Africa’s Global Bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc has released its audited financial results for the half year ended June 30, 2024, showing impressive performance across some key financial indicators.
The audited financials released to the Nigerian Exchange Limited … Read the rest
A 2023 report by Brand Finance City has ranked Lagos as the fifth best African city with high desirability by people to work, live and invest in.
According to the report, Nigeria’s commercial city polled 56.7per cent in a survey … Read the rest
Concerned about the threat of climate change to Africa’s survival and stability, Nigerian born British undergraduate, Prince Emeka Obasi junior, on Saturday, formally launched a non governmental organisation, ‘Our Tomorrow,’ with a view to rallying youths of the continent and … Read the rest
Fellow Nigerians, I was supposed to give the speech, largely reproduced below, two days ago in Ibadan, but I was in Accra, Ghana, so opted to speak via Zoom. The occasion was the seminar on Broadcast Media and National Security … Read the rest
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On Sunday, September 5, 2021, President Alpha Conde, 83, of Guinea Conakry was deposed by a team of former elite military forces led by Lt. Col. Mamady Doumbouya. Conde does not deserve anyone’s sympathy and that does not necessarily amount … Read the rest
By Farooq Kperogi
The following column was first published on the back page of Saturday Tribune on July 27, 2019 but has been fraudulently attributed on social media to Pat Utomi who has refused to disclaim it even when I’ve … Read the rest
Edgar Lungu
As a secondary student, one of the compulsory literature texts that my set read for the West African School Certificate Examination (WASCE) was a book titled Zambia Shall Be Free by Kenneth Kaunda. Our teacher had a funny way of … Read the rest
Mike Adenuga and Dele Momodu
Fellow Africans, let me assure you that I have met many extraordinary personalities in my personal capacity as well as in my career as a journalist, but none is as enigmatic as Dr Michael Adeniyi Agbolade Isola Adenuga. Just in … Read the rest
Minister of Eduction, Adamu Adamu
Established in 1948 as a campus of the University College, London, somewhere around Eleiyele in Ibadan, the University of Ibadan as it later became known when it assumed an independent status in 1962, has the history of Nigeria, its greatness … Read the rest
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was appointed Monday to head the leading international trade body as it seeks to to resolve disagreements over how it decides cases involving billions in sales and thousands of jobs.
Okonjo-Iweala, 66, was appointed director-general of the … Read the rest
