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When the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed declared a few weeks ago that Nigerian brands that run their adverts with CNN and other foreign outlets will be fined N100,000 for every time the advert is aired, some industry players thought it was a bluff. However, they should be remarkably rattled, now that the minister has…
There are a number of Nigerians who belong to the category of rag to riches entrepreneurs, having started with nothing, but walked their ways through turbulent waters, breaking barriers to attain success. Emmanuel Isichei Ugochukwu Ojei and Alhaji Umaru Abdul Mutallab are billionaire entrepreneurs who exemplify this. They fittingly personify courage, vision, hard work, as…
Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, recently asked that traditional rulers, as custodians of culture and tradition, should only honour credible individuals who have displayed high moral values and integrity in the society with chieftaincy titles. Makinde stated this in Ogbomoso at the installation of the Director-General, Oyo State Investment and Public and Private Partnership Agency…
In Nigeria, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) is authorised by its enabling Act (the National Broadcast Commission Act 1992) to license, monitor, sanction, intervene, and arbitrate in conflicts, as well as create a code setting the standards of the contents and quality of materials for broadcast in Nigeria. In 2016, the commission issued the sixth…
Mixed reactions have trailed a new law signed by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State which mandates agencies like the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), as well as other anti-graft agencies to hand over corruption cases to the state government. Going by the legislation…
When workers, justified by the expediency of survival, take on the frontline of a business, profitability is unattainable. How does a business survive or function effectively with all sorts of employee fraud that has been the bane of businesses in Nigeria? It might be a huge surprise, but this virus eats deep into the heart…
In the middle of the highly revered Islamic season of Ramadan, Nigeria has had one of her saddest weeks. From Anambra to Kaduna, Yobe, Niger, including Lagos State, critical insecurity issues are steadily recorded and reported almost on daily basis. Virtually every two or three hours, one would receive breaking news of various disturbing reports…
The current spate of banditry, kidnapping, as well as the constant attack on security personnel and facilities, has raised the country’s insecurity challenges to a crescendo. Although one must not fail to admit that issues like banditry and kidnapping are one thing, while Boko Haram is another thing, the purported inability to defeat the insurgents…
The recent online video showing five secondary school girls from Lagos gleefully smoking certain narcotic substances called “Shisha” could be wrongly interpreted by many young people as the human imperative for freedom, exploration, and sometimes, youthful exuberance. Young people are said to learn such behaviour deficits from peer groups and what they see in the…
25 April is the day set aside by the United Nations as World Malaria Day. In 2021, Africa is still grieving over the 384,000 preventable malaria deaths that happened on the continent in 2020. The statistics for 2021 will be released next year as compilation is ongoing. But even in the midst of these tears,…
