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By Sam Otuonye When Bashir Adewale Adeniyi assumed office as Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, the agency was facing...

Country music icon, Dolly Parton, has died at the age of 80, according to multiple reports, including The Independent, The...

By Boma West A quiet but dangerous trade has taken root along the Keffi-Abuja highway, and it is costing young...

By Ifeatu Agbu  Conversations about the Niger Delta often revolve around what lies beneath the soil  rather than what grows from it. It is true that the Niger Delta has powered Nigeria's  economy since crude oil was discovered in commercial quantities in 1956 at Oloibiri, Bayelsa State.   Today, the narrative is changing as efforts are underway to reposition agriculture to  help secure Nigeria's future prosperity. The plan is to build an agricultural economy  that rewards investment, drives industrial  growth and positions the Niger Delta as  one of Nigeria's leading destinations for  agribusiness.   The Niger Delta possesses the natural and economic fundamentals that investors  seek. The region is endowed with fertile  land, abundant freshwater resources,  diverse ecological zones, extensive  coastline and inland waterways, and  access to major domestic and export  markets. Across the Niger Delta states lies enormous potential for crop production,  aquaculture, livestock,  agro-processing and agricultural trade.  On July 15, the Banquet Hall of the ...

Beggars have taken over different parts of the FCT, harassing residents and pedestrians for alms. While others display ailments like...

*No losers, all Ekiti are winners, he said Ekiti state governor, Biodun Oyebanji, has described his re-election for a second...

BY SAM OTUONYE Since the 1990s, different governments have promised to restructure the corporation. Several committees were formed. White papers...

Telecom infrastructure theft increased in Nigeria, with statistics showing that 656 generators and batteries were stolen from mobile network sites...

By Abdulgaffar Ahmed The grand reception of Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri of Adamawa State into the All Progressives Congress (APC)...

By Sonny Aragba-Akpore Nearly five years after the introduction of the fifth generation (5G) technology for mobile telephones in Nigeria,...