Nigerians generally hailed breakthrough by MTN and Airtel in receiving CBN approvals for Payment Service Bank (PSB) licenses. The two giants, with over 65% of Nigeria’s telecom market share, have thus been
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The almost week-long clash between rival cult members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in Lagos was another watershed in the long list of terror hot spots plaguing ordinary
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President Muhammadu Buhari recently appeared to express exasperation with the thumbs down his government has stridently received owing to the security situation in Nigeria. He insists that his government has done its
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Since 2014, the problem of soot in Port Harcourt and elsewhere in Nigeria has increasingly been of great concern, turning the once supple Garden City into a smoke city.
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One of the standout issues of 2021 in Nigeria and elsewhere was security due to its strong impact on the economy, relationships, human lives and development.
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The gale of COVID-19 infections in Nigeria’s seat of power this week made hot news because of the high-profile nature of the suspected victims most of whom are in the Presidency. The
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Impunity, no doubt, is nourishment to killings in Nigeria. Perhaps, Nigeria’s greatest woe isn’t the seemingly endless outrageous incidents that have become commonplace, but the absence of visible measures to combat such
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In Africa, the consequences of political corruption, weak policy, social divisions, failure of basic institutions and economic strife have birthed a circus of customary drug addictions. Anyone who is privy to the
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A few months ago, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA, Mr Buba Marwa, said that the problem of drug abuse and trafficking in Nigeria was on
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Nigerians who awaited federal government’s response to the report on police brutality and the Lekki Toll Gate Incident, have indeed, been served a response, albeit a most shocking one. The latest of
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