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The recent arrest of an Ilorin-based cleric, Abdulrahman Bello, who allegedly murdered and dismembered Ms Yetunde Lawal, a final-year student at Kwara State College of Education, in the same town …

A careful observation would easily reveal that the country’s social tapestry is gradually unravelling under the weight of sports betting. Its negative impacts on our society far outweigh the positives …

Whilst the raging kerfuffle over General Chris Musa, Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff’s (CDS) visa refusal, and that of his entourage, by the Canadian High Commission in Nigeria, shows little …

Famed for being a financial and commercial powerhouse and boasting of hosting Africa’s largest market in terms of geographical size and volume of goods, Onitsha is the jewel nestled on …

For all we know, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) was established as regulator of banks not an institution to engage in advocacy for banks. However, in what looks like …

Pete Hegseth, the U.S. Secretary of Defense made a statement that the President of the United States of America Donald John Trump was working to achieve peace between Russia and …

The Nigerian political landscape is heating up, and unsurprisingly so, given the intrigues and power struggles leading up to the 2027 elections. One of the most notable figures re-emerging in …

February 17, 2025, will go down in the annals of Lagos and Osun states as epochal and Black Monday. There was a political tremor in the Lagos State House of …

Some members of Northern Nigeria’s political establishment are fond of stamping their feet and threatening to withdraw (voting) support to Southern Nigerian presidents who do not kowtow to their (sometimes …

In January 1983, a suspicious fire incident did considerable damage to NECOM House, the high-rise building in Lagos that housed the headquarters of the country’s telecommunications monopoly, then known as …