The plan of the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA)to demolish all illegal structures within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) may yet be a tall dream, as many of these settlements which were pulled down by the development control, always sp...
Constantly regarded by many as a pace-setter for the good, the bad and the ugly in labour matters, Enugu can be rightly termed “the labour capital” of Nigeria. It was in Enugu that the police shot at strikin...
Information is power. That is a truism. In realisation of this, it is expedient to take a cursory look at the advent of the internet and the upstaging of world governments just as in recent and ongoing wikileaks revelations. Even Nigeria was not...
Presidential adviser on ethics and former presidential aspirant Dr. Sarah Jibril is who one could describe as a stickler for values and ethics. Now on board the president’s team of advisers, she has a lot to share on how to transform Nigeria. She...
Chief Victor Rapial Lar is the senator representing Plateau Southern Senatorial Zone in the National Assembly. He speaks with ACHOR ABIMAJE, shortly after resuscitating five motorized boreholes in his constituency. Lar says he is wiling to partne...
Minister of State for Education, Barrister Ezenwo Nyesom Wike says he is committed to addressing the challenges facing basic and secondary education sub sectors under his purview. In this interview with FRANCIS OTTAH AGBO, the Minister declares t...
Since the declaration and swearing-in of Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State for a second four-year-term, he has been faced with many problems, particularly from the opposition party, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN). In this interview with the ...
Is the Federal Ministry of Finance being unfairly accused of impeding a probe by the House of Representatives into its controversial concessioning of a key import and export clearing documentation services contract to Single Window Systems and Technolo...
Enugu is regarded by many as a pace setter for the good, the bad and the ugly in labour matters. It was in Enugu that the police shot striking Coal Miners in 1949 , killing 21 and wounding about 51 for demanding better welfare packages .On ...
The chase was on. The men of the Abuja Environmental Protection Board’s task force ran after two adolescent female hawkers carrying satchet water and groundnuts, respectively.Everyone stared in suprise, because no one could tell where the men cam...
Many a young people have lost their dreams, while fantasising about their dreams and failing to lift a finger in making it come true. Not so with Vincent Omeje. He had the idea, he fantasised about it and put it to work. All that is left is putting it ...
In the year 2000, a few months after the new democratic government of the then President Olusegun Obasanjo was sworn-in, one of his solutions, he claimed, to the country’s deepening poverty crisis came in the form of the National Poverty Eradicat...
The general secretary, Indigenous Shipowners’ Association of Nigeria (ISAN), Capt. Niyi Labinjo, is one man who is passionate about Nigeria’s maritime industry. From a naval captain to a shipping line owner and maritime analyst, he has a gr...
An economist and and a security expert, Dr. Sunny Joseph Moneke, in this interview with SHUAIB SHUAIB, shares his views on the current security concerns of the nation and the need to restructure the security agencies to contain the challenges ahead. Te...
Erelu Aisha Babangida –Shinkafi, daughter of General Ibrahim Babangida and the wife of immediate past governor of Zamfara state, Alhaji Dalhatu Shinkafi is a lady who takes great interest in solving other people’s problems, which make...