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Lifting 100m out of poverty: Good vision, poor strategy
While inaugurating the National Steering Committee (NSC) of the National Poverty Reduction with Growth Strategy (NPRGS) last Tuesday in Abuja, President MuhammaduBuhari reiterated his commitment to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty…
In times such as this…
Nigeria is speedily moving from the precipice to the tipping point. According to Malcolm Gladwell, author of the book, Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, the tipping point is “the moment of critical mass, the…
Restructuring: Nigeria’s opportunity to change her narrative
Before the military putsch of January 15, 1966, which ended the First Republic and foisted the first military rule on the country, Nigeria operated as a true federal state. The regions were strong and took full responsibility for…
14million out-of-school children and the looming disaster
AT the presentation, last Thursday, of a book, The Man, The General, The President, written in commemoration of his 84th birthday, former President Olusegun Obasanjo brought to the fore the dire strait in which the country is with respect…
What’s President Buhari’s complaint?
President Muhammadu Buhari astounded the nation last Wednesday when he switched into lamentation mood over the nation’s growing insecurity. The President, who was speaking through the Secretary to the Federal Government, Boss Mustapha, at a…
Malami’s gaffe and FG’s insincerity
Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, unwittingly revealed the real reason behind the Federal Government’s inability to check the menace of killer herdsmen, who have been ravaging many parts of the…
Pray, Mr President, what should Nigerians understand?
President Muhammadu Buhari, while speaking with State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, last Thursday, after observing the Eid prayer marking the end of the Ramadan fast, said he expected Nigerians to show more…
Is hope strong enough to arrest insecurity?
While speaking at the 108th Baptist Convention held penultimate week, former President Olusegun Obasanjo expressed the hope that Nigeria would not be consumed by its current security challenges. The former President said, “I am an incurable…
Nigeria and dearth of statesmen?
With the struggle for power by the political class which has resulted in the polity being extremely heated and the Nigerian space almost turned into a killing field, my mind travels to the 2012 Democratic Party’s National Convention in…
Nigeria: Racing back to 1967
The outbreak of Nigerian Civil war on July 6, 1967 was the climax of a number of activities that made the resort to war a fait accompli. The war was preceded by an extensive tension, which no one made any serious attempt to douse. There…