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The prices of major food items, such as bags of beans, pepper, tomatoes, eggs amongst others have witnessed a significant surge in Lagos State markets, while the price of local and foreign rice record a slight decrease. This is according to the latest market survey, carried out by Nairalytics Research – the research arm of Nairametrics.  According to the report, a big bag of brown beans that was initially sold for an average of N33,500, rose by 3.7% to sell for an average of N34,750. Also...

Nigeria: A Tale of the Madman and the Hoe, By Oluwadele Bolutife Nigeria has been long at the cliff, and there is no more assurance that the precipice will not give way sooner than later. While it is lamentable that we are not necessarily represented by our best across board, the leaders who thought they were building bridges by selling their people as cheap commodities now have a chance for soul searching. Is Nigeria actually one; with things tilting in the same direction? There is no doubt th...

In this interview with GODWIN ISENYO, the National Public Relations Officer of the Southern Kaduna Peoples’ Union, Mr Luka Binniyat, berates  influ...

For the umpteenth time, Bandits visited their dastardly act this time on Government Science Secondary School, Kagara, Niger State, kidnapping 27 students and 15 others, killing one and leaving in their wake, blood, sorrow and tears as families have been left devastated. This was only the latest in a series of similar nasty incidents, in the North East and North Central parts of the country. Thankfully, the passengers who were kidnapped from Rafi Local Government, also in Niger State, a few days...

Buhari As a crucial sense of nationhood is being perilously depleted while key managers of that ideal dawdle, jumbled narratives around three recurring and disruptive ‘brands’ need rejigging, writes Louis Achi IN THE ARENA Perhaps, aided by a contrived conceptual fog in the face of clear and present dangers, key national stakeholders are pushing muddled models of engagements with disruptive eruptions – ranging from unarmed separatist activism to clearly militarised, brazen and bloody crim...

ON THE GO CCT chairman assaults security officer in Abuja, says ‘the guard was rude’ Danladi Umar, chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), who was caught on video physically assaulting a security man at Banex Plaza, Wuse 2, Abuja, says the guard was “rude”.Advertisement... Lagos council chairman impeached over ‘financial misappropriation’ Oladotun Olakanle, chairman of Onigbongbo local council development area (LCDA), has been impeached.Advertisement Accor...

Nobody queries the obviously utter uselessness of the country to her bemused citizens. We fought to keep it one, die everyday to keep it one, struggle to keep it one, yet our lives get worse everyday!

ON THE GO AK-47, army uniform recovered as police kill ‘bandit kingpin’ in Zamfara The Zamfara police command says the leader of a bandit group in the state has been killed during a patrol by officers attached to operation Puff Adder II.Advertisement Communities across... JOB ALERT: Osun announces recruitment into Amotekun The Osun government has announced recruitment for persons interested in joining the Western Nigeria Security Network, also known as Amotekun, in the sta...

A Havard PhD dissertation by Viridiana Rios Contreras revealed that 19 out the 50 most violent cities in the world are in Mexico. Doubtless, Mexico is one of the most violent countries, if not the most violent, in the world. For decades in Mexico, there was a lassez faire atmosphere of criminal entrepreneurship enabled by institutional and political leadership remissness that later innocuously metamorphosed into wholesale institutional complicity on a national scale. Beginning from the early 50...

Findings revealed that the abductions were mostly carried out in the suburbs of the capital city. Some of the freed hostages narrated their harrowing experiences in the hands of their abductors even as they claimed that they sold all their possessions to pay the ransom. The latest kidnap incident happened a week ago at Tungan Maje, a suburb of Abuja, where a retired immigration officer and four other residents of the town were abducted and released two days after the ransom was paid. It was gat...