FG, provide palliatives to assist Nigerians
THE Federal Government should, without delay, come up with measures to cushion the effect of the astronomical rise in the…
Towards saving LAUTECH
FOR some time now, the Oyo and Osun State governments have been having disagreements over the joint ownership of Ladoke…
African leaders and lessons from the UN
A T the just concluded United Nations General Assembly, it was characteristic of Western leaders to have given a parting…
Civil servants as public liabilities?
Time it was when the nation’s civil service could boast of the finest traditions of service. Not anymore. It is…
Towards reviving Unity Schools
Unity schools were unique. Unity schools is the name coined for Federal Government Colleges and Federal Government Girls’ Colleges founded…
PDP: Road to next convention
A lot has been said about the botched national convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Port Harcourt, Rivers…
Who is afraid of Ekungba?
Suddenly, the media deemed Chief Jamiu Ekungba as deserving the most robust visibility among all the recent All Progressives Congress…
Parents’ role on film rating in Nigeria
Across the country today, motion pictures have become the key source of entertainments to many homes and families, everyone now…
Change begins with all of us
T HE ‘Change Begins With Me’ campaigns kick-started by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, is…
On African Union’s new electronic passport
Lately, the long-awaited African Union (AU) passport was presented by the Commission’s Chairperson, Dr. Dlamini Zuma, to the Chairperson of…
Buhari is not the plagiarist
D URING the tenure of one of our past presidents, I was given a publication to distil some of its…
Combating violence against women and girls
Gender-based violence (GBV) is a global epidemic, as it crosses every social and economic class, ethnicity, race, religion, sex and…
Travelling on Nigeria’s terrible roads
Given Nigeria’s natural endowments even in the form of impressive topography, from the awe-inspiring flat savannah plains in the North,…
Curbing Nigeria’s exponential population growth
IN reaction to my recent piece entitled: “We kill militants but in vain,” a reader, Oris Obelikpeyah, wrote in as…
Rebuilding Nigeria’s economy with oil seeds
Economic growth and prosperity are central to long-term poverty alleviation for social and environmental sustainability. The vegetable oil industry represents…
Economy: Diversification alone is not the solution
The essence of democracy is for political office holders and policymakers to muster the capacity to identify and satisfy the…
‘Made in Nigeria’: Towards Nigeria’s economic renaissance
Made in Nigeria”, as Professor Ojetunji Aboyade would have perceived it, is a strong and intuitive slogan with a very…
Winning the peace in North-East Nigeria
We are talking about two distinct issues, though they are directly related: First, strategies for peace building in northern Nigeria,…
Made in Nigeria: A dream or possibility
The Nigerian development predicament has so many dimensions from which one can begin to unpack its meaning and solutions. But…
Learning from Madiba’s enclave
N OT many people are cut out for politics of acrimony and mudslinging. Fundamental human rights entails freedom of association…
