My personal journey to weight loss revisited (1)
I wrote about my rollercoaster weight loss journey a few years ago and would like to update my readers the status of my weight and health. Reflecting and agreeing with Valerie Bertinelli when she said,...
View ArticleEl-Zakzak Shi’ites and the looming danger
Hayatudeen Sidi Nigerians must take advantage of history to have a good grasp of issues of national security concerns, such as the escalating threats of insurgency by Ibrahim El-zakzaky led Shiite...
View ArticleStatistician General and customised statistics
Victor C. Ariole […] It is my contention, that if policy makers had paid closer attention to data even as far back as 2014, perhaps more could have been done to forestall recession. – Dr. Yemi Kale...
View ArticleThe INEC server controversy
Olayiwola .F. Babatunde One profound secret that INEC has kept away from Nigerian’s regarding its Election Server is the secret of the use of Tablets like ipad called Z-Pad which is the brand name of...
View ArticleStrengthening security service
Cornelius Agada In a re-assuring strategic response to the felt need for a futuristic approach to redressing the human resource and operational challenges affecting the intelligence, national security...
View ArticleBuhari’s new cabinet: Matters arising
Carl Umegboro President Muhammadu Buhari recently unveiled the identities of his new cabinet without delays as witnessed in his previous tenure. As usual, the action met mixed reactions. Whilst a...
View ArticleIs CBN’s milk policy a catch?
Cosmas Odoemena Just the other day, the Central Bank of Nigeria said access of foreign exchange to import milk would be restricted and the reason being that Nigeria had “abundant resources” to produce...
View ArticleMilliken Hill aesthetics and Nsukka serenity
Travelling in Nigeria these days can be hazardous and even frightening. Whether the journey is done by road or air and even rail or water, the danger is present in all these modes of transportation in...
View ArticleBuhari yearned to lead but never prepared for leadership
Omoshola Deji Nigeria’s 2019 presidential election ended long ago, but the contest is ongoing at the tribunal. Politics is a mean game – and politicians devise every means to win. That ex-Vice...
View ArticleOrji Kalu as Senate Chief Whip: From A to Z (1)
It is unprecedented in the history of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In 2014, the National Working Committee (NWC) of the ruling party granted one of its founding members/foundational financiers...
View ArticleState anti-corruption commission: The Kano model
Bishir Auda Sabuwar It is a general consensus that there is no way a country can experience genuine development, if corruption is left to fester or is treated with kid’s glove. I am yet to see a...
View ArticleLagos and the greenery crusade
Tayo Ogunbiyi ACCORDING to climate experts, human-induced global deforestation is responsible for 18-25% of global climate change. The United Nations, World Bank and other leading non-governmental...
View ArticleShi’ites: Another Boko Haram in the making?
Ademola Orunbon The incessant deadly clashes between government troops, police force and Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), known as Shi’ite Muslim have raised fears that another conflict is about to...
View ArticleBuhari and the successor challenge
For a government, and a President, confronted with uncommon challenges of a more immediate sort, caught between threats of unprecedented insecurity/ Revolution Now, and Change, it’s not unkind to say...
View ArticleThe heritage of boosting business
Uzor Maxim Uzoatu The growth of business in Nigeria is fast entering into strategic connections, locally and internationally. The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Heritage Bank Limited,...
View ArticleSoutheast governors’ encomiums on Ugwuanyi
Mary Ibebude Recently, the Southeast Governors Forum rose from a closed door meeting in Enugu that lasted for several hours and issued a very strong-worded communiqué on issues affecting the country...
View ArticleDeadly feud between two federal agencies
Kayode Ojewale It does appear the government at the centre is playing the ostrich over its continued silence on the controversy trailing the back and forth arguments between two of its agencies on the...
View ArticleNGIGE: The return of a giant
UGONNIA ANYADUBALU Dr. Chris Nwabueze Ngige, a medical doctor, politician, former Governor of Anambra State, Senator and Minister of Federal Republic of Nigeria, a humanist, philanthropist, political...
View ArticleNigeria’s judiciary at crossroads
Olumide Ojini The presidential election of 2019 has come and, perhaps, gone. To some, it might have been confined to the dustbin of history but definitely not the throwbacks on the conscience of a...
View ArticleThe caging of the women
Banji Ojewale There is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women—Kofi Annan (1938-2018) former United Nations Secretary-General. Nigeria is not picking durable lessons from...
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