Nigeria’s foreign policy in a changing world (3)
Continued from Wednesday One of the major challenges facing Nigeria’s foreign policy is the plight of Nigerians in prisons abroad. Over 9,000 Nigerians are in various prisons all over the world, the...
View ArticleNSE Index rises by 0.1%
Activities on the Nigerian Stock Exchange gained marginally on Wednesday to close on a positive note. At the close of trading activities, the NSE’s All-Share Index rose by 0.1 per cent or 18.30 basis...
View ArticleRaising funds from the capital market (2)
In this concluding part to last Thursday’s article, the Chief Executive Officer, Trust Yields Securities Limited, Alhaji Ola Yussuff, tells SIMON EJEMBI how the prices of shares are determined and how...
View ArticleI’ll not disappoint Nigerians – Buhari
Former Head of State and Congress for Progressive Change presidential candidate in the 2011 presidential election, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has said he will not disappoint Nigerians if given...
View ArticleThatcher effigy torched as ex-miners celebrate death
In a former colliery village in northern England, ex-miners still bitter about the 1980s coal pit closures under Margaret Thatcher’s government celebrated her funeral on Wednesday by torching her...
View ArticleEssential nutrients for teens
Carbohydrate. Carbohydrates are our main fuel source for all functions, especially our brain and muscles, which will not function properly without it. At least 50 per cent of your total daily calories...
View ArticleAPGA crisis: Financial secretary disowns convention, election
The internal crisis rocking the All Progressives Grand Alliance has taken a new dimension with its National Financial Secretary, Alhaji Habib Gajo, disowning his purported election by the Governor...
View ArticleBamigbetan: Gani Adams OPC joins search, family anxious
National Coordinator, Oodua People’s Congress, Chief Ganiyu Adams, said the organisation had called its coordinators to find the Chairman, Ejigbo Local Council Development, Lagos, Mr. Kehinde...
View ArticleACN, Presidency clash over Jonathan’s Lagos visit today
President Goodluck Jonathan’s scheduled visit to Lagos today has sparked a war of words between the Action Congress of Nigeria and the Presidency. Jonathan is expected to arrive in Lagos on Thursday...
View ArticlePopular entertainment lawyer, Efere Ozako is dead
Nigeria’s popular entertainment lawyer, Efere Ozako, has passed on. Popularly known for his ‘Wetin Lawyers Dey Do?’ slogan, Ozako is reported to have died of cardiac arrest. Information has it that he...
View ArticleEmeritus trip to Mount Patti
Former Nigerian Permanent Delegate and Ambassador to the UNESCO, Emeritus Professor Michael Omolewa recently came home to inspire adventurers to the Mount Patti in Lokoja, writes Akeem LASISI Thirty...
View ArticleRallying the divas to round table
Publisher of Nigerian Entertainment Today, Ayeni Adekunle, rallies stakeholders to a national conference He has interviewed many of them on many occasions. He has written about them, and he has...
View ArticleNnena and Friends for London tour
Nnena & Friends is planning to make 2013 summer memorable for kids and teens across Nigeria, with a planned tour London this August. Before now, Nnena had prosecuted similar educational tours to...
View ArticleBeautiful Nubia to perform
Afro folk singer, Beautiful Nubia, will perform at EniObanke Art Centre on Sunday. A statement from EniObanke states that the show is a consolidation of Nubia’s recent exploits, which culminated in his...
View ArticleAdulawo on stage at UNILAG
Arrangements have been concluded to show Adulawo (The Black Race) at the University of Lagos on April 22. A dance-theatre piece which portrays the challenges, day to day activities, occupation,...
View ArticleMy baby is more beautiful than yours!
Nigerian artistes posting pictures of their babies on the social media may have started a new fad of baby fairs, writes CHUX OHAI More than ever before, Nigeria’ star artistes have imbibed the habit of...
View ArticleOko-Baba fire victims leave Lagos camp
About 451 Oko Baba inferno victims finally left the Lagos State Relief Camp, Agbowa, on Thursday many weeks after the January 8, 2013 fire at Ebute-Metta. Many of them were jubilant, as they prepared...
View ArticleBanks shut out customers over robbery scare
Many residents of Akure, Ondo State could not carry out bank transactions in the town on Thursday because they were shut out by bank officials. The development was due to rumours which were peddled by...
View ArticleFG abandoned us – Survivor of 2011 election massacre
A survivor of the April 2011 Bauchi attack on National Youth Service Corps members, Miss Omowunmi Adeniyi, has said the Federal Government and the police have abandoned families of affected victims....
View ArticleCCECC worker drowns in Ikorodu river
The body of a 33-year-old worker with China Civil Engineering and Construction Company, Asher Balogun, was discovered on Wednesday night, two days after he drowned in a river under the Asolo Bridge,...
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