Changing yearly medical exam for longer life
Last week, I wrote a piece about the need for a yearly comprehensive medical examination, particularly among the aging Nigerians, whose culture of such annual routine runs counter to the prevailing one...
View ArticlePatriotism and the 2017 budget
By Ikeogu Oke President Muhammadu Buhari presented the 2017 budget to a joint session of the National Assembly on December 14. It should be of interest to Nigerians, beyond the fiscal details of the...
View ArticleSetting a new agenda for Edo
By John Mayaki Between December 8 and 10, the Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, gathered stakeholders such as administrators, permanent secretaries, traditional rulers, religious leaders and...
View ArticleChristmas: Not only a rice affair
THE way Nigerians are scrambling for rice, you will think that Christmas, the annual Christian ritual of celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, is only about rice. It is also not about drinking,...
View ArticleCelebrating Christmas with tears
By ADEZE OJUKWU IN a few hours, the world will celebrate another Christmas. For many Nigerians, this year’s Christmas will be marked with tears. Truth be told, this year’s Christmas is anything but...
View ArticleLeadership undercurrents in South-West
SOON and very soon, the present administration of President Mohammadu Buhari would be two years old. The two years is the midterm of his four-year mandate. As Nigerians, we have all seen how the past...
View ArticleICPC and the war against corruption
By Folu Olamiti THE current prosecution of some judges, for alleged corrupt practices and the ongoing trial of some politicians and public functionaries in the immediate past administration on...
View ArticleDogara’s 49 remarkable years
By Turaki A. Hassan FORTY nine years ago today, a humble child was born in the backwaters of what is today North-Eastern Nigeria. That child, against all odds, is today one of Nigeria’s shianning...
View ArticleLagos, Kebbi Lake rice
By Tayo Ogunbiyi A few months back, the Lagos and Kebbi State Governments began a partnership aimed at enhancing food security as well as boosting agro-economic activities in the two states....
View ArticleFor Tunji Oseni, others
AT this time of the year, always, I remember friends of mine who had gone ahead of those of us still alive by God’s grace. The list is becoming almost interminable as I begin to lose count,...
View ArticleThe Senate and Ibrahim Magu
By CHARLES ONUNAIJU A legend has it that the former Egyptian leader and the most militant exponent of Pan-Arabism, Gamel Abdel Nasser was an avid listener to the British Broadcasting Corperation, BBC....
View ArticleAbiding lessons of US election
By Jossy Nkwocha THE emergence of Mr Donald John Trump as the President-elect of the United States, against all odds, has left many people shocked. This piece identifies six abiding lessons that...
View ArticleWhy we celebrate Christmas
By ADEMOLA ORUNBON This year’s Christmas is the 2016th edition since the first Christmas heralded the birth of Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. The stage for that was set in Bethlehem, a small...
View ArticleEconomy still Buhari’s Achilles heel
WHAT A YEAR it has been for Nigerians, and indeed, for Muhammadu Buhari presidency! At the start of his presidency Buhari enjoyed a reputation as a man of high integrity. Probably his reputation is...
View ArticleA different kind of Christmas
CHRISTMAS, the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, rolled by last Sunday, without much of the glamour and excitement that had for ages attended the annual celebration. In what appeared to be a...
View ArticleThe war against terrorism
By MICHAEL JEGEDE AFTER his triumphant outing in the poll last year, President Muhammadu Buhari reiterated his campaign promise to adopt a different approach, in tackling the Boko Haram insurgency,...
View ArticleFighting corruption in the judiciary
By EMMANUEL ONWUBIKO LAST month’s Presidential elections in the United States of America brought out the good, the bad and the ugly about American’s democracy. The two leading candidates, Mrs. Hilary...
View ArticleRebuilding the ravaged North-East schools
By Prof Matawalli A. Geidam As the war against the deadly Boko Haram insurgency approaches its end, expectations from the people traumatised by this irrational war are now sharply focused, among...
View ArticleStill on Rivers rerun elections
By Carl Umegboro THE Rivers State rerun legislative elections held on December 10 have come and gone. Winners and losers have also emerged. In line with democratic norms, as results were declared by...
View ArticleThe fall of Sambisa forest
By Gbemiga Olakunle Two days before Christmas, the final stronghold of the Boko-Haram terrorists named Camp- Zero tucked inside the dreaded Sambisa Forest in Borno State, finally fell to the heavy...
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