The Federal Government is strengthening the autonomy of the National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-Formal Education (NMEC) to improve the delivery of literacy programmes across the country. The Minister of State for Education, Prof. Suwaiba Sa’id Ahmad, said…
By Michael Omotosho | When Agbadun Abdulrahman was first shown how wastewater from his fishpond could be used to grow vegetables, he was not convinced. For him, pouring water from a fishpond onto cucumber plants did not seem like something…
By Lasisi Olagunju | Chief S. L. Akintola, post-independence Premier of the Western Region, knew that when money entered politics, trust could develop wings. There is a story of how he once sent two trusted associates to some people in…
By Lasisi Olagunju | I cooked this piece’s title from Alice Urquhart Fewell’s ‘Soups for the Sick’ published in 1920. I went for it after I found William Bascom’s ‘Yoruba Cooking’ (1951) very inadequate for my lessons on what has…
By Lasisi Olagunju | This week, dust will go to dust. The very first time we met, it was to bail a common friend out of police trouble. That was in Ede in 2006, twenty years ago. We worked shoulder…
By Michael Omotosho | Another gas explosion has occurred in Bille, an island community in Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State, leaving a resident severely burned and prompting fresh calls for urgent government intervention. In a statement signed by…
By Peter Emmanuel | The Federal Government has facilitated the return of former Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma to the country after more than two years of temporary relocation to Nigeria. Koroma returned to Freetown on the instruction of…
By Peter Emmanuel | The Federal Government has backed the Lagos International Financial Centre (LIFC) as a strategic national economic priority, with plans underway for the centre’s soft launch in the first quarter of 2027. The Federal Government, Lagos State…
By Peter Emmanuel | The Lagos State Consumer Protection Agency (LASCOPA) has intensified efforts to promote food safety in Lagos State ahead of the 2026 Lagos State Food Safety Conference and Exhibition. The fourth edition of the conference is scheduled…
By Peter Emmanuel | The Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, Lagos State Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, and Civil Society Scaling-Up Nutrition in Nigeria (CS-SUNN) have intensified advocacy for improved nutrition among women and girls.…
