Getting youths to work: Tech-U example
Femi Babatunde Young people world over are reputed as key drivers of societal transformation. Owing to their enormous agility, courage and creativity, they are invaluable stakeholders in development....
View ArticleNew life, new meaning for June 12
Victoria Ngozi Ikeano The self-acclaimed seers, visionaries or whatever name they like to call themselves, those who claim to be able to know what tomorrow holds in store for us and the nation did not...
View ArticleJune 12, the media and democracy
Rasak Musbau History tangles the past with the present in webs of fact. Its practice is to treat things that exist here and now as though they concerned the past and to use them in new compositions...
View ArticleTambuwal’s exemplary leadership
Anselm Okolo Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto State and former Speaker of the House of Representatives, an avid believer in the integrity of hard work and merit in public service, has lived a...
View ArticleJune 12 and other matters
Robert Obioha; 08111813041; robobioha@yahoo.com President Muhammadu Buhari scored a high point with the recent honour bestowed on the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, Chief...
View ArticleRivers state: Still Nigeria’s emerging economic success story
Simeon Nwakaudu On September 18, 2016, I wrote a piece which I titled, “Rivers State : Nigeria’s Emerging Success Story”. That piece was on the premise of very significant efforts by the Rivers State...
View ArticleJune 12, Buhari and Trump
There is something about June 12 beyond being just a date. It has come to represent curious but pleasant ironies. June 12, 1993 was a date of national irony in Nigeria. A people thought to be...
View ArticleAdebayo Adedeji and Africa’s ideology of development
Tunji Olaopa The world recently lost a colossal intellectual figure. The name of Professor Adebayo Adedeji resounds in critical places across the globe where issues of regionalism, economic ideologies,...
View ArticleAnambra: Motorcycle restriction, not ban
Ifeanyi Afuba Sometime in 1985, I read a short story by the novelist and critic Obii Nwachukwu – Agbada titled Grandfather’s Motorcycle. After much longing, an old man finally bought and was savouring...
View ArticleThe exit of Ras Kimono
Chiedu Uche Okoye According to Webster’s New Encyclopedic Dictionary, “Music is the art of combining tones so that they’re pleasing, expressive or intelligible.” And Webster’s Comprehensive Dictionary...
View ArticleWorld Cup: A spectacle of waste?
Tayo Ogunbiyi Former Catholic pontiff, Pope John Paul II, once said: “Among all unimportant subjects, football is by far the most important”. Without any doubt, football is a global crowd puller, and...
View ArticleAbiola: Beyond the Democracy Day declaration
Ayo Oyoze Baje Some political analysts called it “a masterstroke”. Others compared it to that of a marksman, aiming well at the game in view and scoring the bull’s eye. And his legions of admirers, who...
View ArticleSocial contract and pro-masses movement
Ariyo-Dare Atoye The legendary Karl Max had unsuccessfully predicted the imminent revolution of the working class when individuals – the common man – would finally be free to develop their abilities...
View ArticleCorruption and development in Nigeria
Abdraheem Ismail Opeyemi A thorough clarification of the concept of corruption and development qualifies them to be global phenomenon. Although the concepts are conflicting but yet the reality of the...
View ArticlePromoting Nigeria’s local content technology
Kayode Ojewale One of the ways Nigerian institutions can contribute to the economy of the country and justify huge budgetary allocations on them is to undertake research to develop middle level...
View ArticleChild bride and SDGs attainment in Africa
Ekene Odigwe Noura Hussein Hammad was forced to experience the misery of child marriage at the age of fifteen. Despite her refusal, she got married on paper to one of her relatives at 15 years old,...
View Article2019: Return of Iroko and the new order
Ariyo-Dare Atoye AS we approach the 2019 general elections, it is pertinent to interrogate the capacity of Nigeria to understand and grapple with the emerging realities in the world in order to...
View ArticleStrategic planning, workforce and productivity
Akintola Benson-Oke The balancing of competing interests, judicious allocation of resources, and the increase of productivity are often the major challenges that confront the management of any...
View ArticleBuhari and the politics of possibilities
Promise Adiele English literary genius, William Shakespeare, even without the intervening benefit of quality education was directly in touch with the Muse which possessed him at will. In the play...
View ArticleBuhari, Abiola and June 12 services?
The winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election annulled by the then President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida regime, the now late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola (MKO), is one personality...
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