Experts back bank recapitalisation, warn against past mistakes
By NAN Financial and economic experts have stressed that the current recapitalisation push is a necessary step for economic stability but caution that poor regulation and macroeconomic instability could derail…
Professors to earn extra ₦1.8m annually as FG unveils new lecturer allowances
Full-time Professors in Nigerian universities will henceforth receive an additional annual allowance of N1.8 million, even as full-time Readers are now to receive an additional N870,000 annual salary increase, the…
Mayflower School at 70
By Lekan Sote Mayflower School, Ikenne in Ogun State, founded by iconoclastic educationist and political activist, Taiwo “Tai” Solarin and his British wife, Sheila, turns 70 years this month. Those…
Kaduna govt clarifies death sentence on Victor Solomon
Kaduna State Government has described as false and misleading the comments circulated on social media over the death sentence passed on Victor Solomon, also nick-named as Zidane, insisting that the…
Democracy Under Pressure: Threats To Nigeria’s 2027 Elections
By Samson Itodo As Nigeria transitions into full election mode for the 2027 general elections, the political temperature is heating up at a scale that puts the country’s democracy under…
Gbenga Daniel, Assembly mediates in Army, Ogun community land dispute
Former Governor and the Senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, and members of the State House Assembly have waded into the land dispute between 16 communities of…
Why Nigerian Armed Forces Remembrance Day Should Be A Public Holiday
By Fisayo Ajala Armed-Forces-Remembrance-Day-Army The 15th of January is celebrated annually as Nigerian Armed Forces Remembrance and Celebration Day (AFRD). This day honours the supreme price paid by fallen heroes…
That Senate’s Probe To End Decade Of Unsafe Schools
By GEB The Senate’s decision to summon the Minister of Finance Wale Edun and others in President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s cabinet over the collapse of Nigeria’s $30 million Safe School…
Exemplary Life, Profession And Statesmanship Of Afe Babalola (2)
By Tunji Olaopa Chief Afe Babalola did not abandon Nigeria. On the contrary, he has left his imprimatur on several dimensions of the Nigerian space. He has blazed a trail…
FHC adjourns Sowore’s N1.2b suit against IGP, AGF, others to March 10
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has adjourned the N1.2 billion fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by human rights activist Omoyele Sowore against the Inspector General of Police (IGP),…