Author: Emporium Reporters

The grand lunch of the Integrated National Financing Framework, INFF, in Nigeria was geared towards efforts at resolving all immediate and remote gaps of sustainable development in all areas, prior to 2020-2030 Agenda that is few years away as envisaged by the SDGs. With the lunch , no doubt, the teething issues of funding from public purse , private spirited entities, multinationals among many others has become a thing of the past four years down the line and the public sector. The related social , humanitarian and climatic situations powered…

The Federal Housing Authority, FHA under the leadership of Rt Honorable Oyetunde Olubunmi Ojo policy of not abandoning projects inherited from his predecessors and in alignment with Renewed Hope Agenda, RHA of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is yielding positive results , as the Authority has kept fate with the reactivation and simultaneously commissioning multiple projects, along with initiating new ones .   Two years down the line , the Chief Executive officer and Managing Director of FHA has also changed the operational , workings and welfare narration of the agency…

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful   All praise be to Allah, who knows the hidden and the most concealed. Exalted is He, the Lord of the Earth and the high heavens, who brings laughter and tears, life and death, and riches and sufficiency. I bear witness that there is no deity worthy of worship but Allah, alone without any partner, and I testify that Muhammad is His servant and Messenger, the most faithful Prophet. May Allah exalt him, his family, his companions, and those…

Journalist arrived at the Government House with a proverb on his tongue.   “Your Excellency,” he began after the courtesies, notebook open, “in Yoruba, there is a word: Apanimáyọdà.”   The APC governor smiled faintly. “The one who kills without unsheathing a sword.”   “Exactly,” the journalist said. “A + pa + ni + má + yọ + idà—the agent who destroys without drawing blood. No blade flashes, yet the opponent falls. I remembered that word when the president said last Wednesday while breaking fast with senators that he was…

Nigerians when they cry, even the bereaved gets scared. Because they are an impossible people; everything divides them. The Iranian crisis is the latest divider. I see Trump supporters across the Middle Belt and the South. I read anger across parts of Nigeria’s Muslim North. Some who once applauded the brutal, deadly suppression of Shiites in Kaduna (even unleashing street mobs on their corpses) now rage that the arch-enemy has killed a Shiite supreme leader in Iran. Hubris sits in the house as ‘Stand Straight,’ while its servant walks the…