Author: Emporium Reporters

For decades, Nigeria’s vast deposits of gold, lithium, tin, limestone, coal, tantalite and several other strategic minerals have remained one of the country’s greatest but least protected economic assets. Despite their immense potential to generate revenue, create jobs and stimulate industrial growth, these resources were increasingly exploited by illegal miners and criminal syndicates, resulting in huge revenue losses, environmental degradation, insecurity and declining investor confidence. The consequences of illegal mining extended beyond the theft of mineral resources. It weakened government revenue, encouraged organised crime, polluted rivers, destroyed farmlands, threatened the…

The words, “hunger” and “Onanuga” are almost homophones; words of similar sounds. I am goaded on by the Yoruba epistemology which counsels that likes should be compared with likes. As tortoise’s head safely compares with the big toe, so does a groundnut shell compares with the cocoon of the world’s tiniest rat Yoruba call the eliri. But comparison is not my bother here. My interest is the decimation of the cries of the afflicted by the powers that promised hope, a people ensconced in the barn in Abuja.   Presidential…

By Dr. Afolabi Olajuwon     Worshippers at Foursquare Gospel Church, Wuse District Headquarters, Abuja, were urged to cultivate unwavering faith in God as the surest response to an increasingly uncertain and morally complex world during the church’s Sunday worship service on June 28, 2026.   The service opened with a vibrant and spirit-filled session of praise and worship led by the church choir. The uplifting songs created an atmosphere of deep reverence and spiritual expectation, preparing the congregation for an insightful exposition of God’s Word.     Delivering the…

Kudos have rightly gone the way of President Bola Tinubu recently. It is gladsome that a presidency which, for 37 months of its shelf life, was notorious for its snail-speed throttle on the state police idea, is suddenly putting on track spikes. The way Tinubu is sprinting on the state police bill today, he may well be garlanded, alongside Noah Lyles and Sabastian Sawe — the American world’s fastest short-distance sprinter, and the Kenyan globe’s fastest long-distance runner, respectively. Senate President Godswill Akpabio has also suddenly found a similar rhythm.…