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  “A guild is a society of gatekeepers; to you belongs the enormous task of defining the ethos, mores and ethics of your profession; upon you is the burden of setting the acceptable rules, conventions and practices of the profession. “This burden is made greater by a society where corruption...

  I am happy to welcome the distinguished leaders of goodwill who have led the PDP Presidential Candidate and my former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, to my humble abode and I welcome the Presidential Candidate himself. Let me start by congratulating President-to-be, Atiku Abubakar, for his success at the recent PDP...

  - N-Power with half a million beneficiaries largest pre-tertiary jobs programme in Africa - Trader Moni collateral-free loans to reach 2m petty traders by year end - Solar power installed in key markets in several states already REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCE PROF. YEMI OSINBAJO, SAN AT THE 9TH PRESIDENTIAL...

Federal Commissioner for Works and Housing in the first republic and former pro-chancellor and chairman governing council of the University of Agriculture, Makurdi , Alhaji Lateef Olufemi Okunnu, SAN, in this interview, x-rays the Nigerian state 58 years after independence and says only a return to the 1963 constitution will...

  By Wole Tokede Come September 22, 2018, the good people of Osun State will have to decide on rescuing the state from its parlous situation imposed on it by the administration of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola as they are expected to rise above the lure of the enticing aroma of...

By Amos Oladele As the clock ticks, the governorship election in Osun State inches closer. In fact, the election is right at our doorstep. At the election, a successor to Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, the two-term governor of the State whose final tenure is ending soon, would be elected. And, since...

  By Henry Boyo In an address to Pressmen, about 5 years ago, in Abuja, Lamido Sanusi, who was then CBN Governor (2009-2014), unexpectedly, decried the prevailing monetary framework which facilitated banks’ access to make free money from their portfolio of government funds. Although this writer has, since 2004 consistently...

  Retired Justice Olamide Oloyede, the deputy governorship candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in the September 22 gubernatorial poll in Osun, speaks with OLUWOLE IGE on what motivated her venture into politics, the agenda of the party for the state’s development, among other sundry issues. Excerpts   What...

  I wish to inform Nigerians that, after extensive consultations, I have decided to take my leave of the All Progressives Congress (APC).   This is not a decision that I have made lightly. If anything at all, I have tarried for so long and did all that was humanly...

  Global tech firm announces free internet access following Silicon Valley visit Democratization of technology is quantum leap for Africa’s development   “This Century is Africa’s Century. Why? Because Africa will, for good or ill, play the defining role in global development.  Africa’s fortunes will matter across all the trends...