PREMIUM TIMES The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has projected a high cost of doing business in 2020. Muda Yusuf, the LCCI Director-General, made the projection in the LCCI 2019 Economic Review and Outlook For 2020 made available…
GUARDIAN We write to you regarding Mr. Omoyele Sowore, a New Jersey resident, who was arrested on August 3rd and charged with treason, money laundering and cyber-stalking associated with his call for demonstrations. We are deeply concerned that established legal…
VANGUARD The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) have executed agreements over the multi-billion dollars Escravos Gas-to-Liquid (EGTL) project. Speaking at a sign-off meeting in Abuja, the Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Mallam Mele Kyari,…
VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa IN the heady days of the Babangida and Abacha military regimes, the State Security Services, SSS, frequently invaded the Imaria Street, Anthony Village, Lagos office and home of Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti, BRK, leader of the pro-democracy…
VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa THE Labour Party was born in 1900 by trade union and socialist parents and what its leader, Jeremy Corbyn tried to do in this month’s British elections, was to return it to its origins which emphasise…
VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa TRAGICALLY, our country is headed back to the odious days of General Sani Abacha when dissent was regarded as criminal, protest as a coup and reason as treason. In the last few days, patriotic Nigerians including…
THE NATION Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday explained why gunmen attacked his country home in Otuoke, Ogbia Local Government Area, Bayelsa State. A soldier on guard duty at the courtyard and another was injured during the daring attack. Multiple…
PUNCH For the second year in a row, the Federal Government has failed to carry out its planned sale of some of its stake in joint venture oil assets. The Federal Government did not include the sale of the JV…
PUNCH The Central Bank of Nigeria has reduced charges on current account and some other services. It stated that card maintenance fee on current account had been removed as the accounts already attracted account maintenance fee. The CBN clarified charges…
PUNCH South-West governors will on January 7, inaugurate Operation Amotekun, a security strategy meant to combat killings and kidnapping in the zone. The Ekiti State Commissioner for Information, Mr Muyiwa Olumilua, who said this in an interview with one of…