Tag: opinion
Addressing Youth Unemployment In Nigeria
By Bilikis Bakare Besides insecurity and corruption in high places, unemployment remains one of the most critical problems the country…
Baba Omojola: The Curtain Falls On An Era
By Olumuyiwa Jimoh “…We have fought our common enemy together before in the same trench, we have tasted the bruises,…
Anambra 2013: It Is Ngige All The Way
By Joe Igbokwe As the decision time draws near in Anambra State, a lot of forces are at play now.…
Pilgrims’ Progress
By Ademola Adegbamigbe President Goodluck Jonathan recently visited Israel. It was a mission that combined promotion of bilateral relations between…
Towards A Sustainable Value System For Economic Growth
By Bart Nnaji Sustained stable political climate is largely fostered by the politicians especially the political parties. Secure environment and…
The Nigerian Cult Of Mediocrity
By Lawrence Chinedu Nwobu The Bible says in Proverbs 29:18 that “where there is no vision the people perish.” This…
Golden Eaglets, NFF And Stephen Keshi
By Tayo Ogunbiyi Soccer glory once again came the way of our dear country in far- away, Abu Dhabi at…
Thank You, Golden Eaglets!
By Ayo Oyoze Baje “We seem in this country to underrate the youth. The vigour of the youth is wasted in…
Uke Stampede: Who Murdered The Innocents?
By Tony Icheku Following the massacre of over 28 souls at Holy Ghost Adoration Ministry, Uke, in Idemili North Local…
Coping With Harmattan Season
By Tayo Ogunbiyi The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language attempts a linkage between the word ‘harmattan’ and the…
The Lagos ‘Deportation’ Saga And Uke 30 In Anambra State
By Joe Igbokwe Few months back some mentally challenged indigenes of Anambra were relocated from Lagos to Anambra after months…
Merchants Of Blood Incorporated
By Ebo Socrates It is a season of mourning in Anambra State. A time of sorrows, pangs of pain, turmoil…
A Unique Brand —A Tribute To Baba Omojola
By E. C. Ejiogu If Baba Omojola were a commercial product, the most appropriate pitch-line in the marketing campaign to…
Lagos Independent Power Project
By Tayo Ogunbiyi The working article of the Lagos state government, in its developmental drive, is the Ten Point Agenda.…
Reducing The Prevalence Of Kidney Diseases
By Bilkis Bakare The frequency of kidney failure has doubled all over the world in the last two decades. In…
I Knew NNS Fearless, Mike Akhigbe
By Sonala Olumhense Someday, Namadi Sambo, at his appointed time just like everyone else, will die. Mr. Sambo is the…
ASUU Strike And Half-Baked Labour Force
By Olusola Daniel Does being a graduate of a Nigerian university guarantee you a good job these days? The answer…
Rationale For The New National Automotive Policy Framework
By Luqman Mamudu The new automotive policy is a deliberate government effort to rescue the strategic and critical automotive sector…
Nigeria At 100: The Imperative For SNC
By Egbuns Kemakola I am persuaded that it would be a mis-step and misreading of both the mood of our…
Budget Implementation And Monitoring: The Lagos Example
By Tayo Ogunbiyi The common accounting tool governments, companies, organisations and several other institutions across the world use for planning…
Teachers: Taking The Lead For Quality Education
By Adekunle Ademoye The event (techers’ day) is such that has to do with the sacred callings of the teaching…
Lagos Deputy Governor And Semi-Nude Dancers Intercession
By Ugochukwu Ugwuanyi May we give a round of applause to Hon. Victoria Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, the deputy governor of Lagos…
Northern Nigeria ready for national confab, says Aliyu
The Governor of the central Nigerian state of Niger, Alhaji Babangida Aliyu, on Saturday said the North is ready for…
Death And A Shopping Mall
By Tayo Ogunbiyi Few weeks back, the Israeli-built Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, a rendezvous of sort for people…
My Wish For Anambra State
By Joe Igbokwe As the 16 November Anambra governorship elections draw near, permutations and calculations about who the winner is…
Fashola: Nigeria must punish those behind aviation woes
Kazeem Ugbodaga Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, western Nigeria, has called on the Federal Government to mete out appropriate…
Tinubu: Why I oppose National Confab now
Nigeria’s opposition leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu argues here that the proposed National Conference is too critical to be left…
Opinion: Jonathan’s national conference a ruse
THE PROPOSED NATIONAL CONFERENCE IS PRESIDENT JONATHAN’S PERFECT RUSE. DON’T BE FOOLED! Any conference that falls short of allowing the…
My Manifesto For Anambra State
By Lawrence Chinedu Nwobu Frantz Fanon it was who said that “every generation must discover its mission, fulfil it or…
Looking Up To Tunisia For Another Exemplar
By Ugochukwu Ugwuanyi Co-Nigerians, permit me to embark on what may look like Afghanistanism today. It is not as if…