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President Bola Tinubu has accepted the resignation of Uche Nnaji, Minister of Innovation, Science, and Technology, following allegations of certificate forgery. The announcement was made in a statement by Presidential Spokesperson, Mr. Bayo Onanuga, on Tuesday in Abuja. It will be recalled that President Tinubu appointed Nnaji in August 2023. In his […]
A familiar happy story in Nigeria: a 16-year-old graduating from a pricey private university, a 14-year-old accepted into medical school, a 16-year-old defending a thesis while classmates elsewhere are still navigating puberty. Different universities. Different disciplines. Parents with the same delusion. Young. Rushed. Immature. Unready. Social media celebrates each case as a triumph: a genius […]
Journalist, columnist and author, Azu Ishiekwene, has released a new book, entitled A Midlifer’s Guide to Content Creation and Profit. The ten-chapter book focuses on how older adults can profitably interact with and expand their frontiers in the evolving new media landscape, particularly in light of the complex and promising developments of generative artificial intelligence […]
On the eve of Nigeria’s 65th independence anniversary, I reflected on Harold Smith. He’s not widely known in popular Nigerian imagination. And that’s probably to be expected for a man who was ostracised for decades before his death by the British establishment for daring to be different. He was everything the British colonial authorities didn’t […]
A report published by the Lancet, a medical journal, projects that by 2050, about 30.5 million people will be newly diagnosed with cancer each year, representing a 61 per cent increase It has also said that annual cancer deaths will rise by nearly 75 per cent, reaching around 18.6 million. The increase, it said, would […]
The Dangote Petroleum Refinery, Nigeria’s lifeline from decades of rot in the petroleum downstream, has to fight every inch for its turf. The fight started 18 years ago, when the refinery was only an idea. In 2007, those who swore that a refinery – any refinery, public or private – would only work over their […]
In the incredibly sad courtroom drama of Tali Shani v Chief Mike Agbedor Abu Ozekhome (2025) UKFTT 1090 (PC), two ordinary Nigerians from unlikely quarters, each doing what would appear to be their daily work, made the difference. The first was Ibrahim Sani, a superintendent of police at the Force Intelligence Department of the Nigeria […]
President Bola Tinubu has lifted the State of Emergency in Rivers State, and directed that Gov. Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy and members of the State House of Assembly to resume duties on Thursday. In a statement released Wednesday in Abuja, the President said the decision followed the restoration of peace and order in the […]
Zamfara State Governor, Dauda Lawal, is hardly in the news. Lawal has enough on his plate in a region struggling with banditry and insurgency, and in a state whose political heavyweights oppose him over political differences. He has learned to mind the state’s business, hardly ever throwing stones except when attacked by Abuja politicians who […]
You may think it is still two years from the general elections and much too early for politics to gather momentum and you will be wrong. The electioneering season is actually here. Camera is rolling and action has started. Campaigning is not even subtle but it is running on a large scale on social media. […]