The other room is the most important room in the home and in any woman’s life. Every woman knows that. So, don’t mind those who are pretending to be holier than the sacred sanctuary. It’s okay to have powers in and over the other rooms, but a woman who does not know how to wield the influence derivable and derived from the other room is indeed a powerless woman. Yes, the powers of the boardroom is plenty power. But what is the power of the boardroom without the power of the bedroom? At best, the power of the boardroom is…
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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will depart Abuja on Friday, November 6, for a two-state visit to Akwa Ibom and Rivers. The President will first visit Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, to commission landmark projects completed by Governor Umo Eno’s administration and attend a political rally. Governor Eno, the host, has declared Friday a work-free day in the state to give the President a rousing reception. Among the projects President Tinubu scheduled for commissioning in Uyo are the new International Terminal Building, the International Airport Hospital, and the Ibom Aviation Village, all located at the Victor Attah International Airport. President…
Voters in Kogi State have been urged to vote for the re-election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the 2027 election in order to sustain ongoing reforms. The call was made by High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, popularly known as Tompolo, as he donated 25 vehicles to the PBAT Door-to-Door Movement in Kogi State for grassroots mobilisation. Tompolo, the Grand Patron of the Movement, announced the donation through the Managing Director of Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited, Kestin Pondi, at the inauguration of the movement’s Kogi State structure in Lokoja on Monday. Tompolo said the vehicles would support the movement’s campaign…
President/Founder, Amateur Basketball Academies, ABA, Aliyu Lucky Abubakar has called for a scientific and pragmatic approach to rediscovering the game of basketball in the North East. The former player of many teams in Nigeria made the call during training of coaches in Yola, Adamawa State. Aliyu said the training is aimed to arm Coaches so they can, in turn, reach the children, especially those that ABA may not. The Deputy Comptroller in Nigeria Customs Service decried non-challant attitudes of the stakeholders in the development of basketball in the North East. ” Basketball is fading in the North East, and we…
By Harry Awurumibe, Editor, Abuja Bureau Confederation of African Football (CAF) Head of Safety and Security, Dr. Christian Iheanyichukwu Emeruwa has described as outright falsehood, a story suggesting that he is interested in the vacant position of the General Secretary of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). A furious Emeruwa in a statement made available to Prompt News on Thursday said that he has never been interested in becoming the General Secretary of the NFF and still has no interest whatsoever in occupying that position, stating clearly that he once contested for the Presidency of the NFF but when it did…
Nigeria owes a great deal to the aid agencies working across the country. They step in where the state has struggled. They keep health facilities open in fragile areas. They support communities caught in conflict. They run programmes that would not exist without them. And beyond service delivery, they create thousands of jobs – Nigerian jobs – across health, agriculture, education, logistics, research, finance, HR, and community mobilisation. Their presence is not trivial. It is part of the country’s social and economic fabric. This contribution deserves respect. It deserves acknowledgment. Aid agencies are not the problem. The problem is the…
By Isaac Megbolugbe IntroductionThe intellectual journey of any society is often anchored by a few titanic figures whose insights outlive their physical context. Professor Akinlawon Ladipo Mabogunje, widely revered as the father of African geography, remains one such anchor. In the poignant postscript of his scholarly reflections, he asked a question that reverberates through the corridors of Nigeria’s policy ecosystem: “What singular haven of experience has the intellectual voyage of my life led me to?”This lamentation is not merely an academic afterthought. It is a prophetic and prescient warning regarding the foundational mechanics of national development. When analyzed closely, Mabogunje’s…
The Weight of a Life Well Lived By Lanre Ogundipe There are birthdays that merely add another year to a man’s life. There are others that compel society to pause, not to count the years, but to measure the influence those years have deposited upon humanity. Such occasions are less about age than about legacy; less about longevity than about significance. The eighty-seventh birthday of Aremo Olusegun Osoba belongs unmistakably to that latter category. Some lives are biographies. Others become reference books.Osoba’s life has become one of those enduring texts from which successive generations continue to draw lessons on journalism,…
By Tony Obiechina, Abuja The Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) convened its 2026 Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Tuesday, July 14, 2026, to review the activities and financial performance of the organisation for the financial year ended December 31, 2025. The hybrid meeting, held at the NESG Summit House in Lagos and virtually, brought together members of the Board of Directors, members of the Group, auditors, company secretaries, and key stakeholders. In his address at the meeting, Mr. Niyi Yusuf, Chairman of the NESG Board of Directors, extended his sincere appreciation to the board, management, and members of the think tank for…
By Arabinrin Aderonke Abuja, Nigeria — The City Boy Movement (CBM) on Monday commenced its maiden three-day National Retreat in Abuja, bringing together members of its Governing Board, National Working Committee (NWC), National Directors, State Directors and other stakeholders from the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. The retreat, which runs from Monday, July 13 to Wednesday, July 15, 2026, is aimed at strengthening the movement’s structures, reviewing its progress and preparing members for intensified grassroots mobilisation in support of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda. A major highlight of the opening ceremony was the formal swearing-in of…