Whose time is it? By Patrick Omorodion
There is a saying in our local parlance that ‘if one man own no spoil, another man own no go better’.? This means that “One man’s loss is another man’s gain.” In 2015, then president of FIFA, Joseph Sepp Blatter was in his fifth term as president of football’s world body when he ran into […]
Let’s all defect, now!
EARLIER this week, Tuesday precisely, Governor Peter Ndubuisi Mbah of Enugu State, elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, ditched his party, and with his entire political machinery, defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. He was not the first, and will not be the last. His colleagues of the PDP that had […]
Auntie Beatrice Tribute, by Donu Kogbara
Last week, Mrs Beatrice Awura Oboshie Allua Fisher was laid to rest in Lagos alongside her beloved late husband, Lanre Fisher, an engineer, having passed away at her London residence at the grand old age of 92. Her children, Peter and Annette, are my pals and she was like a second mother to me, an adored auntie […]
Obasanjo and the haunting ghost of his Third Term Agenda, by Olu Fasan
Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria’s former military ruler and former civilian president, is a bundle of contradictions. One could write a book on Obasanjo’s strengths, and another on his flaws. Of course, Obasanjo is his own hagiographer. He has written many books on himself, with such self-referential titles as My Command, Not My Will and My Watch. […]
Speed Reading: A Game Changer for Today’s Knowledge-Driven World, by Ruth Oji
How many unread articles, emails, and reports are sitting on your desk or in your inbox right now? If your answer is “too many,” you’re not alone. Today, we’re inundated with information from every corner — news updates, academic readings, technical manuals, reports, briefs, blog posts, research papers, and more. The truth is while we can’t […]
Christopher Kolade: I lost a mentor, a friend, by Ikechukwu Amaechi
I was in the middle of a meeting on October 9, when my friend and colleague, Emeka Duru, sent me a cryptic message: “What is going on Iyke? I am just reading on Facebook that Dr. Christopher Kolade is dead! Please can you help us confirm that?” I froze. While praying fervently that it should be […]
