Imperative of regionalism and restructuring Nigeria
Ademola Orunbon Regionalism has come back to prominence, as the political, economic, cultural and social meaning of space is changing in contemporary Europe. In some ways, politics, economics and...
View ArticleCelebrating love in a season of death
This is perhaps one Easter in recent memory that Christians the world over will celebrate indoors. It is also one Easter that will be celebrated without much merrymaking and other mundane things some...
View ArticleDisconnecting the 5G from COVID-19 pandemic
Obaka Abel Inabo One would have dismissed the controversy about 5G technology and the bizarre connection with coronavirus being vociferously pursued by some people as ignorant outbursts caused by the...
View ArticleNDDC: Why Buhari should dissolve IMC
Damian Chukwukelu The reaction of the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to the allegations of fraud leveled at it by some Niger Delta groups in the...
View ArticleRedirecting the Senate on generator ban
Asopuru Okemgbo You cannot pull down your house and stay in the rains because you hope to build a better house. That’s what Senator Bima Muhammad Enagi’s (Niger South Senatorial District) bill on “the...
View ArticleNow, life is a beast
The harsh reaction by the Presidency to Prof. Wole Soyinka’s innocuous perspectives on President Muhammadu Buhari’s broadcast on COVID-19 and the concomitant lockdown of Abuja, Lagos and Ogun is,...
View ArticleThe need for comprehensive economic reforms
Patrick Okigbo There is no better time for the Nigerian government to bite the bullet and embark on a comprehensive economic reforms programme than this opportunity provided by the Covid-19 pandemic....
View ArticleDid they know it was Easter?
Most Christians all over the world have just marked the Easter. It was celebrated in subdued manner, devoid of the previous pomp and ceremony. But make no mistake about it : It is a season that marks...
View ArticleIs COVID-19 male or female?
Promise Adiele Gender constitutes a corpus in academic discourse, especially in the humanities. For inexplicable reasons, women become very emotional and irritable whenever the topic is raised...
View ArticleOshiomhole: Recurrent issue in Edo politics
Aiyevbekpen John Osakue When a man emerges from the dark valleys of his humble birth and near state of hopelessness to build for himself an ecosystem of superlative achievements, he would have...
View ArticleHealthcare workers in medical war zones
Cosmas Odoemena The other day, the CNN showed the intensive care unit of the University Hospital Medical Centre in New York. The ICU is at capacity, patient beds line the hallways of the emergency...
View ArticleCOVID-19 and Nigeria’s ‘enugbe economy’
Oludayo Tade Unless we understand the sociology of interconnected livelihoods, we cannot understand the turn of event as the worst hit class react to the strains of COVID-19 through violent...
View ArticleTaking advantage of the pandemic
Ken Etete The year 2020 has been described with several adjectives, notable amongst several; “a horror movie” As the year unfolds and rightly so considering the series and sequence of events, the...
View ArticleEvaluating SEC’s Market Development Initiatives
By Joshua Afolabi The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been providing the regulatory radar in the nation’s capital market through steps that have helped to develop and deepen the market. An...
View ArticleCOVID, bad leadership and corruption
Okechukwu Udeagwu The world is currently afflicted with a health pandemic – Coronavirus – which the World Health Organisation, WHO, has codenamed Covid-19. The figure in the name acknowledges the year...
View ArticleLockdown extension: Using BVN for social intervention programme
Carl Umegboro The extension of the lockdown for another 2 weeks by President Muhammadu Buhari is not a bad idea on account that other counties affected by the dreadful coronavirus contagion;codenamed...
View ArticleCOVID-19 & other issues: Multifarious forms of corruption
If President Muhammadu Buhari is committed to addressing the monster of corruption, the fight must begin from 1999 till date. It is not enough to tell Nigerians that former military Head of State, Gen....
View ArticleEntrepreneurial Vocation in Service of God and Humanity: Birthday Tribute to...
Fr George Adimike Living the sacred vocation of business as a service forms part of the ramifications of God’s trusteeship of creation to man. Stewardship of creation flowers in entrepreneurship. In...
View ArticleAfrica exposed by Covid-19
Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka The Covid-19 pandemic is clearly a crisis. This particular crisis has resulted in cessation of economic activities that will lead to a significant decline in GDP, an...
View ArticleCOVID-19 pandemic and the global village
Chinedu Bosah Capitalism is simply money-making for a few at the expense of the vast majority on a global scale.The productive and service capacity of humanity is enough to resolve all problems in...
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