Telecom giant, MTN Nigeria Communications plans to pump over N600bn into network infrastructure across Nigeria over the next three years. The move is expected to improve telecommunications services across the country. This was revealed by the Chairman of MTN Nigeria Communications, Dr Ernest Ndukwe, at the company’s 20th anniversary celebration held in Lagos on Sunday. Read More…
SUDDENLY, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, the world’s number one self-appointed policeman, is the butt of vicious jibes. Some have likened the US misadventure in Afghanistan to the tragic fall of Kunrumi in Ola Rotimi’s play of the same title. Ola Rotimi painted the trajectory of Kunrumi’s hubris vividly: “When the tortoise is going on Read More…
World football federation FIFA has called on various governments to request the emergency evacuation of female players from Afghanistan. They are said to fear for their lives after the Taliban’s takeover of the Afghan capital Kabul. FIFA said the situation in Afghanistan “remains unstable and very worrying”. A statement added: “We remain in contact with Read More…
AFGHANISTAN IS IN CHAOS. There are videos of Afghans clinging to aircraft taking off and dropping to earth. The dominant media blames the Taliban takeover for the chaos. Not the true story. The chaos has more to do with the Western forces of occupation suddenly fleeing and abandoning the country after a 20-year misadventure, and Read More…
In what has become a recurring decimal in northern Nigeria, 75 people were abducted by gunmen from Rini, a village in Zamfara State on Saturday. This is coming as a sort of retort to the charge by Nigeria’s President, Muhammad Buhari, on Thursday to service chiefs to ramp up their efforts. The spate of kidnappings Read More…
The 10-year old marriage of a couple, Stephanie and Geoffrey Ode, came to a crashing halt on Friday when an Igando Customary Court in Lagos dissolved the marriage on grounds of infidelity and abandonment. The death knell was sounded on the marriage when the President of the Court, Mr Adeniyi Koledoye, in his judgement on Read More…
The Minister of State for Niger Delta Affairs, Tayo Alasoadura has said that international oil companies operating in Nigeria owe $4 billion to the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). NDDC is the agency responsible for fostering development in the Niger Delta, the impoverished wetlands region where much of the oil and gas industry is located. Read More…
Work has commenced on the System 3C and Alara/Adeshina collector drains to permanently curb the menace of flooding in the Majaro, Iwaya, Alara and Adeshina neighbourhoods of Lagos Mainland LGA. For this reason, the Lagos State Government, on Wednesday, rallied the support and cooperation of stakeholders and residents of these areas to sensitise them on Read More…
Nigeria’s Information Minister, Lai Mohammed has told the international news agency, REUTERS, that Nigeria may lift its ban on Twitter before the end of the year, Information Minister Lai Mohammed said on Thursday, that the government was awaiting a response on three final requests made of the social media platform. Mohammed told the news agency Read More…
A man who claimed to have a bomb in a truck near the Library of Congress has surrendered to law enforcement, ending an hourslong standoff. The man sitting in a black pickup truck outside the Library of Congress told police Thursday that he had a bomb, prompting a massive law enforcement response to determine whether Read More…