Issues/Policy

The title of this article is adapted from a piece by Ron Ashkenas, managing partner of Schaffer Consulting and co-author of The GE Work-Out and The Boundaryless Organisation which was published in Harvard Business Report […]

For one week of long sessions stretching into the early hours of the morning, with only a couple of hours sleep, the Senior Elder Citizens (ex-partners of KPMG who are still awaiting their gratuity and […]

‘Fanatics are like debris following the course of the wind; they are swept around like sand, and convinced to believe in what they do not understand’—–Caleb Colton What could be the mindset of Gani Adams, […]

The origin of brain drain in Africa can be traced to the Portuguese contact with the ancient Bini Empire when the son of the Oba was sent to the court of Portugal, one of the […]

There are three types of people when it comes to appreciation of events and opportunities. Some live in the past , some in the present and others in the future. It is when events have […]

In October last year, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published a report on how the falling oil prices would affect members of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), many of which “need oil […]

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Organisation (PDPPCO) Wednesrday called for the arrest of the All Progressives Congress (APC), presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), the national leader of APC, Bola Tinubu, the Governor […]

LET me first start, that like all Nigerian patriots, I feel happy that in a few weeks, the Nigerian Army and allies from Chad and Niger, inflicted backbreaking blows on the Boko Haram insurgency. As […]

With their husbands embedded in last minute strategy schemes, the wives of the two major presidential candidates, Mrs. Patience Jonathan and Aisha Buhari are moving round the country in mobilisation schemes to bring out the […]

It is said that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Perhaps, a worse fate awaits those who willfully distort history. The current election cycle has featured a great deal […]

There is no doubt that the only way the Igbos apart from political accident can produce the president in the country is by zoning. If not for the sudden demise of President Umaru Musa Yar […]

Doubtless, the most poetic comment on the serious error on this page last Wednesday was the one that came from a highly respected senior colleague describing the mistake a “Freudian coup”. Instead of the “public […]

The story you are about to read points to the fact that, that “nice man” you call your husband or that “beautiful lady” you call your wife may just be a demon in the house. […]

With the last, dying gasp of the old order, a new society is been midwifed.The presidential election on the 28th of this month will be pivotal alright but what else does it portend? In a […]

ON the February 3, 2012, a debate was held at the Angus Memorial Hall, on the campus of Igbobi College, Yaba, Lagos, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the founding of Igbobi College. The occasion […]

It looked like a scene on a modern theater stage re-enacting a familiar but long-forgotten incident of the primordial days. A man from the world of modern civilization lost in the jungle and straying into […]

There had been no little or no petrol in the country’s petrol stations for five months. The president was missing – and had been for months. The country was drifting aimlessly, on the brink. The […]

A group, the Buhari Volunteer Network, yesterday denied insinuation by the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation (PDPPCO)  that the All Progressive Party presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, will collaborating with western nations to support […]

FORMER world heavyweight boxing champion, Mohammed Ali, had once remarked that a challenger needs to “whop the champion” if he wants to win the championship belt. He had made this remark following one of his […]

A commentator, Ahmed Salami, points out the danger of sacking the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, before the polls. The most frightening and disturbing controversy since the build-up to […]