Eswatini’s government has confirmed it will take in 11 additional migrants deported from the United States later this month, as part of President Donald Trump’s toughened immigration enforcement campaign. The government said the arrivals will be kept in secure facilities…
Kenya is taking a bold new step toward financial independence as President William Ruto announced plans to create a sovereign wealth fund and an infrastructure fund — two major initiatives aimed at driving development without piling up more debt. According…
My campaign is code named ESSE and titled the Mandate of hope. ESSE is a greeting common with the majority of Owan people. It brings love, hope, and suitable in every situation of life in Owan. ESSEH is an acronym…
Three young Nigerian pupils—Muhammad Hamisu Abubakar, Fatima Muhammad Gumel, and Munawwarah Abubakar—have authored inspiring books that promote empathy, honesty, and drug abuse prevention. Guided by child development expert Mrs. Khadija Raji, their works aim to foster literacy and positive values…
BY TONY ERHA “Okuo na hon y’ oto ighi gb’ adowe”. A war foretold does not consume the lame; echoes a Benin idiom. What started as mere ruse and a bottled-up emotion, some months ago, had finally reached a…
The Kano State Commissioner of Police has come under intense criticism after boycotting Nigeria’s 65th Independence Anniversary parade in Kano on October 1, 2025. The police were conspicuously absent at the event, which was attended by Governor…
By Erasmus Ikhide A nation sixty-five, yet still in search, Of its identity, its purpose, its perch. A paradox of greatness, a land of contrasts, Where strength and weakness, in endless dance, entwists. A toddler at sixty-five, unable to stand,…
By Tatalo Alamu The actuality has turned out to be more dire than the auguries. The sixty fifth anniversary of Nigeria has now come and gone. As it has been predicted, the national mood was sombre and subdued. As the…
Nigeria’s brewing industry has sounded the alarm over the Federal Government’s plan to introduce tax stamps on excisable goods, warning that the policy could disrupt production and worsen the nation’s inflation woes. The Executive Director of the Beer Sectoral Group…
Despite holding one of Africa’s largest deposits of lithium — a mineral crucial to electric vehicles and renewable energy — Nigerian investors have been largely sidelined in the booming lithium trade. The mineral, worth an estimated $34 billion in Nigeria,…
