Ayade and the resonances of industrialisation
Linus Obogo His herald in 2015 as governor of Cross River State was akin to the ascension of the biblical redeemer, as foretold by John the Baptist. He would make every crooked path straight. Others...
View ArticleObasanjo, Soyinka, others should ‘enjoy’ their Buhari quietly
Lere Olayinka I can excuse 40 year old Nigerians and below for voting Buhari in 2015 because they never really experienced a General Buhari between 1984 and 1985. Unlike the likes of Obasanjo and Prof...
View ArticleInsecurity and a drifting nation
There is indeed no doubt that Nigeria’s security situation is fast deteriorating with each passing day. All Nigerians feel the danger ahead. The deaf and the blind are aware of the scary situation that...
View ArticleCellphones: more harm than good?
Kayode Ojewale Arguably, mobile phones have become a necessity to mankind. In today’s technological world, it may be hard to imagine life without mobile phones. While the device comes with innumerable...
View ArticleThe rumble over RUGA
Adeze Ojukwu The vitriolic public outrage over Federal Government’s desperate moves to settle nomadic pastoralists, across the country, is a reflection of the Nigeria’s fragility and volatility....
View ArticleWhat then shall we eat and drink?
Bob Majirioghene Etemiku Our food is what is responsible for the efficient functioning of our physiology and mental faculties. Of course, we don’t live to eat but eat to live. We are what we eat and do...
View ArticleHistory and national development
Jerome-Mario Utomi From the excitement elicited so far, it will not be an overstatement to characterize as historic; the recent statement by Mr. Sonny Echono, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of...
View ArticleImo State (2011-2019): Worse than Abia (2)
As I round off this two-part article, I need to underscore four germane observations emanating from last week’s introduction. First, the befitting headline for this intervention should have been “How...
View ArticleAgriculture, vocational education and school curriculum
Daniel Ighakpe Agriculture was once the mainstay of the Nigerian economy. Before the discovery of oil, commercial farms blossomed and farming was seen and practiced as the main occupation. The North...
View ArticleHow mass learning can save Nigeria
Francis Eniterai Ogbimi Our 33-year curiosity-driven research revealed that only mass learning – education, training, employment and research (ETER), for all Nigerians, can save the Nigeria of today....
View ArticleSecurity not beyond food and shelter
Victor C. Ariole Your brain consistently remembers only two things about an event; the emotional peak and the end… (Random Facts) In Cameroon they feel good about the government. It was reported...
View ArticleBuni’s bid to surpass expectations
Abdullahi Bego Governor Mai Mala Buni’s speech at the opening of the two-day Education Summit, organised recently to think out-of-the-box and suggest solutions to some of the challenges in Yobe’s...
View ArticleMaking Lagos work again
Carl Umegboro The centre of excellence, Lagos in southwest arguably did backslid from its position in 2015 where the then governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) impressively left the state. Without a...
View ArticleDarkening cloud over the Gulf: Iran and the West
Charles Onunaiju Recently, Iran paratroopers of its elite Revolutionary Guard made a spectacular dash to a British flagged ship in the busy Strait of Hormuz, arresting and escorting the ship to its...
View ArticleManaging insecurity in Nigeria
Olukoya Isaac A. As Nigerians, we feel very insecure in our own country. Terrorism, inflation, corruption, injustice – all these words can be clearly seen, heard on our TV screen and newspaper...
View ArticleBuhari’s June 12 speech versus the realities of democracy
Adetokunbo Pearse The claim in his June 12th speech that he had fulfilled the promise made in his first term to secure the nation, enhance the economy and eradicate corruption is truly preposterous....
View ArticleX-raying Obasanjo’s open letter to Buhari
Jerome-Mario Utomi The Supreme Court is not the highest Court in our land. Our highest court is the court of public opinion which meets every hour.—Seitel (1987). It is a common knowledge that one of...
View ArticleNigeria: No more wars
Promise Adiele Sunny Okosun, the Ozzidi crooner, do you remember him? Shortly before the last general elections, I wrote an essay with the title “Which Way Nigeria” published in this column. In my...
View ArticleUNILAG crisis: The devil is in the detail
Banji Ojewale …if gold rust, what then will iron do? For if a priest be foul, no wonder common man should rust —Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400) English poet and author. Evicted from Heaven for pride...
View ArticleTrajectory of the ministerial list
Victoria Ngozi Ikeano Over four months after he was declared winner of this year’s presidential election by the chief returning officer, Professor Mahmoud Yakubu, chairman of the independent...
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