Appreciating Ugwuanyi’s passion for his people
The people who conferred on the governor a Chieftaincy title of “Omereoha of Awkunanaw” expressed delight with his good governance initiatives. Louis Amoke Enugu State Governor Rt. Hon. Ifeanyi...
View ArticlePanacea for a credible 2019 election
Bidwell Nsofor Times change rapidly, but through history, campaign rhetorics of politicians are hardly translated into positive actions. What we see repeatedly is the insatiable relish with which they...
View ArticleOni vs Fayemi and APC’s prospect in Ekiti
Tunji Odewale Everyone is aware of the ongoing case between former governor Segun Oni and Governor Kayode Fayemi. Segun Oni is challenging Fayemi’s eligibility to contest the APC primary election of...
View ArticleThe culture of listening without being attentive
Jerome-Mario Utomi Experience is ‘not what happened to you; it is what you do with what happens’. And its usefulness essentially manifests in the development of the capacity to escape the guilt of the...
View Article2019, fake news and other matters
Robert Obioha As we approach the 2019 polls, many issues are fast cropping up that need to be urgently addressed. While some Nigerians have identified fake news, hate speech and security as issues that...
View ArticleOn Atiku/Obi ticket
Eziokwu Nwachukwu There is little doubt that the choice of ex-governor Peter Obi, CON, by the Turakin of Adamawa, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, GCON, has elicited unwarranted and hate commentaries from...
View ArticleIgbo, Osinbajo and 2023 presidency
Chris Nonyelum The Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo stirred the hornets’ nests when he said that voting for Buhari in the 2019 Presidential election is the only way the Yoruba race would reclaim the...
View ArticleSegun Osoba: My testamentary notes
Ebere Wabara When some parents who went through the tutelage of journalism declare that their children will not take after them in terms of occupational engagement on grounds of imaginary poverty...
View ArticleAkwa Ibom Air and regional air transportation
Evaristus Bassey The other day I saw a post on WhatsApp that had a long table filled with all kinds of alcoholic beverages and a host of black persons sitting around the table ready to drink. What was...
View ArticleStrategic planning and innovation
Akintola Benson Oke The importance and indispensability of strategy, strategic planning, and strategic management has been proved and validated over the years and, in fact, over the centuries. Yet,...
View ArticleChina, Africa and Washington’s worry
Charles Onunaiju On the 13th of December, the U.S. National Security Adviser, Mr. John Bolton at a Washington D.C. based Think Tank, Heritage foundation unveiled what he called the President Trump’s...
View ArticleIs advanced technology creating or killing jobs?
Stanley Ochuko Omadogho Are advanced technologies – “artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, virtual reality, mass 3D printing, biotechnology, chatbots, deep learning, drones, augmented...
View ArticleStemming Africa’s industrialisation gap
Benedict Elujoba Africa is a continent in dire need of growth. The continent’s GDP of $2.18 trillion in 2017 as estimated by the International Monetary Fund is less than the GDP of Germany ($3.677...
View ArticleLagos and the defining moments of 2018
Tayo Ogunbiyi For Lagos State, the past year was striking in diverse ways. For one, it was a year when the state government’s infrastructure renewal agenda continued on a better range across the...
View ArticleCan Nigeria work again?
Promise Adiele The two fiercest opposites in contemporary Nigeria are the APC and PDP, two political parties described by many as one and the same but differentiated by nomenclature. It reminds one of...
View Article2019: Before opposition disrupts peace in Enugu
Anayo Nwagbam Saying that Enugu is the most peaceful state in Nigeria today is like stating the obvious. The records, evidences and indices are there and one needs no soothsayer to confirm this. The...
View ArticleOloyede and JAMB’s finest hour
Abdulsalam Mahmud He was a Vice-Chancellor at the University of Ilorin in Kwara State for five years. But, it is now that he is the incumbent Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board...
View ArticleOnnoghen: An avoidable controversy
The supposed cabal calling the shots in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) oftentimes behaves like the proverbial dog that is either destined to, or is, intent on getting lost: it absolutely...
View ArticleOgun: The Amosun’s pact with Akinlade
Akin Ayodeji Preparations and political activities in Ogun State, South-west geo-political zone, ahead of the 2019 general election, are becoming the more engaging and interesting as the country...
View ArticleObi, statistics and development imperatives
Esin Suji Not quite long ago, a widely-broadcast debate was organized for some of Nigeria’s Vice-Presidential candidates, prominent among who were His Excellency, Professor ‘Yemi Osinbajo of the ruling...
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