Estimated Reading Time: 4 Rising oil prices will bring short-term relief, butmay delay essential reforms. TALK THAT everything is expensive fills the air at a market in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital. Since February the minibus fare from home to the market has doubled, says Emmanuel Mokwe, who sells kitchen utensils.[Read More…]
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#Throwback: General Dogonyaro coup speech that overthrew Buhari on August 27, 1985
Estimated Reading Time: 4Famous coup plotter, General Joshua Dogonyaro is dead at 80. The retired general was popular for being a member of the ‘langtang Mafia’ during his days in the military. He was also responsible for announcing the coup that removed current President, Muhammadu Buhari from power in 1985.[Read More…]
SPECIAL REPORT: How special needs students are struggling against the Nigerian educational system
Estimated Reading Time: 5By: Olatunji Olaigbe On the 20th of March, 2021, Jamiu Jibril, a visually impaired student sat to write his Master’s entrance examination at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ilorin. He had an aid who read out the questions and wrote down his answers for him, and[Read More…]
Murder in Uyo: Who Killed Hiny Umoren?
Estimated Reading Time: 15On Friday April 29, a 26 year-old lady set out around 1PM to attend a job interview in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. Having recently completed her university program despite losing both parents, she was looking for a way to support herself before being called up for the[Read More…]
Holding on to Faith: Muslims and the Search for a Conducive Environment
Estimated Reading Time: 5 I observed Ramadan for the first time outside my home country, Nigeria, in 2015. It was in Johannesburg, South Africa when I was a student at the African Leadership Academy. Remembering it now – notwithstanding the school’s attempt to create a conducive environment – it was[Read More…]
Digital Transformation: How FCT women are expanding their businesses
Estimated Reading Time: 8By Emiene Odaudu-Erameh “Crayfish is for the local women out there, Crayfish smells,” is what Augustina Onoriode’s close friends told her when she was about to venture into her business of selling local groceries online. Augustina said she was not surprised by the reaction of her friends[Read More…]
We’re not Hypocrites: Ramadan and the Struggle to be Better
Estimated Reading Time: 4 It is Monday April 12th, 2021, the day before Ramadan. I am scrolling through Twitter to share and retweet everything Muslims can find helpful, as they prepare for the sacred month. In the midst of that, I come across one tweet with an offbeat take: that[Read More…]
300L student arrested for selling cookies laced with drugs to school children
Estimated Reading Time: 2A 300-level university student, Rhoda Agboje and her boyfriend, Ifeanyi Nwankwo have both been arested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for producing and selling cookies laced with drugs to school children and other unsuspecting members of the public in Abuja. The agency[Read More…]
‘I expect new Police chief to do very well’ – Says President Buhari
Estimated Reading Time: 1President Muhammadu Buhari says he expects a lot from the Acting Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba. The President stated this while answering questions from Journalists at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, shortly after he arrived from a routine[Read More…]
‘That is what you get when you demarket your country’ Lai Mohammed answers why Twitter snubbed Nigeria
Estimated Reading Time: 2The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has accused Nigerians and the media of being responsible for Twitter snubbing Nigeria and deciding to have Africa headquarters in Ghana. Twitter Inc on Monday announced that it is opening shop in Ghana, a move many in the Nigerian[Read More…]
