Drug abuse and Nigerian youths
Jerome-Mario Utomi I remember with nostalgia how participants at a focused group discussion held recently in Lagos, bemoaned infestation of our nation by social problems perpetrated consciously and...
View ArticleThis is Nigeria
Oludayo Tade The cloud of criminality and institutional impunity which have enveloped Nigeria are bitter pills being forced down the throat of Nigerians. In a country where the so-called activists have...
View Article‘Vote buying: Indicted politicians should face ICC’
Fred Itua, Abuja The director-general of Nigeria First Project, housing advocate and co-founder of the Young Democratic Party (YDP), Nya Etuk Ezekiel, has called for the prosecution of politicians...
View ArticleClogs in the wheel of the nation’s progress
Bidwell Nsofor The promised gallant march towards achieving economic prosperity and peaceful co-existence in Nigeria by winners of the last general election will commence in May 2019. To many...
View ArticleEnhancing the nation’s reading culture
Idowu Omisore It is this writer’s desire that Nigeria, the world’s most populous black nation, becomes a reading republic where the wonders of books are appreciated. Growing up, I have read many books...
View ArticlePondering on inconclusive polls
Carl Umegboro SECTION 179(2) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended provides, “A candidate for an election to the office of a governor of a state shall be deemed to...
View ArticleTiger woods and the reward of resilience
Tayo Ogunbiyi I don’t really fancy the game of golf. It looks somehow too elitist. For me, football, boxing, basketball, wrestling, athletics and Rugby, among others, are more fascinating sports. But...
View ArticleOmotola and the Nigerian state
Promise Adiele Motola Jalade-Ekehinde is one of the most accomplished actresses in Nigeria’s movie industry, Nollywood. Her position as a United Nations World Food Program (UNWFP) ambassador exposes...
View ArticleAtiku Abubakar: A Nigerian by referendum?
Chris Akiri The raging controversy, ineptly distilled in the ever-busy brewery of the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the...
View ArticleThe needless tussle over Project MINE
The bid by the Federal Government to set up Special Economic Zones featuring projects such as the Eyimba Economic City in Abia, the Lekki-Epe Model Industrial Park and the Funtua Cotton Cluster has run...
View ArticleUnbundling the power, works & housing ministry
Paul Ojenagbon It was the biggest gamble to merge Power, Works & Housing into a humongous Ministry in 2016 following the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari. A more focused nation would never...
View ArticleNdume and the leadership of the National Assembly
Abubakar Mansur It was at the old Banquet Hall, Presidential Villa, Abuja, on December 13, 2018, during the launching of one of his support groups, ‘Together Nigeria’, that President Muhammadu Buhari...
View ArticleWho is Nigeria’s conscience?
Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye A few days ago, Monday, April 22, 2019, was the 81st birthday of Gani Fawehinmi, the late brilliant and successful lawyer and one of the very few credible human rights activists...
View ArticleAfter NYSC, what next?
Pius Muoghalu I feel highly elated to have been offered this platform to interact with you, my dear virile youths, representing the most enlightened class of Nigerian youths, upon whose shoulders the...
View ArticleThe primacy of culture in the fashion world
“IN the recent years back, I was asked to be a keynote speaker at a public school in Dallas holding its International Cultural/Fashion Carnival. At this particular school, many countries were...
View ArticleAl-makura for Senate Leader: Making a case for persons with disability
Ali Abare Since the passing into law of the Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities (Prohibition) Act, 2018, by President Muhammadu Buhari, after nine years of relentless agitations by rights...
View ArticleEzekiel Obalim: Passing of committed patriot
Nnalue Obalim Every community is blessed with worthy and very patriotic indigenes who contribute their best to their progress. A common axiom has it that unto whom much is given much is expected....
View ArticleTribute to amanze oparaugo
Chimdi Maduagwu and Victor Okoronkwo Death, be not proud though some have called thee mighty and dreadful for thou art not so. –John Donne It is the way of this world that people gather, at...
View ArticleRevitalising the education sector: Ugwuanyi’s example
Samson Ezea It was Gaun Zhong (720-645BCE) a great visionary politician in the Spring Autunm era of China, who once said that the best investment for one year is to grow grains; the best investment for...
View ArticleOnce upon a tripod
Uzor Maxim Uzoatu At independence in 1960, Nigeria was said to stand on a tripod of East, West and North. The civil war ensured that the North in alliance with the West defeated the East. The oppressed...
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