The ongoing 2018 Commonwealth Business Forum in London, which started Monday and will end on Wednesday, features former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi. According to a statement from the organisers Monday, others to speak include, former Ghana President John Mahama…
UBA lists on NSE Premium Board
The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Monday, migrated the pan-African financial institution, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc to its Premium Board after meeting its stringent Corporate Governance Conditions. The Premium Board is the newly created platform for elite companies…
3 artists selected for 2018 Lagos-Berlin residencies
Goethe-Institut Nigeria has announced the selection of three artists for the Lagos-Berlin residencies initiated in 2015 to strengthen the dialogue between Germany and Nigeria. The selected artists are Ojudun Taiwo Jacob (Nigeria) and Natalia Orendain del Castillo and Jumoke Adeyanju…
Why I want to represent Delta South in the Senate – Uduaghan
Immediate-past Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan, has said he wants to represent Delta South Senatorial District at the Senate in 2019 because of his desire to pursue quality legislation that will lead to the end of the crisis…
Section 5 and the Mohammed Bello Adoke case – Reuben Abati
His Lordship Justice Binta Nyako at the Federal High Court sitting in the Federal Capital Territory last Friday, gave an instructive, landmark judgment in the matter between Mohammed Bello Adoke and the Attorney General of the Federation on the extent…
The RANDY Prof and the VERY BRAVE girl – Peju Akande
There is no need rehashing line by line the recorded phone convo that circulated last week on WhatsApp Naija and Naija in the diaspora. We’ve all heard the crass Professor soliciting for sex to upgrade a female student who may…
Tara Fela-Durotoye: Making up the road less travelled
When Tara Fela-Durotoye came on the Nigerian make-up scene in the late 1990s, it was not as organised as it now is. The doggedness and never-say-die attitude from one who has said that her life didn’t start as a bed…
Tourism sector contributed N800bn to Lagos GDP in 2017 – Ambode
Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, on Monday said activities within the tourism sector, which has massive opportunities, contributed about N800 billion to the state’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2017. The Governor made the declaration at the Lagos Tourism Summit,…