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Year: 2021
News
Backlash As Swiss Newspapers Say The New WTO DG Is a ’66-year-old Nigerian Grandmother’ | TheCable
You could graduate from Harvard University or bag a Ph.D. from MIT, and rise to become the managing director of the World Bank who wins the heart of 164 countries to be voted WTO DG […]
Issues/Policy
The Biggest Losers If Nigeria Breaks Up By Fredrick Nwabufo
The idea of having a near-perfect country out of a ruptured Nigeria is illusory. The composite parts of the country each contribute to the miasma of confusion that Nigeria is. No single entity is responsible […]
Issues/Policy
For The Good of Nigeria By Matthew Agboma Ozah
At last, he finally responded to the elite, a class of distinguishing and eminent statesmen and women who chose to talk tough but true about the situation of things in the country. But, regrettably in […]
Issues/Policy
Coronavirus Diary – Part 46 By Sylvester Odion Akhaine
A new sheriff is in town” often heralds a breakthrough in crime combat. How appropriate that phrase announces trends in the ravaging coronavirus, I do not know. But I could simply say the nightmare is […]
Issues/Policy
AfCFTA Imperatives To Ensure Its Success By Gagan Gupta
Much attention has been devoted to the launch of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) on January 1, 2021. As the CEO of the pan-African provider of industrial ecosystems, I am convinced about the […]
News
Lent: Living Beyond The Narcotic Opium of Pleasure By George Adimike
Even though pleasure serves man’s appreciation of his immeasurable worth as a son-steward entrusted with the universal estate of God (creation), it can be abused. Hence, irrespective of its value to life, pleasure, precisely as […]
Editorial
Guardian (NG):Sheikh Gumi, Banditry And Governance Failure
If anyone seeks a compelling indication of a failure of governance in this polity, it is the recent personal intervention of Sheikh Ahmad Gumi in pursuit of peace between bandits and herdsmen in the Tubali […]
News
JUST IN: Obinwanne Okeke Gets His Comeuppance, Jailed For 10 Years In US
A court in Norfolk, Virginia, United States on Tuesday jailed Nigerian scammer Obinwanne Okeke 10 years for computer-based fraud scheme that caused approximately $11 million in known losses to his victims. The sentencing was pronounced […]
Issues/Policy
Cries For Justice: Shasha and The Burden of Political Leadership By Salihu Moh. Lukman
The reported clash between Hausa and Yoruba traders in Shasha, Ibadan on Thursday, February 12, 2021 should be alarming for every Nigerian. Given that the crisis was triggered by avoidable circumstance of a Hausa man […]
Tribute
Jakande – Farewell To The Architect of Modern Lagos By Wale Adebanwi
Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande, the first executive Governor of Lagos State (1979-1983) who died on Thursday, 11 February 2021 at 91, was a rare combination of administrative genius in public governance and humility, even self-effacement, […]
News
Breaking: Buhari Dumps Magu, Asks Senate To Confirm Bawa As EFCC Chairman
By Kazeem Ugbodaga President Muhammadu Buhari has dumped suspended EFCC acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu and asked the Senat to confirm Abdulrasheed Bawa as substantive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Magu was […]
Daily Digest
Discussing Apapa Traffic On Daily Digest On Nigeria Info With Environment Consultant, Patrick Adenusi
Discussing Apapa Traffic On Daily Digest On Nigeria Info With Environment Consultant, Patrick Adenusi
News
I’m Still In PDP — Goodluck Jonathan
Amidst growing speculations that former President Goodluck Jonathan might dump the Peoples Democratic Party, for the ruling All Progressives Congress, the latter has squashed all conjectures by reaffirming his loyalty to the PDP, declaring that […]
Issues/Policy
Drummers Of Hate And The Drunken Dancers By Reuben Abati
On Sunday, February 14, the Nigerian Presidency in a statement signed by spokesman Garba Shehu reportedly affirmed that President Muhammadu Buhari is determined to ensure the protection of all religious and ethnic groups in the […]
Issues/Policy
Trump: Why Nigeria Should Explore A Bi-partisan INEC By SKC Ogbonnia
The desperate attempts by President Donald Trump to overturn a free and fair U.S. presidential election of 2020 ought to create every sense of urgency for Nigeria to explore a bi-partisan body for the conduct […]
Issues/Policy
Divisive Issues Threatening Nigeria By Luke Onyekakeyah
When the late Libyan leader, Mu’ammar al-Gadaffi once prescribed that Nigeria should divide along ethnic lines like former Yugoslavia, as panacea to frequent ethnic bloodletting in Jos and other parts of the country, he was […]
Issues/Policy
Aniedi Etim: Girl Child Activist By Ray Ekpu
A few years ago Dr Udeme Nnanna who was the Head of Department of Mass Communication at the Akwa Ibom State Polytechnic, Ikot Osurua, had invited me to come and speak to his students of […]
Issues/Policy
The Gulf Between Fulani Rulers And Herders By Akinkuolie Rasheed
The Fulani nation is the only ethnic group in West Africa that has produced Heads of State in at least five different African countries viz: The current President of Senegal, Macky Sall, the current President […]
MEDIA
Leveraging Public Relations To Facilitate Venture Capital Funding By Sunday Aikulola
Participants and speakers at the 20th NECCI PR roundtable, which held recently, have identified public relations as critical for venture capital funds needed to encourage start-ups. With the theme: ‘Raising the Venture Capital Funding Clarion […]