Contending issues and 2019 elections
Robert Obioha; 08111813041 robobioha@yahoo.com The 2019 general elections will be like no other in the history of the country. It is one election that every eligible Nigerian voter will like to...
View ArticleOhaneze’s not so ‘New Deal’
This is the topic I had wanted to deal with last week, but I had to handle another issue, “Democracy and nationhood,” which we all know is important. Few days ago, Ohaneze organized a summit. With that...
View ArticleUtilising CBN’s N500 billion manufacturing fund
Sam Nwokoro One of the challenges identified hindering Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth is its low industrial capacity. What it simply means is that the real sector, that is those...
View ArticleThe UN and private sector partnership
Akeem Ogunlade There is a long well-documented history of cooperation between the private/business sector and the United Nations (UN), as well as other organizations affiliated to the global body. This...
View ArticleThe Igbo position on Nigeria’s restructuring
Okechukwu Anarado Perhaps, excepting the imprints of the unruly events that started happening and later snowballed into the Nigerian Civil War in the late 1960s, the portraiture of Nigeria today as a...
View ArticleRisk management in banks
A bank’s basic duty is to collect money from excess units and maximize usage by lending to individuals and corporate bodies that need it at prevailing interest rates. In doing this, banks and other...
View ArticleShall we tell the president
Oseloka H. Obaze Nigeria’s democracy has advanced another year. Yet three years into President Muhammadu Buhari’s presidency, telling him and his team how well or badly the administration has fared,...
View ArticleThe president’s Democracy Day broadcast
Jerome-Mario Utomi IT is a familiar teaching among Christians that the fall of the first man, Adam was though plotted by the serpent but brought to fruition with the help of a woman, Eve. In the same...
View ArticleThe Igbo summit and Nigeria’s future
Nwabueze Akabogu The recent summit on the restructuring of the Nigeria organized by the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo at the Ekwueme Square in the Anambra State capital Awka...
View Article2019: Don’t ignore Jega’s warning
One of the reasons Prof. Attahiru Jega, the immediate past Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was successful on the job after the initial missteps that almost derailed the...
View ArticleReligion and politics in Nigeria
Promise Adiele Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka’s play, The Trial of Brother Jero unveils the dissimulation and sanctimony that resides in the hearts of those who embrace religion as a trade. The play...
View ArticleEzeh and Imo 2019 guber poll
Emma Ogbuehi Barely eight months to the 2019 general elections, reminiscences of the 2011 and 2015 elections are gushing back in torrents. Then, as of now, the people were fed on cocktail of...
View ArticleTaking our democracy to the next level
Victoria Ngozi Ikeano Recently, we celebrated our “Democracy Day” in Nigeria, a day declared a holiday by the military authorities who handed over authority to a civilian regime after decades of...
View ArticleBuhari’s last year
President Muhammadu Buhari began the last year of his four-year presidency on May 29 last week. It may be his last year as president, or it may not, if he succeeds in winning a second term as...
View ArticleBalance and Buhari’s Democracy Day speech
Ikeogu Oke Some of the reactions that have trailed President Buhari’s Democracy Day speech did not disappoint in their cynicism, especially those posted on various social media platforms. If you could...
View ArticleOsun guber poll and zoning
Mohammed Dolapo Almost twenty years down the line of our political experience, the zoning system is all looking like it has done us little or no good. Recent happenings in low quality governance in...
View ArticleChallenges facing African males in America (2)
In this concluding piece of the two-part story, I will attempt to narrate some of the actions some Nigerians have taken to overcome the burden of American law and culture. Just like every action, there...
View ArticleThe sleazy political road to Offa
I thought I had read the most prosaic questions ever asked until last Tuesday when the Cable issued the transcript of the brief inquisition journalists held for the leader of the notorious Offa robbery...
View Article2019: Needless war of attrition in Imo
Maduka Clement With the 2019 general elections around the corner, politicians intending to run for one position or another have started consulting with their constituents and stakeholders in a bid to...
View ArticleReinterpreting restructuring and its imperatives
Charles Onunaiju No subject or issue has gained sustained attention in contemporary public discourse in Nigeria as re-structuring. Mostly considered by proponents as a re-configuring of existing...
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