By ADEBAYO PAUL TRAGEDY struck at Idumoza Community, Uromi, Esan North-East Local Government Area of Edo State, as a hotel under construction collapsed and killed its owner identified as Harrison Isesere. Eyewitnesses said the building collapsed last Friday 1st August 2025 while the owner was inside. Over 20 other workers at the hotel site escaped […]
PROMINENT pro-democracy and civil rights advocacy group, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), has described as nepotistic, inherently self-serving and detestable, the recent action of President Bola Tinubu for approving a one-year extension of the tenure of the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi. HURIWA faulted the extension of service […]
By SUMAILA OGBAJE A defence and Security Tech Expert, Zulaykhah Aileru, has called on the Federal Government to introduce targeted incentives for local defence technology entrepreneurs, to promote indigenous innovation in defence production. Aileru, a certified protection and security professional (PSP, CPP), made the call in her opinion on the future of Nigeria’s defence industry […]
By IBUKUN EMIOLA MR. John Karunwi, Chairman, National Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (NASME) in Oyo State says that Nigeria’s rebased GDP of ₦372.82 trillion will open new tax incentives, funding opportunities, and growth prospects for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). Karunwi stated on Monday in Ibadan that the development would reshape the […]
THE management of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) will release the results of the May/June 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) on Monday, August 4, 2025. The school examination was taken by 1,973,253 candidates from 23,554 approved secondary schools. WAEC Head of National Office (HNO), Dr. Amos Dangut, will announce the release […]
By NANA HAUWA MUSA THE central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the Yuan, strengthened 101 pips to 7.1395 against the dollar on Monday. This is according to the China Foreign Exchange Trade System. In China’s spot foreign exchange market, the Yuan is allowed to rise or fall by two per cent from […]
By ZAGAZOLA MAKAMA THE Benue State Police Command has launched a manhunt for a woman identified as Salome Tersoo, who allegedly killed her husband during a domestic altercation in Agera Mbaashia, Gaav district of Konshisha Local Government Area. Sources told Zagazola Makama that the incident occurred in the early hours of 31 July and was […]
RESIDENTS of Ogbeozoma community in Okpanam, a suburb of Asaba, the Delta capital have lamented the havoc wrecked by Sunday heavy rainfall that left them stranded and trapped. Report stated that the major road that linked the entire community of no fewer than 1,000 households occupied by civil savants among others have been taken over […]
By AYOOLA FASEYI THE Greek philosopher Socrates once said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” But in today’s Nigeria, we appear more concerned with shining surfaces than confronting the festering sores beneath. The Yoruba people have a saying: “Ti ikun n ro, ko ni fi aso bo inu e,” which means “When the stomach […]
AS l grow older, particularly as a student of history, I’m more reflective about developments in our country. The brash, abrasive “I’m always right” mentality, particularly in the South West, needs to be interrogated. One thing l love about the North, in spite of their differences, the northern intelligential, knows how to manage their […]