As ‘devastating’ wildfires continue to spread across Southern California, experts claim that misinformation has also been circulating at alarming rates. Here are five key claims about the fires and the response, with factual clarifications provided by experts and officials, reports ABC NEWS: Claim: Governor Newsom’s policies are to blame for W...
Professionals under the auspices of Housing Development Advocacy Network (HDAN) have asked the Tinubu-led federal government to consider urban regeneration as one of its top priorities in 2025. Justifying the need for urban regeneration across the country, they pointed out that it would enhance livability, boost economy, reduce environmental i...
Experts in management sciences in the country have identified multiple taxation as a major challenge bedeviling businesses and manufacturing industry in the country, especially, in the face of Nigeria’s current economic reforms. Speaking at the 2024 annual public lecture of the faculty of Management Sciences of the University of Ilorin, titled...
•Tinubu President Bola Tinubu has written to the National Assembly seeking approval for a new external borrowing of $2.209 billion (N1.767 trillion), as provided for in the 2024 Appropriation Act, with experts warning against plunging the country into more debt. According to the president, the request is part of Nigeria’s budgetary financing p...
Against the backdrop of the presumed full deregulation of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), also known as petrol, which was believed to have led to the hike in the price of the product, last week, the price may go up again very soon, experts have warned. The experts predicted their warning on further depreciation of the […]
After two years of implementation of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA), experts have decried low revenues to the federation account. As a result of this, they are canvassing the review, amendment and overhauling of the PIA to guarantee maximum revenues to the federation, reports Nigerian Tribune. Leading the pack of experts, Professor of Econom...
•Festus Keyamo For the umpteenth time, experts in the Nigerian aviation industry have called on the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, to appoint a Board of Directors for the aviation agencies. This time around, Dr. Gabriel Olowo, the Chairman, Sabre Technology and President of Sabre Travel Network, in an interview ...
Kaspersky experts have conducted a large-scale study on the resistance of 193 million English passwords – comÂpromised by infostealers and available on the darknet – to brute force and smart guessing attacks. The results show that 45% of all anÂalysed passwords (87-million) could be guessed by scammers within a minute, reports Daily Independen...
•Dangote refinery Experts believe that prices of petrol and diesel may not crash significantly despite the commencement of production at the Dangote Petroleum Refinery. With the removal of subsidy on petrol in May 2023, the price per litre of petrol jumped from around N184 to over N600 depending on the location. Diesel also sells for […...
•Tinubu The federal government’s economic and monetary policies may have widened the gap between the rich and the poor in the past nine months. Also, the recent policies in the financial and energy sector have created the path to further widening of the gap in the months and probably years ahead without any sign of […]

