INTERNATIONAL health officials and environmental experts are expanding testing for lead poisoning in a remote northwestern region of Nigeria where contamination from unmonitored gold-mining practices has killed at least 163 people, most of them children.

MR. Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s president, has predicted that if Nigeria, which currently has about 20 per cent of the entire African population, could get “everything right,” its economy alone may be bigger than any of Canada, Italy or South Korea by 2050.

SMALL scale hotel operators in the Abuja are now lamenting the recent ban placed on commercial sex workers in the capital city.

ALL seem to be set for the privatization of the power sector of the economy as the National Council on Privatisation (NCP) has approved core investor sale strategy for the privatisation of the eleven distribution companies created out of Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN).