The cameras that were removed at the Lekki Toll gates were not CCTV cameras but infrared cameras designed to pick number plates of cars passing through toll gate barriers, said Babatunde Sanwo-Olu governor of Lagos state. In an interview with Arise TV, Sanwo said the decision was made by the…
The management of Primero Transport Services (PTS) Ltd., operators of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), in Lagos, has said it lost over N100 million in six days to the sustained #ENDSARS protests. Mutiu Yekeen, head of corporate communications of transportation firm disclosed this in Lagos on Wednesday. Yekeen said that…
Over 10,000 contestants will compete to become the next Nigerian music star, with coaching, judging, and recording from members of the Berklee community. Berklee will take part in the largest mobile-based music reality show in Africa, working together with multinational mobile telecommunications company MTN and multimedia mobile app and creative…
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has condemned the shooting and killing of some protesters at Lekki in Lagos on Tuesday. The NBA president, Olumide Akpata condemned the act in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. Akpata said the attention of the association was drawn to the “dastardly shooting and killing…
Nigeria’s foreign exchange ( FX) inflows into the Investors and Exporters ( I& E) window improved gradually in the third quarter ( Q3) 2020, largely driven by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) intervention, which accounted for 48.2 percent of total inflows in the quarter. A report by FSDH research…
The hand-me-down capitalism models Africa inherited from her colonial masters have failed to yield a prosperous continent despite its vast resources. Therefore, Africa is in desperate need of something different that takes into consideration its unique history, qualities, and context. Experts have mostly seen the interdependence of businesses and society…
For the past two weeks, thousands of Nigerian youths have been on the streets demanding an end to police brutality, disbandment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigerian Police and comprehensive police reforms. The protests have paralysed activities and disrupted traffic on major roads in many cities. In…
The youth are not our enemies; let us remember this before we do anything rash such as using brute force to quell their protests. They are our children that have come of age. Their flaws are our failings as parents. All over the world, the youth have broken ranks with…
In what is obviously one of the greatest moments of cold chills which any human community could have felt, the Niger-Deltans and Nigerians are, this season, reminded of man’s pitiable duel with mortality as they set to lay to final rest, Nigeria’s first Minister of Petroleum Resources Dr Mofia Akobo,…
I arrived home from external commitments just over a week ago to an extraordinary homecoming gift. It took the form of a movement — sometimes angry, sometimes entrancing, poignant, sometimes strident, certainly robust in expectations but always moving, visionary and organized. That movement demanded an end to brutality from state…