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2 Feb
The distance from Lagos to Aba, in Abia State, is 464 kilometres, and normally completed in six to eight hours. While the road infrastructure has improved, to anticipate a better sail for motorists, the traffic has become more chaotic – with a new travel time of 12 to 16 hours!
30 Jan
In the last three years, incessant criminal occurrences have placed Ogun State in the category of states with the highest rate of crimes in Nigeria.
28 Jan
The Bible Society of Nigeria (BSN) is known for impacting lives. Aside from making the Word of God available to everybody in the society to promote godliness, good governance and stem corruption, greed and avarice in the country...
28 Jan
Is the Non-Aligned Movement still around? Is the organisation still in existence? That was the weighty question Professor Ikechukwu Okoro, a visually impaired Nigerian and Iowa State University don, slammed on me the moment I informed him of my mission in Kampala, Uganda.
27 Jan
With the challenges occasioned by technology and other unexpected occurrences such as the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic that disrupted economic activities for most parts of 2020, businesses – small, medium and large scale – have continued to appraise the way they run their affairs to remain afloat amid the vicissitudes of today’s world.
24 Jan
Quite impressive is the new vigour at the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) that has led to the issuance of 204,332 passports backlog within a two-week ultimatum. The laudable reform, led by the Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, would however be incomplete without purging the NIS of old bureaucracy, inefficiency and saboteurs, TINA ABEKU reports.…
21 Jan
From 2015 to 2023, Nigeria allocated N3.2 trillion for electricity subsidies, and in 2024, an additional N1.6 trillion is projected to be spent. This accumulates to an electricity tariff shortfall of N4.8 trillion over a span of about nine years. Despite these substantial subsidies, the state of electricity supply in the country is deteriorating under…
15 Jan
Many companies, including local and foreign ones that are operating in the country, have put in place strange and illegal age-limiting policies that have ensured that countless employable Nigerians are deprived of job opportunities based on their age, regardless of their skills and competencies.
14 Jan
I’m declaring cult activities here as an act of terrorism… I have sounded a note of warning time past, I am resounding a fresh note of warning to all cult members, to their parents, to their landlords and to their sponsors
14 Jan
Olatunde Odunowo is a poultry farmer based in Abeokuta, Ogun State, who had invested over N500m into the business. As the practice in that line of business, he didn’t want to take risk, so, he approached an insurance company to indemnify
12 Jan
In ancient Rome, the phrase, “Hail Ceasar” was a constant greeting, and acclamation that was meant to show respect and homage to Julius Caesar, the famous Roman general, and statesman. That phrase eventually became a popular expression used to acknowledge someone grandly or respectfully.
7 Jan
The unrelenting massacre of Nigerians in the Middle-Belt States, particularly the most recent that took place on 23rd to 25th December 2023, has shown without any doubt that the government and security forces have failed in their responsibility as stated in Section 14(b) of the 1999 Constitution...

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