THE International Trade Centre (ITC), a United Nations agency focusing on small business trade, presented key policy options aimed at bolstering micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in West Africa. The insights from a position paper titled, Policy and Legal Options…
Donald Trump’s campaign saw an uptick in donations in February but failed to match the accelerating fundraising pace set by Joe Biden, whose political operation widened its already substantial financial advantage over his Republican rival as it entered March and…
SINCE the start of his political career, Donald Trump has played on stereotypes about Jews and politics. He told the Republican Jewish Coalition in 2015 that “you want to control your politicians” and suggested the audience used money to exert…
THE campaign is under way to succeed the Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State who would be leaving office after two terms in office. Voters are divided along party lines, as usual. They will be the eventual deciders of who…
ALTHOUGH I am committed to the ideals of my faith and to genuine democracy not the polluted type spiced with hypocrisy, parochial sentiments and betrayal. That should not stop me from commenting on sensitive selfish issues brought to the front…
By Inusa Ndahi, Maiduguri IN the spirit of the Ramadan period, Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has released the sum of three hundred and sixty four million, six hundred and forty thousand naira (364,640,000) to be shared among 4,558…
MINISTER of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake has inaugurated the first batch of Mining Marshals Corps to combat illegal mining. The presentation of the mining marshals took place in Abuja on Thursday. Alake said the mining marshals were drawn from…
IT is addressable that once uniquely-declined, every tendency to disrupt desires can be easily achieved. Nothing is prone to success than unique moves on every engagement. To this, making time to frustrate oneself because of meaningless comparisons or competitions, is…
US President Joe Biden announced Thursday that $6 billion in student loans would be canceled for 78,000 borrowers, bringing his administration’s total student debt cancellation to nearly $150 billion. Biden, a Democrat, last year pledged to find other avenues for…
THE Executive Vice President, Gas, Power and New Energy, Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd, Mr. Olalekan Ogunleye has identified transparency, accountability, research, technology and innovation as key drivers of the ongoing transformation in the company. Ogunleye disclosed this while speaking…
