Zamfara’s Governor Dauda Lawal has banned illegal mining in the state and also ordered security agents to shoot violators at sight. The Governor’s media aide, Malam Suleiman Idris, quoted Lawal as saying in Gusau that the order was part of measures to restore law and order. The governor noted that illegal mining had fuelled banditry…
The 650,000 barrels per day Dangote Refinery is yet to begin production after the August commencement date, earlier announced by the President, Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote. While delivering his speech at the official commissioning of the refinery by former President Muhammadu Buhari in May, he said, “Your excellencies, distinguished guests, our first product will be…
By: Law Mefor The Igbo term for apprenticeship is ‘Igba Boi.’ It involves learning a trade or craft under someone who is already well-established in the field and is now a master in his own right aka ‘Oga’ in local parlance. Though Igbo apprenticeship had been around for a while before the Biafra war, its…
By Law Mefor Leadership determines whether a family, society, or country succeeds or fails. Indeed, everything rises and falls on leadership. The Bola Ahmed Tinubu Presidency heralds the rise of a new era in Nigeria and unless this changes at the Supreme Court and even before then, the South-East has to reposition itself to make…
The Leadership Scorecard’s Perspectives with Uzu Okagbue – an explosive media expository, depicting the Igbo political situation in Nigeria and the way forward out of the doldrums. If there is one Igbo leader who seems to be reading the hieroglyphics of the politics of times right in Nigeria, then that Igbo man is Uzu Okagbue….
Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi has said Nigeria’s wealth and prosperity lie in harnessing and encouraging youth entrepreneurship for productivity. He however stressed that to move Nigeria from consumption to production, governments must aggressively support entrepreneurship and small businesses. Obi stated this on his twitter handle, while recounting his experience at the Owerri Business…
As we take seriously, the need for a realistically more robust economic activities cum development of Southeast Nigeria where potentials of Ndigbo could be harnessed and deployed towards the end of attaining the full economic potential possibilities and economy of scale befitting of a people whose ingenuity and can-do spirit permeate all spheres of business…
Gambia’s President Adama Barrow has suspended all foreign travel by officials, including himself, to reduce public spending, a government spokesman announced recently. Barrow signed an executive order “suspending all overseas travels by the president, the vice-president, cabinet ministers, senior government officials, civil servants and employees across all government institutions and agencies,” for the rest of…
By Tolu- July 31, 20230 BUA Group has vehemently debunked what it termed as “baseless claims of engaging in illicit forex” dealings with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) from January to March 2016. The accusations, propagated by Mr. Desmond Ike-Chima and Mr. Oliver Fejiro of ENigeria News and SecretReporters, respectively, are unfounded and lack…
The newly appointed Enugu State Commissioner for Lands and Urban Development, Engr. Prince Lawrence Ezeh, FNSE, COREN, resumed at his duty post Friday, with a promise to work assiduously to ensure that the State attains greater economic stability. The Commissioner, who arrived the ministry was ushered in by the entire staff who were visibly cheerful…
