Reaching the unserved, underserved: Young Nigerian fixing Nigeria’s power problem
Feb 25, 2020 Under current policies, an estimated 8 per cent (650m people) of the global population will not have access to electricity in 2030, 90 per cent of which…
Imo State Governorship Election: Options before the Supreme Court
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu When it sits on Tuesday, 18 February 2020, to consider the application to review its judgment of 14 January in the matter of the petition on…
Dear women, to avoid cervical cancer, don’t smoke – Expert
Public Health Physician, Dr Chioma Nwakanma, says that women who smoke are twice as likely to develop cervical cancer compared with women who do not smoke. Nwakanma, who is also…
We are nine graduates in this Okada park, Sanwo-Olu has taken bread out of our mouth
Some operators of commercial motorcycles (Okada) and tricycles `Keke’ NAPEP in Lagos said that the ban on their operations by Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu would deprive them of their daily bread….
Passenger in Ethiopian Airways brings Coronavirus to Botswana
The Republic of Botswana has announced that it has registered its first ever suspected case of Coronavirus on Jan. 30, stating that the suspected case was registered at Sir Seretse…
Sexual assault: Women opt for martial arts for self defence
Frustrated by rates of sexual assault, poor law enforcement and tribal taboos that keep people quiet about gender violence, some Nigerian women are breaking with tradition to take self-defense classes….
Buhari has been my hero since 1984, don’t recruit me to hate him; writes Adesina
If Nigeria should die (which we don’t pray for), then hatred killed her. Done in by hateful hearts and lying tongues. People who hate others for no just cause, and…
AEO 2020: Africa’s growth decline partly due to the moderate expansion of the continent’s “big five” – Report
For the first time in a decade, investment expenditure rather than consumption accounts for more than half of GDP growth; report calls for urgent investment in education and…
How stolen phones from UK fuel Nigeria’s mobile phone market
Investigation has exposed how stolen phones in the United Kingdom have found their way to Nigeria to become a major part of the booming mobile phone market in Africa’s largest…
Weapons used in northern communal crisis came from Libya, Turkey – Study
Weapons that have been used in inter-communal violence that has killed thousands of people in northern Nigeria have been trafficked from Ivory Coast, Libya and Turkey, according to a new…