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Greasing wheels of SMEs in Oyo State through SAfER

By David Adeoye Economic experts have acknowledged that Small and Micro Enterprises (SMEs) are a major sector contributing significantly to the nation’s economy. Consequently, they play a pivotal role in poverty reduction. In Oyo State, SMEs form the backbone of the state’s economic activities and contribute to achieving sustainable development goals aimed at mitigating economic […]

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Features/Opinion Politics

Dr Umakhihe, Still Ranking Highest In Edo APC Guber Race

By Omo Odigie Not a few political observers have described Dr Ernest Afolabi Umakhihe, APC’s leading aspirant for the Edo State gubernatorial race as a greenhorn in partisan politics, having retired as a federal civil servant in January this year. How wrong they all are as events have increasingly shown, lending credence to the biblical […]

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Mass Media: The Complexities of Telling Our Stories 

By Abdulwarees Solanke Recently, I started a discourse on Telling Sustainable Development Stories. But the truth is, most mass media in Africa are at crossroads of playing the role of societal watchdog. Functioning as the fourth estate of the realm demands independence, objectivity, balance and a correct appreciation of differences between public and national interests […]

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Reminiscing on a Brother-mentor Life in Retirement

By Abdulwarees Solanke Father translates to Abu in Arabic. It’s a sign of honour to so prefix anyone with Abu, attaching one’s child to this honorific. Ummu is the woman version of this nomenclature. It’s also an honorific one can claim even before one’s child comes in the expectation that when he finally arrives, you […]

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Features/Opinion Politics

Mirroring Umakhihe, Edo APC’s Finest Bride for Governorship

By Dr Omo Odigie ‘Calm’, ‘humble’, ‘calculated’ and ‘goal-focused’ are words that are appropriate to define the personality of Dr Ernest Afolabi Umakhihe, the APC’s frontline aspirant for Edo Governorship. If he were to be in any other major political party, they would adopt his candidacy effortlessly as their consensus choice. Notwithstanding, the APC, as […]

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Nigeria: Championing Africa’s Transformational Governments

By Abdulwarees Solanke The introduction of a new price regime for Petrol in Nigeria last year has significantly altered the country’s socio-economic landscape. This is to such an extent that there is a visible reduction in number of cars on her roads now. The so-called market forces of demand and supply of petrol now dictate […]

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Features/Opinion National

For Record: Full Text Of President Tinubu’s New Year Broadcast

Below is the full text of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s New Year Broadcast to the Nation on Monday, Jan. 1, 2023, as received by TheNewsZenith. Dear Compatriots, It gives me immense joy to welcome each and every one of you – young and old- to this brand new year 2024. We must lift up our […]

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Business Features/Opinion

AMCON Overstaying Its Welcome: In Whose Interest?

By Oscar Japhet The story of Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), just like many other Federal Government agencies, is that of a beautiful concept but with poor implementation. This is resulting to loss of public confidence and damaging the economy. There is no doubt that enormous non-performing loans pose a big challenge to financial […]

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Features/Opinion Politics

Edo ‘24: A Motley Crowd of Guber Aspirants

By Celsus Ohain It’s another season of gubernatorial aspirations in Edo State and the league of aspirants is growing by the day, with each of the aspirants moving on with its own ‘Roman mob’. This is not unusual in a democracy; it is perfectly normal and accords with the tenets of the game. However, certain […]

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Tinubu’s New Nigeria, Citizens Responsibility

By Ismail Abdulaziz On assumption of office, President Bola Tinubu’s administration made its intention clear to rejig the nation’s ailing economy and make it robust enough to engender the development and growth of Nigeria. A few months into the four-year tenure of the administration, it has initiated many programmes to drive the economy towards growth. […]

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