*Continued from last week While stories engage emotions, data provides credibility. The key is to weave your data seamlessly into your narrative, using it to support and enhance your story rather than overshadowing it. Here are some techniques: 1. Use data to set the stage: “In a market where 70% of startups fail within the first […]

OVER the weekend, something that brought smiles to my face showed on TV. Civil War Leader, General Yakubu Gowon(PhD) marked his 90th birthday in style. What added spice to the event was the appearance of General Olusegun Obasanjo(PhD) beside him. What a rare picture that was! Usually, Gowon and Obasanjo painstakingly avoid each other. The former […]

THERE is a curious assertion of statehood, the rights and powers of states against the extent and limit of federal control in our so-called federation that has emerged in the last couple of months. Suddenly, some individuals and groups are waking up to the realisation that Nigeria is not all about the Federal Government, that the […]

“I saw not victory after the war, but a new and happier world after the victory” – John Buchan EVEN while prosecuting the Civil War, General Yakubu Gowon was thinking about how to win the peace that would inevitably ensue. In a radio broadcast to the nation on October 1, 1970, he outlined a nine-point programme […]

ON this very day, I want to acknowledge with utmost respect that there could be so many items on President Bola Tinubu’s plate; so I do not, by any means, want to add anything to that mix which could give even an elephant a headache. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown, they say. Looking […]

On Dangote Refinery: Sandwiched Between Plenty and  Want  *Dr Kehinde Abiola THE article of Aare Afe Babalola in his LAW &YOU  column on the above subject in the Vanguard Newspapers on August 7, 2024 and Tribune newspaper of August 8, 2024, kindly refer. I have taken keen interest on the brouhaha between Dangote Refinery and […]

A bill for the establishment of Bola Ahmed Tinubu Federal University of Languages has reportedly passed the first reading at the House of Representatives.  Section 2 part I of the bill,  which is sponsored by the Deputy Speaker, Benjamin Kalu, and eight others, provides that the university, when established, shall encourage “the advancement of learning and […]

From last week, continues the list of names of the ministers produced following the alliance between the Northern Peoples Congress, NPC, and the Nigerian National Democratic Party, NNDP that gave birth to the NNA in the First Republic.  Others were Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (Prime Minister and External Affairs), Alhaji Muhammadu Ribadu (Defence), Chief Festus […]

EACH year, the Nobel Prize serves as a global recognition of exceptional human contributions across various fields, including Literature, Science, Economics, and the promotion of peace. This prestigious award represents the potential to advance knowledge and address some of the world’s most pressing issues. In 2024, the Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Daron Acemoglu, […]

By Dele Sobowale “Shock as banks record huge profit amidst gloomy economy.” Vanguard, October 7, 2024. History does not usually repeat itself; it is human beings, in various spheres of life who commit the same blunders several times; and the same consequences follow. According to the story by Peter Egwuatu and Nkirka Nnorom, “Earnings rise 132% […]

THE Super Eagles nightmare in Libya and, the World Bank insanely asking Nigerians to endure 15 more years of suffocation and pain, speak to a poverty of ideas. The lives of the Eagles and officials were endangered when the aircraft carrying them, which was descending at the Benghazi Airport, was suddenly ordered back into the skies. […]

By every index, Nigeria as a nation, has very nearly, finally collapsed. It is held together now only by a very weak thread called fate. Basically, Nigeria has slipped to the symbolic phase of nationhood. It can only perform symbolic actions of nationness: convoke a parliament which only sits symbolically because it is actually not […]

It is the turn of the people of Ondo State, Southwest Nigeria, to pass through the ordeal of a governorship election in the country. The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, the body empowered to organize elections in Nigeria has since scheduled Saturday, November 16, 2024 as voting day for the contest. Indeed, as far back […]

“No peace can last or ought to last which does not recognise and accept the principle that governments derive all their powers from the consent of the governed” – US President Woodrow Wilson, 1856-1924, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, VBQ, p 185. Kaduna State, until a few months ago, was grouped with Katsina, Niger, Benue and […]

President of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, Bishop David Oyedepo describes the Holy Bible as God’s Constitution for mankind. The book is expected to guide man to navigate this world without blemish if man adheres to the teachings therein. There is nothing under the sun, including human behaviour, that is not mentioned and how to […]