By Rotimi Adesina Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has described as shameful , the re-arrest of a popular Human Rights activist Prince Deji Adeyanju, on the order of presidency. Frank, however, fingered the Vice President
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IN 1844, the Revd Samuel Ajayi Crowther returned home to Yoruba land (now part of modern-day Nigeria). Twenty years earlier, he had been kidnapped and sold to European slave traders who were bound for the Americas. He was freed by an abolitionist naval patrol, and received by the Church Missionary Society. There, he found […]
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday left Abuja for N’Djamena, Chad to attend the meeting of regional leaders on the menace of Boko Haram. The President, who left in the morning is to chair a consultation of Heads of State and Government of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC). The regional summit is also aimed to […]
…as Gov earmarks N500m for Benin Royal Museum By ABIODUN JIMOH Efforts by the Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki and the Benin Monarch, Omo N’ Oba N’ Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Ewuare II, to retrieve artifacts stolen from the state in the colonial era are yielding results as European governments have set modalities in […]
Within a space of six months this year, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has so far expended about $20.91 billion to stabilise the naira at the various segments of the foreign exchange (forex) market. These include its interventions during the second and third quarters of the year at the forex market derivatives such as […]
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday said Africa was still faced with low performance in education, health and food security in spite of economic growth on the continent. He also said that the continent was still bedevilled with poorly developed infrastructure, poor leadership and governance. Obasanjo said this in his address of welcome at the formal […]










