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First Lady to Women: Mobilise Grassroots Voters in all 774 LGAs For Tinubu’s Reelection in 2027
• Targets all-round APC victory from presidency down to state assembly •Collapses all women support groups into one, unveils Tinubu women campaign council •Says reforms moving Nigeria from crisis to
FG Inaugurates 10 Diagnostic, Three Cancer Centres Across 10 States
Segun Awofadeji in Bauchi As part of efforts to transform the country’s healthcare system, the federal government has disclosed the completion and simultaneous commissioning of ultramodern diagnostic centres across 10
Abubakar Kyari: Nigeria Can’t Afford Fragmented Agriculture Policies
• Seeks coordinated budgets, investment, production among states • Declares early procurement yielded N61.58bn in fertiliser savings James Emejo in Abuja Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Abubakar Kyari,
Tinubu Celebrates Alake at 70, Hails Him as Steady Hand, Loyal Ally
• President praises minister’s decades of service, public communication •Says Alake fought dictatorship, human rights abuses under military rule • Insists his work in solid minerals drawing local, global admiration
Tinubu’s Return: An Update
REUBEN ABATI Exactly a week ago, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu now jokingly renamed a citizen of Kano with a Northern-sounding name Ashiru Bala Ahmadu Tanimu, whatever that means, by former
$10bn Investment Puts Ogun, NNPC Partnership and Long-Delayed OGLNG Project at Centre of Emerging Coastal Economy
By Kayode Akinmade For more than three decades, the Olokola Liquefied Natural Gas project remained largely a promise on paper. Now, renewed discussions between the Ogun State Government and the
Beyond diversification of ports
The Federal Government’s approval for the comprehensive modernisation of Onne, Delta and Calabar ports, alongside establishment of six new deep seaports, is laudable. It is a potentially transformative attempt to
Nigeria since 1999: When will the years begin to count? By Dakuku Peterside
Think of a Nigerian born in 1999, the year civilian rule came back. That person is twenty-seven now. They have never lived under a military government. But they may have
Edo’s special court sends clear message: Justice must catch up with kidnappers, by Ejiro Ofoye
The fight against kidnapping and violent crime in Nigeria has often suffered from one debilitating weakness: the distance between arrest and justice. Suspects are arrested, paraded before television cameras, arraigned
Why Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway (3), by Eric Teniola
This week continues the narrative on Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway. No doubt that region has contributed a lot to modern-day Nigeria. Their leaders too, some of whom are alive while some
