Nigeria: Okupe Resigns As Labour Party Campaign DG

The Director General of Labour Party Campaign Council, Dr. Doyin Okupe, has announced his resignation from the party's campaign council over what he described as personal travails. Read more »

Nigeria: Govt Reaps $547m From 5G Spectrum Auction - Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has disclosed that auctioning of the 5G spectrum generated $547 million into federal government coffers. Read more »

Nigeria: John Olajide's Record-breaking Moves

If the US-based technology entrepreneur Niyi John Olajide was to scribble his grass-to-grace story, it would make a sold-out blockbuster movie at the box office. His story teaches… Read more »

Nigeria: Ooni Lauds Cavista Nigeria's Interventions in Healthcare

His Imperial Majesty, Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, recently visited the Lagos offices of Cavista Nigeria and lauded its founder and chairman Niyi Olajide for his strides in… Read more »

Nigeria: Tackling Sanitation and Hygiene Challenges Beyond Policies

Omolabake Fasogbon in this report, writes about individual's quota to the quest to hygiene and sanitation challenge and expedite the attainment of Sustainable Development Goal six… Read more »

Nigeria: The Essential Umaru Musa Yar'Adua

Tuesday, 5th May marked the 10th anniversary of the death of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua. In this tribute, first published on 5th June 2010, his spokesman, Olusegun Adeniyi… Read more »

Nigeria: Averting Drug Scarcity in Nigeria

For now, government should remove bottlenecks on drug importation Read more »

Nigeria: UK to Assist Nigeria in Retrieving Stolen Ife Bronze Head With Belgian

The United Kingdom has offered to assist Nigeria in retrieving the Ife Bronze Head, an antiquity stolen at National Museum, Jos in 1987 and found with a Belgian collector in… Read more »

Nigeria: Up-Close and Personal With Award-Winning Author, Ayobami Adebayo

Ayobami Adebayo was waiting at the Ouida House, GRA Ikeja in Lagos for the interview session. But the wait was not as long as the one which she endured for over a year after her… Read more »

West Africa: The Lake Chad Basin Problem

Any assistance to recharge the lake is welcome Read more »

Africa: 'Trump May Ask Duty-Free U.S. Exports to Africa' - Cohen

Ambassador Herman Cohen was Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs under George Bush (Snr.) and is now the chairman and CEO Cohen & Woods International, a Washington… Read more »

Nigeria: Nigerian Navy Acquires New Vessel From China

The Nigerian Navy Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) NNS Unity which was under construction in China has been completed and on its way to join the Nigerian Navy fleet. Read more »

Africa: Masai Uriji - Growing 'The Giant of Africa' Dream

Giving back to the society was always upper most in his mind, hence the idea of the Giant of Africa/Top 50 Camp Basketball where young Africans could develop their basketball… Read more »

Nigeria: Kenyan President Seeks UBA's Partnership On Development

President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya has unveiled plans to make Nairobi an international financial centre and had called on the United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) to play a pivotal role… Read more »

Nigeria: Moghalu - Africa Needs Economic Transformation to Prosper

The Deputy Governor, Financial System Stability of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Dr. Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu, has stressed that Africa can only prosper through far-reaching… Read more »

Nigeria: A Mind in a Progressive State of Jubilee

Emerging Africa: How the Global Economy's "Last Frontier" Can Prosper and Matter, By Kingsley C. Moghalu, Bookcraft, Ibadan 2013 Read more »

Nigeria: Country to Overtake South Africa As China's Trading Partner?

Nigeria will soon overtake South Africa as China's biggest trading partner, Nigeria's ambassador to the Peoples Republic of China, Alhaji Aminu Bashir Wali, told THISDAY in… Read more »

Nigeria: 'The Nation's Economy May Overtake South Africa by 2025'

Nigeria's economy may reach about $400 billion by the end of the decade and could overtake South Africa by 2025, economist at Morgan Stanley said in a research note. Read more »

Nigeria: African Media Urged to Embrace Digital Revolution

African media leaders ended their meeting in Lagos yesterday with a call on owners and operators of media organisations to embrace the digital revolution for seamless information… Read more »

Africa: Media Owners Seek Integration of Old, New Media

Various speakers at the second African Media Leaders Forum (AMLF), which began in Lagos yesterday, have called for an integration of the old and new media in presenting information… Read more »

Africa: More Than 100 Publishers Meet for Lagos Summit

Over 100 newspaper and magazine publishers and broadcasting chiefs from 48 African countries have arrived the country for the two-day African Media Leaders Forum (AMFL) which… Read more »

Nigeria: Test Tube Baby Clocks 13

Over a decade ago, Mr. and Mrs. Hosea Kupchi were very sad couple as they could not have a baby of their own. Due to the societal pressure, many ideas ran through their minds… Read more »

Nigeria: Tears As Soldiers Killed in Darfur Get Heroic Burial

The seven Nigerian peace keepers killed on September 30 in Darfur, Sudan, were yesterday buried in Abuja amidst wailing by family and friends. Other casualties in the attack that… Read more »

Libya: Supreme Court Upholds HIV Death Sentences

If the Libyan Government fails to grant prerogative of mercy to the five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of injecting more than 400 Libyan children with HIV in… Read more »

Africa: The Proposed U.S. Africa Command

The plan by the United States government to establish an Africa Command (AFRICOM), though still at the consultation stage is already generating controversies. But their resolution… Read more »