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Nigeria may need to take another look at some of the measures recommended by the National Economic Intelligence Committee (NEIC).

THE Mobile World Congress, MWC 2024, holds next week, from February 26 to 29, at the Fira Gran Via in Barcelona. The city looks forward to this great event which, at some point, was gathering over 100,000 people in four days every year, and the industry looks forward to the meeting because it provides a great opportunity for networking and deal-making. The Mobile World Congress is hosted by the GSMA – the GSM Association which draws membership from the mobile industry, over 750 operators and a...

By Eric Teniola When General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida GCFR (82) moved the seat of the central government from Lagos to Abuja on December 12, 1991, he did so to hide himself. You cant be active when you are hiding. On August 17, 1991, he commissioned the third Mainland Bridge in Lagos. The bridge is the

The book, titled "A Peep Into the Past", is part memoir and part collection of landmark articles and reportage by Folu Olamiti in his about 50 years career in journalism.

Mr. Eric Teniola started out in the Ministry of Works as a civil servant but changed career to journalism when he joined the Nigerian Tribune in 1972. He

The appeal by Kenneth Gbagi of the SDP is an offshoot of the petition he filed at the Delta State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal to challenge Governor Oborevwori's victory in the 18 March governorship election in the state.

On May 4 this year, the Edo deputy governor, Philip Shaibu lambasted the 18 local government chairmen in the state over their internally generated revenue (IGR). At a meeting with the council leaders, Shaibu said it was disappointing that they generate only N3 million (combined) every month. “Between now and the end of May, I…

The outgoing President, Muhammadu Buhari, has made sure he is leaving a huge debt profile of N80 trillion when he leaves The Villa on Monday, May 29. Well, well, well. While he will be celebrating in Daura or in Niger Republic, we shall be sorting out the mess he has created for us in last…

By popular demand, I want to republish an article I wrote that was published on 21 January, 2021. 

Of all appointments to be made by the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, none will define his presidency more than the appointment of the minister of Petroleum. There are ministers and there are ministers but the minister of Petroleum in this country is in a class of his own.