Tag: Rasak Musbau
Infrastructure asset management – The Lagos example
Infrastructure asset management in Lagos State has become a good practice and culture that has been prioritized by the current…
Boko Haram And The Assault On Education
By Rasak Musbau Ignorance, Poverty and Strife – the real axis of evil- are not inevitable in any part of…
Teachers And Falling Standard Of Education
By Rasak Musbau According to 2014 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Malala Yousafzai, “One child, one teacher, one book, and one…
Ramadan And Social Change
By Rasak Musbau Ramadan offers Muslim faithful a unique opportunity to move closer to the creator and inspire spiritual rebirth…
Corruption, Security Agencies And National Security
By Rasak Musbau In every society, there are bound to be deviants who disobey the laws of the society. This…
Preserving The Lagos Environment
By Rasak Musbau In his inauguration speech, in 2007, Governor Babatunde Fashola reiterated his administration’s commitment to environmental renewal when…
Keeping The Nigerian Ship Afloat
By Rasak Musbau Former President of the United States of America, Abraham Lincoln, once said: “I like a man proud…
Achieving A HIV/AIDS-Free Generation
By Rasak Musbau In 1988, the World Health Organization (WHO) instituted December 1 every year as World AIDS Day. The…
Breaking The Silence On Open Defecation
By Rasak Musbau “I am moved by the fact that a child dies every 2 and a half minutes from…
Can The Youths Deliver This Country?
By Rasak Musbau There is evidently the general agreement now that we need a fresh focus on governance and leadership…
Life Is Better With Trees
By Rasak Musbau As we commemorated this year’s tree planting day on Monday, July 14, with the theme: ‘Life is…
Curbing Drug Abuse And Illicit Trafficking
By Rasak Musbau Globally, June 26 of every year is designated the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.…
Re-Inventing The Public Service
By Rasak Musbau Poor leadership and mismanagement have been the bane of Nigeria since independence. With security concerns surging to…
The Dangers Of Ethnic, Religious, Sectional Manipulation
By Rasak Musbau One of the very important values accepted by most people and nations in the world today is…
Nigeria And The Malady Of Corruption
By Rasak Musbau “Corruption is authority plus monopoly minus transparency” — Anonymous Going by the resources that the good Lord…
In Support Of Proposed Lagos Anti-Smoking Law
By Rasak Musbau The Lagos State House of Assembly is a good case study of how the legislative arm of…
Enabling The Physically Challenged
By Rasak Musbau According to English writer and politician, William Hay (1695-1755), one great advantage of deformity is that it…
Food Security: The Lagos Example
By Rasak Musbau It is very sad that with much potential to achieve agricultural success, streets in most parts of…
Fashola As A Social Engineer
By Rasak Musbau In the not-too-distant past, the city of Lagos was not synonymous with orderliness, cleanliness or any such…
Child Marriage And Nigeria’s Priority Agenda For Children
By Rasak Musbau Child marriage is a global scourge. Today, more than 67 million women from ages 20-24 were married…
Promoting Human Survival Through Tree Planting
By Rasak Musbau The importance of the emergence of tree before the advent of man on earth is not lost…
Immortalizing Our Heroes—The Lagos Example
By Rasak Musbau Hannah Arendt, German-born US philosopher and historian, once said that the connection between history and nature is…
Curbing Drug Abuse And Illicit Trafficking
By Rasak Musbau June 26 is the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. Set aside by the United…
Lagos And The Challenge Of Widening The Tax Net
By Rasak Musbau There is evidently an urgent need for a fresh focus on governance and democratization in our troubled…
Road To Achieving Zero New HIV Infection
By Rasak Musbau When AIDS emerged from the shadows three decades ago, few people could predict how the epidemic would…