Addressing Lagos transport dilemma
By Rasak Musbau While in the previous decades, development policies and strategies tended to focus on physical capital (infrastructure), recent years have seen a better balance by including human...
View ArticleYakubu Dogara at 50
By Turaki Adamu Hassan “As I clock 50, what is uppermost to me, really, is not longevity, I want to see how well I have invested the 50 years that God has given me. You know, when you are alive, you...
View ArticleSecrets of successful public admin in Lagos (2)
By Akintola Benson Oke Again on the myriad of challenges that governments face to make the most of human resources, the article profoundly notes that governments face a number of challenges to make the...
View ArticleT.B. Joshua: Boosting tourism with religion
By Simeon Mpamugoh The uniqueness of Temitope Balogun Joshua’s crusades is anchored on the fact that rather the blacks having to travel to Europe, America and other developed countries to experience...
View ArticleNigeria and the imperative of happiness
By Tayo Ogunbiyi A latest World Happiness Report (WHR) that rates 155 countries on the strength of their happiness status, ranked Nigerians as the 6th happiest people in Africa and the 95th happiest in...
View ArticleBreaking the malaria cycle
By Rasak Musbau n spite of the huge amount that governments both at the Federal and the States levels spend in the provision of curative malaria drugs with the support received from the Global Fund,...
View ArticleNigerians, Christmas and generators
By Cosmas Odoemena At a Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols one of the performances was by a group of girls who did a rendition of “The twelve days of Christmas.” This time, the lyrics were adapted for...
View ArticleDid the Nigerian Senate make us proud?
By Carl Ndukwe As the year 2017 winds down, it is imperative to assess the contributions of the eighth Nigerian Senate against the backdrop of this aphorism by poet, Mary Oliver; “To pay attention,...
View ArticleObiano and good governance in Anambra
By Rowland Odegbo Since the governorship election in Anambra State was won and lost, not much in terms of the discussion still dominates public discourse. Everybody appears to have moved on. Both the...
View ArticleTrump, Jerusalem and the UN
By chris akiri ON Tuesday, December 7, 2017, the US President, Donald J. Trump, declared Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, promising to relocate the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Following...
View ArticleThe dawn is almost here
By Rauf Aregbesola It occurred to me in Ilesa during the turning of the sod of Ilesa water project on Monday December 18, 2017, that after I had prayed in the Islamic way to also pray with my favourite...
View ArticleFor a better new year
Despite counting our blessings and naming them one by one as rightly instructed in one of the soulful Christian hymnals, there is no doubt that most Nigerians passed through hell in the outgoing year....
View ArticleNew Year, better deals for Nigerians
In the next 48 hours, Nigerians would bid 2017 a final goodbye. The end of the year is always a good time to take stock of the previous year. The question that readily comes to mind is; how have we, as...
View ArticleA common-ground prayer at Christmas
By Cosmas Odoemena “Mankind is a great, an immense family. This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.”-Pope John XXIII Reza Aslan, the author of, most recently, Zealot: The Life and...
View ArticleKachikwu and Nigeria’s oil sector politics
By Rahman Musa In spite of the distractions that dogged his office in the last few weeks, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, has moved on to something more productive as...
View ArticleAn rmerging trend: APC’S sponsorship of televised falsehood against Rivers...
By Simeon Nwakaudu A few days ago, Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike visited Bolo in Ogo/Bolo Local Government Area where he initiated the construction of 30 kilometres of Internal Roads in...
View ArticleA shade of paradise: Reminiscences on late Imam Salahudeen Ariyayo Abdulazeez
By Abdulwarees Solanke On Friday 22nd December, I received an emergency call from my affectionate nephew, Abdulsabur Abdulazeez, who many people claim resembles me too much to notify me of a health...
View ArticleGeorge Weah and the future of Liberia
By Tayo ogunbiyi It is now official. 1995 World Footballer of the Year, George Weah, has been declared winner of the just concluded Liberian presidential election. It will be recalled that Weah topped...
View ArticleSenate’s investigation of MDCN assessment exam (1)
By Paul John Why has the Nigerian Senate decided to change the goalpost at the middle of the game? Why has it realised its statutory function of regulating professional occupations as contained in...
View ArticleThe controversial $1bn insurgency fund
By Adewale Kupoluyi Controversy has continued to trail the recent disclosure by the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Abdulaziz Yari, that state governors in the country had asked the Federal...
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