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Lusaka - Zambia: Lusaka's Chawama Catholic Church Parish Priest Fr. Anthony Kapambwe Salangeta has said sometimes politicians can be deceitful and detached

Unemployment is a global phenomenon that is deep-seated in developing countries. Indeed, Nigeria, among other third-world States, is having more of the albatross than workable solutions.

For many decades now, Nigeria has been desperately trying to diversify its foreign exchange earnings through non-oil exports. With crude...

Oranges have some amazing benefits for your beauty, so let this fruit work its natural magic on your skin. *  Pimples: Just rubbing some orange juice onto affected areas makes the pimples dry up, leaving you with clear and blemish-free skin. You can also make a face mask by grinding orange peels and applying it […]

By Garvin Karunaratne The Sri Lankan government is finding it hard to fulfil the regulations agreed upon with the IMF in the Houses of Parliament on April 28, 2023. However, there was no other option but to agree. According to Professor Vasanta Atukorale, the increases in taxes amount to a staggering 441%. The IMF’s experts […]

Yemi Ogunbiyi writes about the last time he saw MKO Abiola in detention, and an Egba Chief was pressurising him to give up his mandate.

Dr Yemi Ogunbiyi tells in his riveting autobiography The Road Never Forgets how he overcame tribulations to attain successes in life.

Here we meet Yemi Ogunbiyi who did not spend his childhood bathed in wealth and privilege but who, through a combination of fate and grit, has grown to become a decent, compassionate man with a shrewd business sense; a charming liberal humanist endowed with a brilliant organisational mind; a wise and gracious cosmopolitan with polish…

I trace that era of great economic resurgence back in the day to the presence in South-West Nigeria of commodity boards.

‘In between lectures, we angrily discuss the rising cost of food, soap, toothpaste, transport.’ An extract from Small by Small by Ike Anya.