Branding of Nigeria Air
From culture, religion, politics to education, sports and other socio-economic ramifications, we hardly get the basics right in our national branding. Ernie Onwumere Almost 58 years after...
View ArticleRestoration of good governance in Enugu
Governor Ugwuanyi is a good listener and Enugu State is experiencing good governance under him. This legacy should not only continue but be sustained. Aloysius Emeka Attah As a student of Comparative...
View ArticleThe march towards 2019
In another six months or so, Nigeria will be on the march again, in the quest for a president who will administer the affairs of the nation from mid-2019 to mid-2023. The politics of deciding who that...
View ArticleMotivational speaking at a glance
While the art of motivational speaking is excellent, the populace should be aware that human beings have innate idiosyncrasies which require isolated approaches and can only be bestirred given personal...
View ArticleProviding a check on expiry dates of drugs
Kayode Ojewale Lately, Nigeria has witnessed increased cases of some heartless human beings with dead conscience relabeling and revalidating dates of expired foods and drugs. The arrests of...
View ArticleWill Nigeria’s democracy ever favour the poor?
The cost of accessing political power, skewed in favour of the political class, constitute cogs in the wheel of sustainable socio-economic development. Ayo Oyoze Baje “Your leaders have no respect for...
View ArticleNigeria and the fate of the Igbo
Our drive or our consolation should always be the ethereal optimism, which is our destination. It is inescapably true that our fate lies in our hands. Acho Orabuchi In fact, I could hear the inherent...
View ArticleThe ’new task’ before Anenih @ 85
As Nigeria sails into the tempest of another slippery election period, there appears to be a new task before Pa Anenih, which can better be discharged with old age… Ariyo-Dare Atoye At 85, the Iyasele...
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‘Order from above’
Two security agencies prevented 22 other members of the Assembly from gaining access to the House of Assembly because of order from above. Lewis Obi Nigerians think they understand what has been said...
View ArticleBetween saints and sinners
It is to the credit of the saints and the sinners that we now rank as one of the chronic poverty capitals of the world Oludayo Tade “They say if Buhari wins election, they will all go to prison. That...
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Halting the reign of impunity
What is happening may precipitate anarchy on our shores. Impunity in whatever form must be halted before Nigeria becomes a banana republic. Robert Obioha The Tuesday sack of the Director-General of the...
View ArticleAs Discos throw in the towel
Core investors of Electricity Distribution Companies are beginning to throw in the towel after five years of privatisation characterised by ineptitude… Sunday Onyemaechi Eze Keen observers and genuine...
View ArticleECOWAS – ECCAS: Good thinking
Arms struggle which is the greatest distracting race in both ECOWAS and ECCAS is inhibiting human development and prosperity in the two regions and calls for common front to tackle it. Victor C....
View Article2019: Okotie’s charter for an interim government
George Okolo The elections since the return to civil rule in 1999 have produced four presidents, three from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and one, the incumbent, President Muhammadu Buhari, from...
View ArticleEkiti poll and 2019
The amount of money spent on the day of the Ekiti election calls for serious concern. Mainstream political parties turned the election to a political bazaar Yinka Adeosun Elections come and go. But the...
View ArticleMy Daily Times memoirs: Tunji Oseni (1)
This prefatory to my Daily Times’ odyssey will not be complete without mentioning Mr. Tunji Oseni, the most influential person in my media employment profile as captured in the following lines. Ebere...
View ArticleRestructuring: A win-win for all Nigerians
Anybody who cannot tell Nigerians at the State level how, he/she is going to generate the required resources to run the State he/she is aspiring to govern is not worthy of the electorates’ votes....
View ArticlePolitics and the looming danger
There are countless examples of government inactions propelling this looming failure but the most radical that comes to mind is the leaders failure to remember that ‘corruption destroys and breaks that...
View ArticleShowcasing Kwali potentials in South Africa
The summit also sought to expose and equip the participants, which included the Kwali Area Council boss with the necessary tools and information on how to achieve the goals and objectives. Chukwudi...
View ArticleAPC crisis: Fresh trouble looms if NASS reconvenes
Should the NASS reconvene today, the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo should restrain these anti-democratic forces as he did exactly a week ago. Dan Onwukwe It has been a season of bizarre, dizzying...
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