Kunle Adeyeri. Knowledge is power. The online Encyclopaedia, Wikipedia, defines education in its generality as a form of learning in which the knowledge, skills, and habits of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching, training, or research. Education frequently takes place under the guidance of others.

Saving money is one of those habits that we know is good for us, but might not have developed particularly well. For an individual who does not currently save, perhaps it is because they have faced some financial hardships in the past, that they are too busy “enjoying life” or that they simply never....

Eze Onyekpere. The 2018 budget cycle seems to have revved up its engine in preparation for full acceleration. In the outgone week, the draft Medium Term Expenditure Framework 2018-2020 was reported to have been presented to the National Economic Council.

Punch Editorial Board. Poor border policing, occasioned by corruption, weak regulation and lack of capacity by border patrol officials, has turned Nigeria into a massive dumping ground for fake and substandard goods. Counterfeited goods, ranging from textiles, household equipment, furniture,....

Fidelis Soriwei and Ifeanyi Onuba. The Nigeria Labour Congress is putting in place strategies to monitor the disbursement of N243.9bn, which is the second tranche of the Paris Club loan refund to state governments. The General Secretary of the NLC, Dr.

Chukwudi Akasike and Friday Amobi, Port Harcourt. A 25-year-old trader was on Saturday night electrocuted during a torrential rain that lasted for about 10 hours in most parts of Rivers State. This is as flood from the downpour in Rivers State on Saturday and Sunday almost submerged some houses....

Olalekan Adetayo with agency report. The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Sunday assured Nigerians that the six students kidnapped from the Lagos State Model College, Igbonla-Epe, on May 25 would soon regain their freedom. According to some messages posted on Twitter by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr.

In this interview with NIKE POPOOLA, the Chairman, Federal Concerned Pensioners, Mr. David Adodo, speaks on the deplorable conditions of federal retirees and the need to urgently pay their entitlements. What is the general condition of Nigerian pensioners? It is pathetic; the same old story; it has not improved.

Ovie Okpare, Warri. No fewer than two persons were reportedly killed while several persons sustained life-threatening injuries as Uwheru and Unenurhe communities in the Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State clashed on Friday and Saturday. Our correspondent gathered that about 15....

Adelani Adepegba and Ted Odogwu. The police in Kano on Sunday arrested five suspected Boko Haram members, including two females with firearms and sets of Nigerian Air Force uniforms at Gayawa area of Ungogo Local Government Area of the state. They are Abba Mohammed,20, from Niger Republic; Usman....

Ovie Okpare, Warri. The feud between immediate past governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, and renowned political economist, Prof. Pat Utomi, on Sunday worsened as the Lagos based economist, came hard on the former governor, saying Uduaghan left a sad legacy as governor of the state.

Specifically, through its twice-a-month primary market auction of Treasury Bills and now almost daily Open Market Operations (secondary market auction), the CBN has mopped up trillions of naira in the past six months, according to top bankers who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Maureen Ihua-Maduenyi. The Nigerian Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers says it is working with Cutix Plc to combat the menace of substandard electrical cables in the Nigerian market. The Chief Executive Officer, Cutix Plc, Mr. Ifeanyi Uzodike, said during a courtesy visit by the....

Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja. The International Civil Aviation Organisation has said that the revitalised air safety laboratory of Nigeria’s Accident Investigation Bureau will be of benefit to seven countries in the West African sub-region. It said Ghana, The Gambia, Guinea, Liberia, Cape Verde and....

Olaleye Aluko, Abuja. No fewer than 43 surrendered Boko Haram terrorists have been airlifted to Gombe State by the Nigerian Army and the Nigerian Air Force to begin a de-radicalisation and rehabilitation programme, codenamed Operation Safe Corridor. This is just as troops shot dead four other....