Collapsing infrastructure in South-East
By Emmanuel Onwubiko DURING the last Yuletide, when people from diverse sectors of life trooped down to their indigenous hometowns in the South-East of Nigeria from across the globe to celebrate with...
View ArticleAmosun: A visionary at 59
By Adejuwon Soyinka “Vision is the art of seeing what is Invisible to others” – Jonathan Swift Governor Ibikunle Amosun means different things to different persons. To some, he is one stubborn Owu man...
View ArticleHarnessing entertainment industry potentials
By Bolaji Odumade LAGOS has always been Nigeria’s entertainment hub. Most of the nation’s renowned entertainers literarily cut their teeth in Lagos. Many iconic and world famous Nigerian artistes such...
View ArticleBOSS: An exemplary good governance initiative
By Ayo Badmus THE Roman Emperor Pliny is often quoted to have observed that “out of Africa, there is always something new”. We can take liberties with this position and say that out of the state of...
View ArticleSouth-east Economic Summit: Igbo concerns (2)
The plenary sessions of the South East Economic and Security Summit held at Enugu on 22 December 2016 did not dispense with niceties but they went for the “brass tacks.” Prof. Barth Nnaji, the...
View ArticleNigeria on my mind
I am gradually getting back to my normal daily routine here after a hectic two-week visit to Nigeria. To say that my schedule there was hectic would be an understatement. Once I arrived Lagos, I took...
View ArticleBefore Nigerian aviation becomes a laughing stock
By Prince Ned Nwoko Democracy is said to be, amongst other things, a system of political administration that allows for clear choices, for reasoned arguments and for the oiling of the wheels of...
View ArticleGambia: Triumph of diplomacy and consensus
By Okoroma THE departure of Gambia’s leader of twenty-two years, former president, Yahya Jammeh, into exile in Guinea on January 21 is a good ending to a drama that created fear, foreboding and...
View ArticleIndeed, right time for Igbo presidency
ONE Tuesday, former President Olusegun Obasanjo made a case for the South east to also be given a chance to produce the next president of Nigeria. In canvassing this view which he said was personal to...
View ArticleZoning the presidency to South-East
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo hit the right chord this week when he observed that the South-East geo-political zone is ripe enough to produce the country’s next president. The pronouncement which...
View ArticleDealing with Nigeria’s worst enemies
By Yakubu Dogara THE year 2016 presented us with its peculiar challenges especially in the area of security and the economy. It was the year in which our dear country eventually slipped into...
View ArticleNigeria and the Trump presidency
By SKC Ogbonnia Donald John Trump is finally the president of the United States of America. Expectedly, there is palpable tension around the world. The Americans themselves have remained...
View ArticleRun, Sule Lamido, run!
By Sufuyan Ojeifo Former governor of Jigawa state, Alhaji Sule Lamido, has served notice of his intention to throw his hat in the ring for the position of Nigeria’s president in 2019. It is his right...
View ArticleFrom the Niger Delta, a rising star
By Daniel Iworiso-Markson There is the idealized notion of leadership which offers that progress is change, and that no leader ever becomes great without overthrowing extant rules and conventions in...
View ArticleDonald Trump: A lesson for Nigeria
By Aare AfeBabalola Donald Trump, who was inaugurated as the 45th President of the UnitedStates of America last Friday, is undoubtedly a very outspoken man who does not bother about how anyone...
View ArticleInterpreting the ‘change’ we voted for
By Abiodun Komolafe The world had barely settled down to the reality of Brexit when Donald Trump trounced Hillary Clinton to clinch victory in an election that would eventually shame the power of...
View ArticleFashola and the demystification of power
By Ikeogu Oke Power – as a synonym of electricity – is a mystery in Nigeria. Even the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, seems to be aware of this, as shown by one of his...
View Article‘Nigeria Airways’ awaits Buhari
UNTIL the release of the White Paper on the investigations into the activities of the roguish past chief executive officers of the defunct Nigeria Airways Limited (NAL), most Nigerians never knew that...
View ArticleThe Udom/Umana rapprochement
By Joe Iniodu Nothing has given impetus to political inclusiveness in Akwa Ibom State as the recent visit to Government House by Obong Umana O. Umana, and the planned collaboration between the State...
View ArticleWhat is Nigeria’s national culture/identity?
By ADEMOLA ORUNBON Culture is the artistic and other activity of the mind and the works produced by it. It is also a state of high development in art and thought existing in a society and represented...
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