Uncommon energy, by Patrick Omorodion
To be a goal getter in any endeavour, you must have a strength of character that enables you choose “the harder right over the easier wrong.” People with such characters show quiet resilience, emotional restraint and integrity when it is difficult to do so. They tend to exhibit uncommon energy in doing things to achieve […]
Fifty years of Gowon’s overthrow(7), by Eric Teniola
From last week, this is the concluding narrative of General Yakubu Gowon’s many landmark achievements before his overthrow on July 30, 1975. These included the establishment of many companies with significant Federal Government shareholdings as well as the promulgation of the Indigenisation Decree. Also worthy of mention is the setting up of the National Youth Service […]
Northern Governors on the spot, by Hakeem Baba-Ahmed
“If the owner of the land leads you, you cannot get lost”— African proverb. Perhaps it was inevitable, but the tide of negative public opinion on Northern Governors has been rising at a pace that should worry them. The reality is that more articulate and influential voices are being raised against their performance and commitment to […]
Paradoxes of Nigeria’s crude oil and fuel sector
By Dele Sobowale “How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress” – Niels Bohr, 1885-11962 Bohr, a Danish Nobel Prize Winner in Physics was one of the leaders in unraveling the mysteries of quantum theory. Along the line, he discovered that atoms don’t act in predictable […]
Okonjo-Iweala: Saleswoman of WTO bad products, by Owei Lakemfa
The Nigerian-born, American Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, WTO, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, visited her old country on August 14, 2025. A consummate politician, she told the Bola Tinubu administration what it loves to hear: that it is doing quite well. She told the suffering population what they know: that they are suffering. She then presented […]
Abdul Oroh and a durable coalition for hope in Nigeria
By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu Abdul Oroh is an unlikely avatar of the Nigerian dream. An Afenmai from Ivbiaro in Owan West Local Government Area of Edo State in the south-south of Nigeria, Abdul had the privilege of seeing Nigeria’s promise at independence and its descent to the edge of the proverbial precipice. Born in August […]
