Gbomogbomo as metaphor
Sufuyan Ojeifo The Yoruba have a way of describing social deviance and allied deviant behaviours. While growing up in the ancient town of Owo in Ondo State in the late 60s, one or two cases of missing...
View ArticleReducing child and maternal mortality in Nigeria
Funmi Fasipe Maternal mortality is a key indicator of international development, and its reduction has long been a challenge in low-income countries, despite the existence of effective interventions. A...
View ArticleNASU strike: Time for truce
Jerome-Mario Utomi Communication, in the words of Grunig and Hunt, is the biggest tool mankind has as a potential way of overcoming difficulties. But in most cases, we have it abandoned and embrace...
View ArticleObiano and invitation of history
Chuks Iloegbunam Although the world hardly knows this, the Willie Obiano administration is currently in more exciting times than during the political barnstorming that culminated in his reelection. All...
View ArticleAPC and Oyegun’s leadership qualities
Alan U. Boyd IF you had noticed the civility with which the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Dr. Odigie-John Oyegun replied to the letter written to him and copied President...
View ArticleA case for early childhood education in Nigeria
Chika Nwuche Education is a vital investment for human and economic development and is influenced by the environment within which it exists. There, is, therefore, a need to not only maintain but...
View ArticleOsun 2018 and Aregbesola
Abiodun Komolafe ‘Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.’ – William Faulkner Reactions have continued to trail the publication of my article, entitled, ‘2018: the...
View ArticleChina-Africa cooperation and Tillerson’s advice
Charles Onunaiju Before commencing on his recent five-nation African tour, sacked U.S Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson delivered a lecture at George Mason University, Virginia on the outline of the...
View ArticleWould a younger President make a positive difference in Nigeria?
Philip Odoemena This is a question that has no definite or clear-cut answer. This is a question that can only be answered when a younger President actually occupies the highest executive office in...
View ArticleElection sequence: Overriding PMB’s veto
Sufuyan Ojeifo BY writing to both chambers of the National Assembly to express his reservations about the Electoral Act 2010 Amendment Bill, President Muhammadu Buhari has withheld his assent and cast...
View ArticleThe imperative of restructuring Nigeria
Ignatius Ngodi Nigeria is an amalgam of many ethnic groups joined together for the administrative convenience of the imperialist Britain in 1914 without the consent of the disparate groups that make up...
View ArticleImo 2019, zoning and Ezeh factor
Emma Ogbuehi It was not for nothing that literary legend, William Shakespeare, had, while stressing on the import of taking the right action at the right time, noted, “ There is a tide in the affairs...
View ArticleNigeria and China’s one belt, one road initiative
THE overwhelming economic influence of China in the world is no longer hidden. Globally, the Chinese economy ranks second while that of the United States (US) is first. The pervading Chinese influence...
View ArticleFrom Chibok to Dapchi: Who is to blame?
IGNATIUS ARINZE A few weeks ago, in the town of Dapchi in Yobe State, no fewer than 110 Nigerian girls, who are students of the Government Girls’ Science and Technical College who were in School to...
View ArticleAnambra’s strides in mechanised agriculture
Okechukwu Anarado On the day of his inauguration as Anambra State Governor in March, 2014, Chief Willie Obiano announced ‘Mechanized Agriculture, Industrialization, Trade & Commerce, and Oil &...
View ArticleVAIDS, tax defaulters and March deadline
Sijibomi Bickersteth BY 31 March, the nine-month window provided by the Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme (VAIDS) for tax defaulters to regularize their tax affairs will close. From the...
View ArticleReduction of Lagos Land Use Charge
Osebumere Odia Lagos has been in the proverbial eye of storm ever since it commenced distribution of demand notices for the payment of Land Use Charge for 2018. Many property owners expressed surprise...
View ArticleSOS to IGP Idris and Lagos CP Edgal
Recently, when the despicable activities of the Special Anti-robbery Squad (SARS) of the Lagos State Police Command became irredeemably notorious, its reprehensible conduct was halted and residents...
View ArticleRape and the Nigerian condition
Promise Adiele A first glance at the title of Alexander Pope’s poem The Rape of the Lock immediately rouses the sensibilities to his deployment of the word ‘rape’. Although the mind instantly acquires...
View ArticleRepositioning the Maritime Academy
Edet Okpo With the deep words of commendation and strong vote of confidence on the Rector of Maritime Academy of Nigeria, Commodore Duja Emmanuel Effedua, by the National Assembly and Governing...
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