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Recently, Nigeria’s number one multinational oil giant, Shell revealed its intention to withdraw from Nigeria’s onshore oil sector. Analysts believe this can compound the economic challenges of Nigeria’s mono-product economy. Making this known Shell’s CEO, Van Beurden, said his organisation was in talks with the Nigerian government to work out how to drop its onshore…
In the last twelve or thirteen months, Nigeria’s media industry has lost some of its most precious gems — Proprietors, Editors, Administrators, and Columnists. These are people who shaped the narratives of their platforms and what the industry stands for. Through exciting and challenging times, they set the tone and picked their words carefully to…
The kind of relationship that existed between the Federal Government under Muhammadu Buhari and Reverend Father Ejike Mbaka in the last six years could best be described as a sizzling romance between the cassock and the soapbox. Interestingly, the romance went sour a few months ago. Recently, Garba Shehu, the spokesman of the president, issued…
When President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Hadiza Bala Usman as the first ever female Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) in July 2016, many Nigerians received the news with mixed feelings. Prior to her appointment, she was the Chief of Staff to the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, helping to spearhead reforms in a…
Concerned stakeholders have continued to lament the pressures female marketers are made to undergo. Some banks are known to engage female employees and assign to them very high and unrealistic targets for deposit mobilisation and other assets creation ventures. With the current challenging times and the struggle for survival in Nigeria’s uncertain labour market, those…
The use of non-biodegradable materials such as plastic has remained a source of concern across the world. With an increasing global population and undeniable climate change, the plastic onslaught on the environment is causing unprecedented threats to human existence. Plastic has remained a popular material for casing and handling because it is flexible, lightweight, and…
Mr. Garba Ahmadu is the Commander, National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), in charge of Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA). In this interview with Godwin Anyebe, he reels out several arrests made at the airport in the past three months, how the judiciary handles drug suspects, and how they are tackling new mode of concealment…
The magnitude of Nigeria’s security problems seems to have exceeded the coping capacity of the conventional security outfits in Nigeria combined. Only few states have minimal security challenges. From Imo State where separatist are on a rampage, to Kaduna and Benue where university students were kidnapped right in their hostels, the news sends panic into…
Twitter recently announced that it is opening its first African office in Ghana. In an official statement, the company took time to elucidate the reasons for choosing Ghana over other locations. In their explanation, the social media company said Ghana was prioritised because, “as a champion for democracy, Ghana is a supporter of free speech,…
Lagos State has been experiencing a massive population increase in the last two decades. This is mainly due to galloping urbanisation and huge exodus from rural to urban areas. Owing to its teeming population, Lagos State is constantly faced with enormous challenges in terms of infrastructure provision and the need to cope with the increasing…
