A Chinese envoy to Nigeria, Li Xuda, has advised the Federal Government to focus more on developing the creative industry to fortify Nigeria’s economy. Xuda, the Cultural Counsellor of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China, gave the advice at a zoom meeting organised by the National Council for Arts and Culture in Lagos recently….
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Air Peace airline, Mr Allen Onyema, has donated testing kits and medical items worth millions of naira to the Anambra government, as part of his contributions to the fight against the Coronavirus pandemic. The items included 1,500 pieces of hand gloves, 5,000 face masks, 900 testing kits, 240…
Eulogies have continued to pour in for Justice of the Supreme Court, Adolphus Karibi-Whyte, who died recently. The Minister of Transport Rotimi Amaechi, the Nigerian Bar Association, Senator Magnus Abe and the Nigeria Judicial Council have all weighed in with their messages of sympathy for the family of the later legal luminary. In a statement…
President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians that the lockdown measures put in place by the Federal Government to check the spread of COVID-19 would not remain longer than necessary. A statement issued by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, Garba Shehu, said President Buhari gave the assurance in his Sallah…
Health workers in Kaduna State dared Governor Nasir el-Rufai and downed tools for a 7-day warning strike. The industrial action, which took immediate effect, according to a communiqué issued to the media by the Kaduna State Healthcare Workers Unions and Associations, stemmed from issues yet to be resolved between them and the government. This was…
The coronavirus pandemic and oil market crash will together probably change the global energy industry for ever. Nigeria, Africa’s largest oil producer, should urgently and aggressively diversify its economy away from a dependence on petroleum exports. The future is bleak and the flurry of headlines about the pandemic continue to assert a new reality in…
Even as global health authorities warn of potential dangers and misinformation about an untested natural therapy, the leader of one African country is pushing a traditional tonic to try to treat coronavirus patients across the continent. The product has not been tested in line with international standards, the World Health Organization said this week. Its…
Africa’s ailing presidents and powerful elites have been known to jet out to seek treatment abroad, instead of investing in healthcare in their own countries. Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe died in a hospital in Singapore, and Cameroon’s Paul Biya regularly seeks treatment abroad. Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari was out of the country for several months in…
Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has, in recent months, shown that governing is beyond rhetorics, blowing the commonwealth, making empty promises and jumping from one country to another to “look for investors”. Leadership SCORECARD looks at how. Coronavirus is here amongst us and it is something we have all had to deal with. It…
…the Nigerian South-South Governors Under Scrutiny While the focus could easily be on the Federal Government, with the dawning of another Democracy Day celebration, Leadership SCORECARD takes a critical look at the performance of the various governors in the Southernmost part of the nation. Jubal Kanayo writes that, since the nation is yet to disentangle…
