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7 years after installation, $1.5m Akwa Ibom printing press rots away

Seven years after the purchase, installation and commissioning of a printing press worth $1.5 million, the Akwa Ibom State Government has abandoned th

Why casket business booms in Jos

For casket makers in Jos, the Plateau State capital, it is a matter of making fortunes from other people’s misfortunes.

Amidst ASUU strike, Kwara undergraduates turn ‘phone doctors’

The ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Unions of Universities (ASUU) has given some youths in the country the opportunity to be idle, which has led

Kano-Hadejia road, a booming, yet untapped haven of economic potentials

The over 200-kilometre Kano-Hadejia highway is the route to arguably the largest hub of rice and wheat farming in not only Nigeria but West Africa. Th

Scavengers: Loathed by authorities, valued by recyclers

Scavengers, known in local parlance as baban bola, are despised by the authorities and often scorned by residents because of their activities—waste pi