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An Egyptian court has banned ride hailing apps Uber and Careem, according to AFP news agency. The court has accepted a petition asking the government to stop licensing Uber and Careem activities in Egypt, AFP explains. Taxi drivers had complained that...

Facebook Inc said Tuesday it faced questions from the lead U.S. consumer regulator about how its users’ personal data was mined by a political consultancy hired by Donald Trump’s campaign. U.S. and European lawmakers have demanded an explanation of how...

Professor Wole Soyinka was keynote speaker at the maiden annual lecture of the Ripples Centre for Data and Investigative Journalism held in Lagos on March 15. Topic: “Rebuilding Trust in a Divided Nigeria: Can Nigeria be fixed?” The Nobel...

As the nation races toward 2019 general election, many strange things are happening daily in our political space; some heartening and others, undesirable. Particularly echoing on this wavelength is the demand for a robust political partisanship.  A move that...

The trafficking of Nigerian women mainly for prostitution in Europe has made local and international headlines. Award-winning documentaries have been released that showed the ordeal that many Nigerian prostitutes in Europe go through. Governmental and nongovernmental agencies have been...

As children in the early 1980's, growing up in a typical Nigerian community in Kafanchan, Kaduna State, yours faithfully came across this bed-time story that was relayed to us by our elders which ended up teaching us a lesson...

These days in Nigeria, some so-called leaders hardly respect the status accorded them. We have lived in a country, where people have scanty veneration for self-worth, but deeply attached to ego. And this practice has persisted for years. The Honourable...

“Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they...

"I am not upset, I am not upset!" Yet a grown man swears angrily six times because of last night's pounded yam. Cassandra in Greek legend, I recall, was condemned to know the future but to be disbelieved when she...

Agriculture plays a very important role in the life of every nation. In fact, agriculture is so important that most powerful nations on earth and throughout history have been strong agricultural nations. Those nations that did not have strong...