Nigeria stands at a point where industrial diversification has become more urgent than ever. Reviving ALSCON would stimulate downstream aluminium industries, cable manufacturing, automotive components, building materials, packaging, and trigger high-value job creation across the Niger Delta and beyond. It would also improve Nigeria’s non-oil export earnings and reposition the country within the global metals market.
A significant shift is underway in Nigeria’s solid minerals landscape, with Ekiti State emerging as a focal point. Long recognized for its intellectual capital and serene environment, the state is now attracting investors for a more tangible reason: scientifically verified deposits of bauxite, the primary ore for aluminum production. As Nigeria seeks to diversify its economy and reduce its reliance on imported raw materials, Ekiti’s emergence as a bauxite hub represents a compelling frontier for industrial investment.
ShareShareTweetPin0 SharesThe Concourse By Soney Antai, serial awards-winning columnist 2027: Of endorsements and inducements The Holy Scripture teaches that there are times and seasons for everything. It would be illogical to gainsay that truth, as it stands irrefragable. Yet, for the “hardnosed” Nigerian professional politician, politicking is eternal. Its beat goes…
The long and unfinished journey of the Aluminium Smelter Company of Nigeria (ALSCON) remains one of the most important industrial stories in the country’s recent history.
Akwa Ibom State Government, Tuesday, allocated 25 new two-bedroom bungalows to its civil servants.
Nigeria’s U-20 women’s national team, the Falconets, are set to face their Malawian counterparts on 2nd May 2026, in the first leg of the final qualifying round for the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup. The crucial encounter will take place in Abuja.
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has revealed that two candidates and a parent have been picked by the security agents over suspicion of falsely altering results of the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) released Friday.
The Senator representing Borno South, Ali Ndume, has blamed the intractable insecurity crisis in the country on the Federal Government’s lack of sufficient commitment to ending it.
Now, look at Nigeria. If that airman were ours, the government would have spent the first 48 hours distancing itself from “culpability”. While facing nothing more than ragtag, heroin-fueled terrorists, our “brass hats” would shamelessly sermonise about how these vile mass killers are “misguided children” who deserve rehabilitation and pampering.
It is a sickening irony. We watch as our finest and brightest are hunted like prey. Within just the last few months, we have seen the tragic losses of Brigadier General Musa Uba and, only days ago, Brigadier General Oseni Omoh Braimah, killed in a coordinated assault in Benisheikh. These were not just names on a payroll; they were high-ranking symbols of our national defence. And what is the state’s response to the murder of its Generals?
In America, the death of a General in the hands of terrorists would trigger a tectonic shift in the war; in Nigeria, it triggers a press release. We are served a pathetic script of “condolences,” “platitudes,” and “propaganda,” while the killers continue to post videos of their exploits, mocking the very sovereignty our fallen heroes died to protect. It breaks my heart to live under this setting, where our lives don’t matter, but those of our murderers do.
How can a state drool over the “repentance” of monsters who have slaughtered its military leadership, while the victims and their families are left with nothing but “renewed hope” slogans? The President promised security to the people of Plateau State; hours later, the bloodletting resumed. A week later, the killers struck again, emboldened by a state that seems more interested in 2027 than in the burials of 2026.
Our politicians are experts at “capturing the state” for self-preservation, but they are ghosts when the people they ‘lead’ are being led to the slaughter.
The operation led to the arrest of seven suspects, identified as Preacher Brain Ebeka, Kenneth Eziekiel, Dickson Ndueso, Abang Rowland, Esther Elijah Okon, Joy Elijah Okon, and another Esther Elijah Okon.
