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By Festus Adedayo A few weeks ago, an outburst of then aspirant for Nigeria’s presidential office, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, marked its third anniversary. On June 2, 2022, in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, Tinubu bit the bullet in what has now become an epochal ad-lib commentary. In a retort to attempts to deny him the…
August 24, 2025
BY OLUFEMI SONEYE The United States has recently implemented a sweeping immigration policy requiring nearly all visa applicants to disclose their social media handles and digital histories. Framed as a tool to bolster national security, counter terrorism, and curb cybercrime, the measure may appear reasonable on paper. But for Nigerians and many others from countries…
August 24, 2025
“Chieftaincy titles, the crux of the current face-off between the Ooni and Alaafin, have these days become so debased they are bestowed on all sorts; it profiteth Yorubaland nothing” These days, it is like our leaders prefer to leave substance and chase shadows! These are deliberate distractions from the real issues that should bother us.…
August 24, 2025
By Funke Egbemode What is going on here? Am I the only one seeing it? Why are our brilliant young women not finding husbands or is it the husbands that cannot find them? Single women who are doctors, engineers, senior bank executives, pilots, business owners (those ones are many), hardworking, beautiful, ready-to-mingle, mingling and coming…
August 23, 2025
The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States fell this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday. The total rig count in the US slipped to 538, according to Baker Hughes, down 47 from this same time last year. The rig count is still…
August 23, 2025
Asia’s liquefied natural gas imports are set to reach the second-highest on record in October, but even these elevated volumes will not be near enough to meet the pledges of North Asian countries to buy American LNG and energy under the trade deals. Asia is set to import as much as 3.61 million tons of…
August 21, 2025
Crude oil inventories in the United States decreased by 6 million barrels during the week ending August 15, after growing by 3 million barrels in the week prior, according to new data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released on Wednesday. The build brings commercial stockpiles to 420.7 million barrels according to government data,…
August 20, 2025
Key Takeaways China imported 11.1 million barrels of crude oil per day in 2024, with Russia standing as its largest supplier of oil. Meanwhile, the U.S. imported 6.6 million barrels per day (mb/d), with Canada accounting for 62% of the total. In 2024, global oil trade patterns continued to evolve, shaped by geopolitics and changing…
August 20, 2025
BY OWEI LAKEMFA The Nigerian-born, American Director General of the World Trade Organisation, WTO, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, visited her old country on August 14, 2025. A consummate politician, she told the Bola Tinubu administration what it loves to hear: that it is doing quite well. She told the suffering population what they know: that they…
August 19, 2025
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By Festus Adedayo A few weeks ago, an outburst of then aspirant for Nigeria’s presidential office, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, marked its third anniversary. On June 2, 2022, in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, Tinubu bit the bullet in what has now become an epochal ad-lib commentary. In a retort to attempts to deny him the…
August 24, 2025
BY OLUFEMI SONEYE The United States has recently implemented a sweeping immigration policy requiring nearly all visa applicants to disclose their social media handles and digital histories. Framed as a tool to bolster national security, counter terrorism, and curb cybercrime, the measure may appear reasonable on paper. But for Nigerians and many others from countries…
August 24, 2025
“Chieftaincy titles, the crux of the current face-off between the Ooni and Alaafin, have these days become so debased they are bestowed on all sorts; it profiteth Yorubaland nothing” These days, it is like our leaders prefer to leave substance and chase shadows! These are deliberate distractions from the real issues that should bother us.…
August 24, 2025
By Funke Egbemode What is going on here? Am I the only one seeing it? Why are our brilliant young women not finding husbands or is it the husbands that cannot find them? Single women who are doctors, engineers, senior bank executives, pilots, business owners (those ones are many), hardworking, beautiful, ready-to-mingle, mingling and coming…
August 23, 2025
The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States fell this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday. The total rig count in the US slipped to 538, according to Baker Hughes, down 47 from this same time last year. The rig count is still…
August 23, 2025
Asia’s liquefied natural gas imports are set to reach the second-highest on record in October, but even these elevated volumes will not be near enough to meet the pledges of North Asian countries to buy American LNG and energy under the trade deals. Asia is set to import as much as 3.61 million tons of…
August 21, 2025
Crude oil inventories in the United States decreased by 6 million barrels during the week ending August 15, after growing by 3 million barrels in the week prior, according to new data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released on Wednesday. The build brings commercial stockpiles to 420.7 million barrels according to government data,…
August 20, 2025
Key Takeaways China imported 11.1 million barrels of crude oil per day in 2024, with Russia standing as its largest supplier of oil. Meanwhile, the U.S. imported 6.6 million barrels per day (mb/d), with Canada accounting for 62% of the total. In 2024, global oil trade patterns continued to evolve, shaped by geopolitics and changing…
August 20, 2025
BY OWEI LAKEMFA The Nigerian-born, American Director General of the World Trade Organisation, WTO, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, visited her old country on August 14, 2025. A consummate politician, she told the Bola Tinubu administration what it loves to hear: that it is doing quite well. She told the suffering population what they know: that they…
August 19, 2025
