How big is your pocket this Christmas?
The preparations for the Yuletide celebrations, especially for children, break every ethnic and social barrier.…
Reuniting at Christmas: An age-long tradition
It is an annual ritual the Odedeyis must perform. They have never missed it in a single year. Travelling to visit…
Breaking free…
I nicked a display message off a friend’s blackberry display message deck - it was such an apt one and I thought it…
Returning to Calabar after a very long time
This is the month of Cross River State. December is the month the state tries its hardest, through its annual…
Tits-bits from the rooftop
A cool breezy evening it was a few years ago when I was invited by a close pal to one of those ‘coded’ top…
NMRC and the future of housing finance
After over two decades of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN), the National Housing Fund (NHF) and the…
Oil unions may strike January 1 to protest privatisation
Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) and National Union of Petroleum and…
Marauding touts and industry regulation
Industry players in the country are beset by motley of internal and external challenges. The age-long debilitating…
Reps to probe pipeline surveillance contract awards
The House of Representatives has mandated its committees on petroleum resources (downstream and upstream) to…
Local Fulani chicken shows exotic potential for meat,…
To provide more meat and eggs, the animal protein availability in Nigeria no doubt has to be improved. Currently,…
Garnering authoritative agric knowledge in 2014 through…
To succeed in the New Year, agro-entrepreneurs need to take stock and make projections early enough in the year.…
FG inaugurates technical sub-committee on registration…
The Federal Government has inaugurated a 12-man technical sub-committee on Naming, Registration and Release of…