The General Secretary of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, Baba Uthman Ngelzarma, says Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo’s office is helping the herdsmen to create Ruga settlements across the country. Ngelzerma boasted that when the programme has been successfully completed, Nigerians would fully enjoy the benefits of animal husbandry. …

A recent report of the slump in the price of crude oil to about US $60 from almost US $70 per barrel has really become worrisome for Nigeria’s implementation of the 2019 budget, despite some development in the Persian Gulf, which should not be a source of inspiration, after all. …

A report the other day that President Muhammadu Buhari had instructed Ministry of Justice (MOJ), Inspector-General of Police (IGP) and National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to work out modalities for the implementation of the report of a committee which was set up in August last year on police reform is …

These are not the best of times for the average Nigerian citizen. At home the dire straits of the economy impose hardship hitherto unknown in our documented history. The social climate is akin to that of a season of war and anomie. Recent reports have shown evidence that Nigerians who …

Nigeria’s power sector has gone through twists and turns over the years and the recurrent problems of the sector have become intractable, or so it seems. Governments come, read copiously from the book of lamentation on this and go. But the problems remain with the citizens who have been serially …

President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent promise to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty in 10 years is a tall order that requires critical thinking and more details about implementation strategy for service delivery. The target can only be achieved if government adopts a different socio-economic model. Unfailing commitment and resolve …

States operating the Contributory Pension Scheme refused to remit about N3.4bn pension contributions deducted from their workers monthly remunerations into their respective Retirement Savings Accounts with their Pension Fund Administrators. The acting Director-General, National Pension Commission, Aisha Dahir-Umar, disclosed this during the second quarter consultative forum for states in Lagos …

  The umbrella body of civil society organizations working towards the total elimination of malaria in Nigeria, formerly known as Association of Civil Society in Malaria Control, Immunization and Nutrition, ACOMIN, Delta state chapter, held an advocacy meeting with key stakeholders and traditional rulers in five selected local government councils …

A Nollywood writer, actor and director, Kagho Harley Akpor, has reportedly drowned in a swimming pool at a popular hotel in Asaba, Delta State. Although the details of the incident were still sketchy as of press time, sources said Akpor was at a location shooting a movie with other crew …

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Ministry of Finance to sell all recovered and liability-free assets in six months. Some politicians and former government officials had their assets seized in the course of the anti-graft war of the Buhari administration. Speaking Tuesday while briefing the House of Representatives Joint Committee …