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Porous Borders: Fear over rice smuggling heightens

Porous Borders: Fear over rice smuggling heightens

Despite the slow funding for start- ups across Africa in Q1’23, Nigerian startups were able to seal some funding deals. The quarter was unusually silent for Nigerian fintechs, while an agritech sealed the biggest deal…

NRCRI: Taking research findings off the shelf

NRCRI: Taking research findings off the shelf

Crude thinking From the provincial farm of many decades past, the National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI) has over the years evolved into a clearing- house for root crops research advancements. Over time, it has…

Lagos Raises Financial Instruments For Commodities

Lagos Raises Financial Instruments For Commodities

The Lagos State Government has signed an agreement with the Lagos Commodities and Future Exchange (LCFE) and key capital market operators to provide sustainable finance to the commodities ecosystem through the generation of tradable financial…

Sanwo-Olu’s Plans For Energy,  Impressive -Experts

Sanwo-Olu’s Plans For Energy, Impressive -Experts

Since the Federal Government gave state governments autonomy to produce their own power to ensure improved power supply in the country, Lagos is one of the states that have plans in place to change its…

Marijuana: Impacting undergraduates on campus

Marijuana: Impacting undergraduates on campus

Marijuana, popularly known as ‘weed’, ‘gbana’, Indian hemp or Cannabis Sativa, is frequently abused by undergraduates in tertiary institutions, and like most abused substances, it affects them, impacting negatively on their academic performances. A 300Level…

Victims’ families cry for justice, respite as human rights violations soar in Anambra

Victims’ families cry for justice, respite as human rights violations soar in Anambra

Recently, the conference hall of the East-End Hotels and Suites, in Awka, Anambra State, thronged with human rights fighters, lawyers, journalists, and victims of police brutality. The unusual meeting was with the stakeholders expressing concern…

Encomiums as FG okays construction of 4 major roads in Kwara

Encomiums as FG okays construction of 4 major roads in Kwara

The joy of the people of Kwara State in the North Central Zone of Nigeria knew no bounds following the recent Federal Executive Council (FEC) approvals for the construction of four major roads in the…

A Mother’s Agony: I watched helpless as my son was lynched

A Mother’s Agony: I watched helpless as my son was lynched

Critical stakeholders in Ondo State have expressed worry over the high rate at which jungle justice was being meted out on those arrested for various offences especially suspected ritualists. The jungle justice started recently with…

Anofi: From disability to renewable energy campaigner

Anofi: From disability to renewable energy campaigner

For many physically challenged persons, disability is the end of all possibilities. But this is not the case with a Lagos State University (LASU) graduate, Adebola Anofi, who believes that there is ability in disability.…

Task force warns motorists against restricted routes

Task force warns motorists against restricted routes

Chairman of the Lagos State Task Force, CSP Shola Jejeloye, has warned road users and unruly okada operators who contravene the state’s Traffic Law by plying highways and restricted routes. He gave the warning during…