By Eric Teniola There is a hardly a day that goes by now, that we don’t read in the media of billions of naira being stolen by an agency in the central government. The whole thing is sickening. The rate at which money is being stolen in the central government has become like a curse. […]Continue Reading
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Dangote Cement Promo Produces new 60 millionaires 60 new millionaires emerge in Dangote Cement Promo
The ongoing Dangote Cement Bag of Goodies Promo season 2 has produced 60 millionaires spread across the nation, thereby cushioning the effects and impact of COVID-19 on businesses and families, according to the company’s Director of Marketing, Mrs. Funmi Sanni. She said that more winners are expected to emerge in the coming weeks. She said […]Continue Reading
By Dr. Nuruddeen Muhammad “I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it” That was Jack Nicholson when he starred as Col Nathan R Jessep in […]Continue Reading
By Graça Machel, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo–Iweala, Dr. Vera Songwe, and Maria Ramos COVID-19 has unearthed massive inequalities within our societies and brought to glaring light the unique burdens that women carry the world over. Allocation of response resources should be targeted towards the immediate needs of managing the virus as well as future-looking to simultaneously Continue Reading
BOOK REVIEW Title: LINGUISTIC CRITICISM OF THE AFRICAN NOVEL Author: Kayode Omole Publisher: Bloom Media Network Ltd, Abuja, Nigeria Year of Publication: 2019 Number of Pages: 161 Reviewer: Prof Gbenga Ibileye DISINTERING THE STYLISTICIAN’S PERSONA FROM HIS Continue Reading
…Says victims died as heroes Borno Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, is deeply pained by insurgents’ execution of aid workers whom he described as heroes that were gruesomely killed in the course of serving humanity. Zulum’s spokesman, Malam Isa Gusau, said in a statement released Thursday morning, that the Governor was informed of the execution on […]Continue Reading
“Strong people don’t put others down — they lift them up.” So says the discreet sign at the entrance to one of the most remarkable research facilities in Africa. Run by a Cameroon-raised, Harvard-trained molecular biologist, the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID) has been at the forefront in the fight […]Continue Reading
Recent military operations in Sokoto has seen bandits regrouping away from their usual hideouts. In retaliation for aerial bombardments by the Nigerian Air Force, they have been attacking villages, displacing thousands of farmers. Our correspondent speaks to some of the people displaced by this latest twist in the bandits’ crisis. Recent military bombardments of bandits’ Continue Reading
…Commend Dangote for transforming their lives Previous winners of star prizes in the Bag of Goodies national consumer promo Season 1 done by Dangote Cement Plc in 2019 have expressed huge excitement over the approaching Season 2 version, which is billed to take off nationwide in July. The star winners, among the 40 lucky individuals […]Continue Reading
By Godwin Onyeacholem Just off Ozumba Mbadiwe Street in Victoria Island, immediately behind a cluster of residential apartments popularly known as 1004 flats, and directly opposite a quaint one-storey building on the other side of Adetokunbo Ademola Street, lay a row of bungalows finely spruced up with middle-class taste. It was in one of these […]Continue Reading
The international community is showing special interest in the mode of development peculiar to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), which has followed the road of its choice without a single mistake and failure for over 70 years. When a nation takes its destiny in its own hands and carves it out by its […]Continue Reading
Macroeconomy has stabilized, as economic decline is ‘relatively moderate’ External Reserves stands at $36 billion, enough to fund import for seven months Some 1,200 Housing Units delivered Ajaokuta Steel Company will be resuscitated Siemens agreement will see to the rehabilitation of transmission lines, and by 2023, electricity infrastructure shall transmit 11,000 Continue Reading