BY JOHN PAUL: Recently, I embarked on a journey to Ugbamaka lgah, the ancestral home of Senator Attai Aidoko representing Kogi East. Whirling the community without a glance on potential pay-off for producing a Senator of the Federal comes, I…
Felix Onajite: Since the financial crisis that enveloped the global market a decade ago, the profitability and reputation of banks has been under tremendous pressure worldwide, Nigeria inclusive. Whilst the banking industry is now regaining its health, the entrant of fintechs…
Ahmed Tinubu, National Leader of All Progressives Congress, APC, and former Lagos State Governor, Tuesday, said former President Olusegun Obasanjo has failed as a leader during his tenure and lacked the credibility to speak for Nigerians on who to vote…
Ondo State police command has confirmed the death of a suspected kidnapper who was arrested in a botched kidnap attempt in Owo, following complications from a high intake of tramadol. The suspect according to Agency report had been unconscious since…
Nigeria presidency has responded to a publication in Daily Independent Newspaper that foreign powers are mounting pressure on president Muhammadu Buhari to drop his ambition for re-election in 2019. This was stated in a press release signed by Femi Adesina,…
Nigeria’s acting president Yemi Osinbajo has directed the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to, with immediate effect, overhaul the management and activities of Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). The order follows persistent complaints and reports on the activities of the SARS…
John Audu Kwaturu, the deputy speaker, Kaduna State House of Assembly, has officially resigned his position as the deputy speaker of the Assembly. The lawmaker, had last week Friday dumped the ruling party, All Progressives Congress, APC, citing impunity and…
Ibrahim Dakwambo, the Governor of Gombe State, is currently in a closed-door meeting with the former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Dakwambo, a presidential aspirant under the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) arrived his Obasanjo’s private residence located inside the premises…
The Tilapia and Aquaculture Developers Association of Nigeria (TADAN) Tuesday decried the exemption of Tilapia, a farmed fish species, from the federal government’s import prohibition list. Remi Ahmed, the association’s National President, expressed the group’s displeasure with the list in…
A Lagos High Court in Ikeja has released the Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Moshood Salvador and 10 others charged trial for alleged murder. Vacation judge, Justice Obafemi Adamson also released 10 others who were…
