Author: Olabanji Ayoola

A health worker checks the temperature of a traveler as part of the coronavirus screening procedure. Reuters/Francis Kokoroko/File Photo – RC2EUE9X5YKK Multiple PCR tests, quarantine, restrictions frustrate holidaymakers Foreign airlines jostle for Lagos, Abuja market without promotional tickets Blame weak naira, rate of exchange, high operating costs, says Bernard Experts explore tourism destinations within Nigeria, […]

Credit: Facebook The Senate, yesterday disclosed that the management of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) misappropriated about N84 billion within four years. The chairman, Senate Public Accounts Committee, Mathew Urhoghide, who made the disclosure, described the agency as a cesspool of corruption. “They depleted our resources, just a few human persons who are […]

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said that corruption is militating against positive outcomes to trade and contract agreements in the country. He made the disclosure yesterday while declaring open a capacity building workshop for Nigerian trade negotiators for improved terms of engagement with the rest of the world and to eradicate illicit financial flows in […]

With over 3,000 shipwrecks littering Nigeria’s coastline, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the removal of shipwrecks from Badagry to Tincan Island waterways in order to ensure smooth navigation on Nigerian waters. The Director-General, NIMASA, Bashir Jamoh, who disclosed this during a chat with the media in Lagos, said the removal of shipwrecks will […]

ACF’s proposal gets Ohanaeze, PANDEF, Middle Belt Forum support Afenifere, ARG give conditions Previous constitutions for use as guide The drumbeat of restructuring is growing louder with ethnic nationalities taking up the gauntlet. Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), on Monday told North’s lawmakers in the House of Representatives that it will spearhead a bill to reset […]

The Gbo Kabari Ogoni, an elite organization of Ogoni elders in Rivers State, have cried over the occupation of their farmlands by AK47-bearing herdsmen× The Ogoni Elders Forum in a statement titled, ‘Before we are killed again’, released in Port Harcourt on Monday, said the herdsmen were destroying their farmlands with their cows. The elders […]

Mandate South-South governors to set up common security outfit to fight banditry Militant group Avengers returns, threatens attacks on oil facilities, politicians The South South geo-political zone has raised the ante in the agitation for the restructuring of the country, handing down a three-month ultimatum to the federal authorities to start the process of giving […]

says all grievances being addressed The Presidency on Sunday said threats by a militant group, the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA), were unnecessary as its demands were already being addressed. NDA said on Saturday that it would launch Operation Humble to cripple the oil and gas industry, as well as target political figures from the region […]