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The Challenges Of Governance And Dev In Lagos (2)

By Babatunde Fashola Lagos, of course, has chosen a different path. It lives largely on the revenue it raises by…

How Independent Are State Independent Electoral Commissions?

By Odunayo Joseph Going by the newspaper reports on the local council election held in Kogi State on Saturday, 4…

Jonathan, 2015 Race And The People’s Welfare

It is sad that more than two years to the presidential election in 2015, governance has been largely abandoned by…

APC: Change Is Coming

By Joe Igbokwe All over the world the only thing that is permanent is change. You buy a motorcycle or…

Much Ado About Private Jets

In the wake of recent crisis between Rivers State Government and Nigerian aviation authorities over a jet purchased with Rivers…

Liberating And Co-ordinating Diversity

By Babatunde Fashola I have to say it is a real pleasure to be invited to speak at such an…

Celebrate Your Spouse

One finds it quite unusual for someone to scream ‘CELEBRATE’. I cannot blame you because we find ourselves in a…

What Happened To Yearly NYSC Presidential Merit Awards?

By Tosin Adu Few years after the 1973 inauguration of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, as one of the…

MDGs: Nigeria’s Gains, Challenges

By Precious Kalamba Gbeneol In September 2000, building upon a decade of major United Nations conferences and summits, world leaders…

Avoiding The Fury Of Flood

Late last month, the Director General, Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency, NIHSA, John Shamonda, presented the 2013 Annual Flood Outlook, AFO,…

Yes, Lagos Is Safe!

By Joe Igbokwe Ordinarily, Lagos like every other smart and intelligent cities in the world, are fertile grounds for criminals.…

Crime And Punishment: Thinking Beyond The Law (2)

By Bamidele Aturu Second, in real terms the state is above the laws as it has the power to alter…

Varsity Admission Time Bomb

It was with trepidation that the Education Minister, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufai struggled last Saturday to explain the dilemma the Federal…

Birthday Notes To A Lost Nirvana

By Femi Osofisan I know Kole Omotoso. Wrong. I used to know Kole Omotoso, the Nigerian writer. Some thirty years…

Nebo: The New Spirit In The Power Sector

By Sunny Igboanugo When the Minister of Power, Professor Chinedu Ositadimma Nebo, stood before the Senate earlier this year to…

Addressing The Menace Of Child Molestation And Rape

By Akunna  Ejim A seven-year-old child, living with her aunt in Delta state, was repeatedly molested and raped by a…

The ‘Fake Universities’ Syndrome

By Chido Onumah Last July, shortly after the horrific Dana Air crash that killed over a hundred Nigerians, I did…

LMC/Clubs Managers’ Crisis: Time For Peace To Reign

Stakeholders of Nigerian football were shocked when clubs’ chairmen said they had sacked the League Management Company (LMC) headed by…

Crime And Punishment: Thinking Beyond The Law

By Bamidele Aturu “The quantity and quality of crime in a given society is inseparable from the prevailing conditions of…

Ask Double A

We shall devote this week to answering some money questions from the mail box. We are treating two of such…

Nothing But The Truth

Telling the truth in relationship should be a thing of prime priority but unfortunately, for reasons best known to them,…

Baga Massacre: Too Little, Too Late

The media was awashed this week with news of a mass murder, arson and outright brigandage perpetrated in the fishing…

Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: A Timeless Piece

By Grace Igbokwe Chinua Achebe was well known throughout the thirty-six states of the federation and even beyond. His fame…

Boston Manhunt And The Lessons For Nigeria

By Tayo Ogunbiyi The attention of the whole world was drawn to Boston, in the United States of America, these…

PDP’s War Of Attrition

The war of attrition between President Goodluck Jonathan and the Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi, is heating up the political…

Nigeria From 1966-1970: The American Files Are Not From Heaven (Part III)

By Henry Chukwuemeka Onyeka Awoyokun should have done more research before concluding that the coup was an Igbo affair. Northern…

Regulating The Practice Of Estate Agency In Lagos

By Sola Ogunmosunle Just recently, the media was awash with the news of a Lagos property developer cum estate agent…

This Is Serious

After my last article Find Out More, I received a lot of comments from people who had never heard about…

Responding To Stress

Sometimes we have demands made on our body that we could hardly cope with. Other times we try to cope…

Youth Unemployment, A Time Bomb

After spending five days in captivity, the Chairman of Ejigbo Local Council Development Authority, Mr. Kehinde Bamigbetan, finally regained his…
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