Author: Gboyega Adedeji

A human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has commended the Nigerian government’s decision to confer a posthumous honour on M.K.O Abiola and declare June 12 as Democracy Day. Mr Falana in a statement on Thursday urged the government to further adopt Mr Abiola’s programme of Welfare to Poverty and respect the human rights of all Nigerians. President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday announced the shifting of Nigeria’s Democracy Day celebration from May 29 to June 12. The president also said a posthumous national award of the Grand Commander of the Federal Republic (GCFR) would be conferred on Mr Abiola, the acclaimed winner of the…

Barely eight hours after the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) reviewed the exchange rate of the Naira against the Dollar at the parallel market, it lost N50 kobo. The Nigerian currency was sold at N360.5 to the dollar at the parallel market in Lagos on Tuesday, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. While the Naira was exchanged at N360.5, the Pound Sterling and the Euro closed at N490 and N425, respectively. At the Bureau De Change Window (BDC), the Naira was sold at N360 to the dollar while the Pound Sterling and the Euro closed at N490 and N425,…

Without energy, it’s difficult for Nigeria to achieve higher productivity in many sectors of the economy, Mr. Abebe Aemro Selassie, the Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF’s ) African Department has said. Briefing newsmen over the weekend at the IMF/ World Bank Annual Meetings in Washington DC, Selassie said even the growth recorded in the agric sector could have been much better with stable energy. “Given how big the size of the Nigerian economy is and given the potential that it has including an agriculture, it is a sector that should be doing much better I think. On the…

The President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, has said that the three new Petroleum Industry Bills (PIB) being considered by the Senate will boost economic growth. He said that it will also lead to a more efficient oil sector that would be globally competitive. Mr Saraki stated this on Monday in Abuja while declaring open a 3-day public hearing on the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), organised by the Senate Joint Committee on the PIB. He said that the three bills under consideration would have tremendous impact on the economy and investment opportunities when passed into law. The bills are Petroleum…

The Zone Tech Park is seeking to turn the economy around using a pool of technological capabilities in Nigeria to address the challenges currently plaguing the economy. According to the company, work is currently in top gear at its lab in Gbagada, Lagos, in preparation for the demonstration of its offerings and the showcasing of startups and different players in the entire technology value chain which holds June 28. The park is an economic hot spot where new technologies germinate at an astounding rate and where pools of capital, expertise, and talent foster the development of new industries and new…

…you can’t use MKO Abiola’s name to win election – PDP tells Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday  declared  June 12 Nigeria’s Democracy Day and also awarded Nigeria’s highest honour, Grand Commander of the Federal Republic, GCFR,  to the late businessman Moshood Kashimawo Abiola, winner of the election held on same date in 1993. The election, adjudged to be the freest and fairest up till that year, in Nigeria’s history was  annulled by the military junta headed by Ibrahim Babangida, plunging Nigeria into a five-year political crisis. Abiola died in 1998 and General Sani Abacha, who was one of the beneficiaries…

What I intend to share with you is a profound truth that wont allow me to keep quiet. Sometime ago, Jesus said to a people around Him, “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:32). What kills a lot of people isn’t much of anything seriously outside their ignorance. The Yoruba people of South-Western Nigeria normally say, “What you don’t know is higher or older than you”; implying that ignorance keeps any people or person under faster than any other thing. According the book of Genesis 2:7; we understand how God made man,…

DANIEL’S 70 WEEKS PROPHECY AND THE “WISE MEN FROM THE EAST”. Of all the mysteries in scripture few have attracted the interest of Bible scholars more than the prophecy known as the 70 Weeks of Daniel. These prophecies were revered and studied even back in Daniel’s own lifetime in the 6th century B.C. Daniel served in the imperial courts of first the Babylonian and then the Medo-Persian world empires.We have all heard of the wise men from the east who came in search of the Christ child. It is highly likely that the Magi, a number of rulers and wise men from…

The question of the identity of the Edomites is a matter of great importance as we come into the latter days. What is the essential spiritual character of an Edomite? And as we shall discover, this is the key to the matter, not bloodlines or race. Certainly the Edomite spirit has and still does track down through families. But any person of any race can become an Edomite by an adoption of that Edomite spirit. At its essence the Edomite identity is a spiritual way of feeling, thinking, and acting. It is not just a matter of DNA or ancestral lineage…

Fela Durotoye is a great person. Nigerians can be very proud of him. He represents the young generation, which drives Nigeria towards the path to development and integration into the world community. Having received an excellent education, and getting a perfect knowledge in economics and strategic business planning, he was capable of working in any of the world’s leading business corporations. But as a patriot of his country and a true son of Nigeria, Fela decided to devote his skills to his homeland. Fela Durotoye helps Nigeria to develop strategies to improve the welfare of the country and its inhabitants.…