When Nigeria became a sovereign nation in1960, expectations were high not only in Africa but in the world at large. The reasons for this was the size of the new nation and its considerable natural ...

The keynote address delivered by Dr Akinwumi Adesina, the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), at the 20th anniversary dinner of Chapel Hill Denham, Lagos, must have stirred the hornet's ...

On the morning of October 1, 1960, Nigeria attained independence from the British colonial powers. Since then, October 1 is marked as a national day to remember the country's attainment of sovereignty ...

The Presidency has dismissed recent remarks by outgoing African Development Bank (AfDB) President, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, suggesting that Nigerians are worse off today than they were at independence in ...

Reno Omokri has posted on his Twitter page, the Spectator Index of September 2017, to show Nigeria has diminished in all sectors since Independence, compared to Singapore. “In 1960 when we gained ...

One of the voids left behind in the digital age of photography is the excitement and mystery of picking up developed prints from a roll of film. Imagine the thrill Senongo Akpem felt when he and his ...

The Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise, CPPE, has revealed that Nigeria has experienced eight recessions since 1960, when the country became independent, to date. The Chief Executive ...

An economist and university don, Prof Godwin Oyedokun, says severe currency devaluation and drastic economic changes are the reasons the naira depreciated to N1,475.35 per dollar, down from N0.71 in ...