we do not even have exact figures) to earn about $37bn a year from the sale of petroleum products. I for one have no doubt in my mind whatsoever that if we turned off the oil taps today, agriculture alone could generate that figure.
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has been asked by the Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP) to call labour minister Dr Chris Ngige to order after he is alleged to have sought to divide the body using nepotistic and ethnic divisive tactics.
ABOUT 2,000 Ebonyians have been driven out of neighbouring Cross River State after a community spat blew up into a full blown dispute that saw armed youths attack shops and partake in an act of ethnic cleansing.
BRITAIN'S National Health Service (NHS) plans to embark on an ambitious international recruitment drive in a desperate bid to get foreign nurses over the next five years as manpower shortages are straining the system.
OSUN West lawmaker Senator Ademola Adeleke has been granted bail to enable him visit the US for a medical check-up after he appeared before a Federal Capital Territory high court this morning where he is facing certificate forgery charges.
VICE president Professor Yemi Osinbajo was forced to come out of his car and address irate protesters near Abuja this morning after they blocked his motorcade to protest the recent taking over of their land by the Nigerian military.
(1) To address a nation’s socio-economic problems, you have to understand the thinking of its people, appreciate their outlook and understand the pace at which they are ready to advance. This will inform the choices you make as you try to accelerate the pace of development
FORMER president Chief Olusegun Obasanjo's wide Taiwo has expressed fears that the life of her son Olujonwo is in danger over his decision to support President Muhammadu Buhari in the last general election.
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari moved a step closer to swearing-in Justice Tanko Mohammed as the substantive chief justice of Nigeria after an Abuja federal high court dismissed a suit asking that he prevented from doing so.
PLANS are being drawn up by the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) to take the payment and control of local government finances away from state governors and pay the third tier of government directly.
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has been asked by the Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP) to call labour minister Dr Chris Ngige to order after he is alleged to have sought to divide the body using nepotistic and ethnic divisive tactics.
ABOUT 2,000 Ebonyians have been driven out of neighbouring Cross River State after a community spat blew up into a full blown dispute that saw armed youths attack shops and partake in an act of ethnic cleansing.
BRITAIN'S National Health Service (NHS) plans to embark on an ambitious international recruitment drive in a desperate bid to get foreign nurses over the next five years as manpower shortages are straining the system.
OSUN West lawmaker Senator Ademola Adeleke has been granted bail to enable him visit the US for a medical check-up after he appeared before a Federal Capital Territory high court this morning where he is facing certificate forgery charges.
VICE president Professor Yemi Osinbajo was forced to come out of his car and address irate protesters near Abuja this morning after they blocked his motorcade to protest the recent taking over of their land by the Nigerian military.
FORMER president Chief Olusegun Obasanjo's wide Taiwo has expressed fears that the life of her son Olujonwo is in danger over his decision to support President Muhammadu Buhari in the last general election.
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari moved a step closer to swearing-in Justice Tanko Mohammed as the substantive chief justice of Nigeria after an Abuja federal high court dismissed a suit asking that he prevented from doing so.
PLANS are being drawn up by the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) to take the payment and control of local government finances away from state governors and pay the third tier of government directly.
