Vice President Kashim Shettima has departed Abuja to represent President Bola Tinubu at two major international Summits in Rome, Italy; and St Petersburg, Russia. Shettima, who left Abuja’s Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport at about 3:00 pm on Sunday, will join other global leaders for the first Stocktaking Moment Summit themed, “Transforming Food Systems for People, Planet and Prosperity,” holding from …

The story that is on every lip and also trending widely is that “life is hard”. It is indeed true. The times are tough and Nigerians are no longer smiling due to unbearable economic hardships. Who will protect the vulnerable and long-suffering masses who are struggling daily to eke out a living? Who will cover their “nakedness”? President Bola Ahmed …

I received the material you are about to read from a beloved first cousin of mine, Architect Akintunde (Tunde) Imolehin way before the inauguration of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as president. Titled, Asiwaju: 10 Things Before 29th May, I cannot actually say why I did not print it before Tinubu’s inauguration since the “10 things” listed therein were meant as …

For Ukeme Udofia, a widow, mother and headmistress of Christ The King Primary School, Uyo, Friday, 14th July 2023 will remain unforgettable. But the day began like any other day in her 22-year career as a teacher. As usual she woke up early, prayed and prepared food for her three children and dashed off to work. She was there in …

There’s a trending video from nine years ago. If you watched it casually, you might in fact think that it was done yesterday. It was a clip of Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni, narrating what happened in 2014 when a delegation of African heads of state was asked by AU to mediate the Libyan crisis at the time. Museveni’s account of …

Revival Assembly is set to host the 21st edition of Azusa Camp Meeting, from Monday, 24th to Sunday, 30th July at the church auditorium in Ogba, Ikeja-Lagos. The convener and founder, Apostle General Anselm Madubuko will lead an army of preachers and gospel artistes billed to feature at the camp meeting, themed ‘Acts of the Holy Spirit’. They include Pastor …

Jehovah’s Witnesses in Nigeria have opened a historical museum to document the 100 years of the work of the witnesses in the country. The museum is also to document the extraordinary story of ordinary Nigerians and foreigners including men, women and children, whose acts of faith laid the foundation for the thriving activities of over 400,000 witnesses in the country. …

We failed to qualify for the last FIFA World Cup due to the ineptitude of those charged with the responsibility of managing our football. We had everything we needed to blight the Black Stars of Ghana yet we could not manage to qualify for the most prestigious football tournament in the world. Prior to the final two-leg round of matches, …

By some prodigious coincidence, this year makes one full decade of the publication of a compendium on groundbreaking constitutional litigations filed by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. Titled: Landmark Constitutional Law Cases in Nigeria: 2004 – 2007: The Atiku Abubakar Cases, the book was authored by Maxwell Michael Gidado, PhD, SAN; and Chudi Nelson Nwosu. It was released in 2013, …

We shall be towing the tacit wisdom in the thinker’s truism that the greatness of a nation is not so much in the great deposit of its natural resources, but in how it treats its workers, the ordinary, productive, taxable legion of its citizens. One of the most instructive moments for me was the statement uttered by the usually cerebral …