‘Only restructuring can guarantee Nigeria’s survival’
Chief Olusegun Osoba, Former governor of Ogun State As Nigeria marks 57 years of nationhood, a former governor of Ogun State and chairman of the Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Olusegun Osoba, said the country was gradually moving towards disintegration and only the restructuring of the polity can pull it back. Seye Olumide reports: How...
Gmail users may have to pay for storage
Many Gmail users have had to make several complaints over delayed mail delivery or having difficulties sending mails without actually knowing what went wrong. Anyway, Gmail which is an e-mail service offered by Google, (Gmail is short for Google Mail), started as a limited beta release on April 1, 2004, and ended its testing phase on July 7, 2009. Initially, all emails...
FG saves N192bn from capital flight
Federal Government through National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP), said over N192 billion has been saved from capital flight. This was disclosed by the Director-General of NOTAP, Dr Danazumi Ibrahim during a briefing in Lagos. According to him, the saving was between 2010 and 2016. And this was achieved through NOTAP’s refusal to approve the importation of technologies and services...
Nigeria’s unsustainable food import bill
IN spite of the Federal Government’s reported commitment to diversification of the economy through agricultural production, available statistics from three key government institutions indicate that such efforts are yet to yield the desired results. Figures from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), and the Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria (ARCON) – all point...
Russia 2018: Eagles: Zambia won’t survive Uyo
Trabzonspor of Turkey star, Ogenyi Onazi and Changchun Yatai FC of China forward, Odion Ighalo have vowed that the Super Eagles players will fight with their last drop of blood to clinch the Russia 2018 World Cup ticket come Saturday in Uyo. With two matches left in the Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup Africa Zone qualifying tournament, Super Eagles of Nigeria sit on...
Nigeria to create 1m jobs via data science
Nigeria is expected to create one million new jobs in the next 10 years. This was the prediction of Data Science Nigeria, a non-profit initiative of MTN’s executive, Bayo Adekanmbi. He said, it would spurr on a compelling drive to raise a new generation of world-class data scientists and knowledge entrepreneurs who will set up data science-based businesses and attract foreign exchange...
Amosun sacks MAPOLY rector
… As students protest ‘poor state of education’ Ogun State Government has directed Rector of the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta (MAPOLY), Prof Oludele Itiola, to proceed on terminal leave, as efforts to find lasting solutions to the crisis rocking the institution hit the rocks, yesterday. The state government has appointed Mr. Ayodeji Salimon Tella, as acting rector. Secretary to the Ogun State Government,...
Reps probe JAMB’s reduction of cut-off marks
The House of Representatives has commenced investigation of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB)’s decision to to lower cut-off marks for admission into Nigerian universities and polytechnics. To get to the root of the matter, the House has mandated its Committee on Tertiary Education and Services to investigate the circumstances which led to reduction in the cut-off marks. The committee has...
IPOB more dangerous if they go underground -Ikeji
Ikechukwu Ikeji is a lawyer, based in Lagos. In this interview, he faults the proscription of IPOB by a federal High Court and the proposed law on hate speech among other issues. The Federal High Court in Abuja recently declared the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) a terrorist organisation. This was after Justice Binta Nyako also of a Federal High Court...
IPOB: An expression of Igbo marginalization -Okoro
Mr. Barnabas Okoro and former Deputy Director, Administrative and Staff College of Nigeria (ASCON) has condemned the branding of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as a terrorist group by the federal government. This is just as he described the use of force against Igbo agitators who according to him were exercising their fundamental human rights as a crime against humanity....