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Residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, have been rattled by insecurity, especially the frequent and indiscriminate kidnapping of persons within the city centre and its outskirts. ODITA SUNDAY reports that the routine failure of intelligence gathering and poor preparedness among security agencies has come to the erstwhile haven of the ruling elites.   Despite multiple…

Thirty-Three years after the nation’s seat of power was moved from Lagos, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has begun a comprehensive rejig of its governance system to curb rising spate of insecurity threatening its 8.5 million population.

More than three months after the Islamic Resistance Movement popularly called, Hamas, attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, Israel has retaliated very ferociously on Gaza Strip consistently in the bid to tame and deal with members of the group.

The distance from Lagos to Aba, in Abia State, is 464 kilometres, and normally completed in six to eight hours. While the road infrastructure has improved, to anticipate a better sail for motorists, the traffic has become more chaotic – with a new travel time of 12 to 16 hours!

In the last three years, incessant criminal occurrences have placed Ogun State in the category of states with the highest rate of crimes in Nigeria.

The Bible Society of Nigeria (BSN) is known for impacting lives. Aside from making the Word of God available to everybody in the society to promote godliness, good governance and stem corruption, greed and avarice in the country...

Is the Non-Aligned Movement still around? Is the organisation still in existence? That was the weighty question Professor Ikechukwu Okoro, a visually impaired Nigerian and Iowa State University don, slammed on me the moment I informed him of my mission in Kampala, Uganda.

With the challenges occasioned by technology and other unexpected occurrences such as the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic that disrupted economic activities for most parts of 2020, businesses – small, medium and large scale – have continued to appraise the way they run their affairs to remain afloat amid the vicissitudes of today’s world.

Quite impressive is the new vigour at the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) that has led to the issuance of 204,332 passports backlog within a two-week ultimatum. The laudable reform, led by the Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, would however be incomplete without purging the NIS of old bureaucracy, inefficiency and saboteurs, TINA ABEKU reports.…

From 2015 to 2023, Nigeria allocated N3.2 trillion for electricity subsidies, and in 2024, an additional N1.6 trillion is projected to be spent. This accumulates to an electricity tariff shortfall of N4.8 trillion over a span of about nine years. Despite these substantial subsidies, the state of electricity supply in the country is deteriorating under…

Many companies, including local and foreign ones that are operating in the country, have put in place strange and illegal age-limiting policies that have ensured that countless employable Nigerians are deprived of job opportunities based on their age, regardless of their skills and competencies.

I’m declaring cult activities here as an act of terrorism… I have sounded a note of warning time past, I am resounding a fresh note of warning to all cult members, to their parents, to their landlords and to their sponsors