As communication holds the important role of transferring ideas, it is more invaluable in work and professional spaces. While written documents such as reports, articles, and essays allow for detailed comprehension of analysis, oral presentations allow for  unhinged perspectives and insights to the audience which it is relevant for.  The transition from written content to […]

NYESOM Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, must be feeling on top of the world right now. He has successfully retrieved the structure of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State from Governor Siminalayi Fubara. With the endorsement of the National Working Committee, NWC, of the party and the fact that the […]

THE hard times Nigerians are passing through are not about to end; it’s getting clearer by the day. The more things change, the more they remain the same. That may sound, these days, like a cliche where Nigerians are concerned. But it says so much about the situation we’ve found ourselves in. For several years and, […]

“And We (Allah) caused streams to spring from the earth. Therefore, the waters from the earth and the heavens joined for a matter predetermined (long before)” – The Holy Qur’an (54:12) IF a disaster of such magnitude had happened in China, President Xi Jinping himself and members of the Communist Party of China, CPC, Politburo would […]

WRITING on the new Government’s initiative on the Digital Switchover, DSO, on August 28, 2024, we made the following observations on this column: “This has not said much about the place of the signal distributors and Set Top Box manufacturers who were encouraged to invest heavily in the DSO process and have hardly recouped some of […]

WHEN Professor Sam Amadi, Director of the Abuja School of Social and Political Thought, and veteran public analyst, requested that I should make a presentation on the subject of ECOWAS Standby Force, ESF, in the fight against violent conflicts and terrorism in the sub-region, I did not need to be persuaded before I accepted.  Among other […]

Nigeria’s leadership is central to its success in this new scramble for Africa; without visionary and strategic leadership capable of understanding global dynamics and advancing Nigeria’s long-term interests, the country risks being left behind in the race for international influence

To me the denouncement of America by General Moham- med looked contradictory when earlier on October 18, 1975 he forced on us without a referen- dum or a plebiscite, the Ameri- can presidential system of government

IT is bizarre. The International Monetary Fund, IMF, calling on the government to protect the poor from the impact of the fuel price hikes it engineers! To add to its criminal thought process against the Nigerian people, the same IMF is telling the Tinubu administration that fuel prices in Nigeria are too low and need to […]

“I am beginning to wonder how many fools it takes to make the term ‘My Fellow Citizens’” -Honore de Balzac, 1799-1850, in LOST ILLUSIONS You were probably one of those who eagerly awaited the completion of the Dangote Refinery while labouring under the illusion that it will crash the price of fuel nationwide. Welcome to […]

In countries like the United States, political debates are unavoidable and indispensable, political fortunes can rise or fall on the strength of a debate

We do not even need a law to avoid appointing members of the ruling party into an independent electoral body, how can the referee of a game be one of the players of one of the teams in a match?

A popular song in our churches is  “ There shall be showers of blessings, This is the promise of love, There shall be seasons  refreshing, Sent from the Saviour Above…”  Daniel Whittle composed the song in 1883. That popular song remains evergreen. A part of the song that every Christian believes is that showers of […]

If talents are discovered very early and competitions are introduced for U-13, U-15 and U-17 categories, the country will have a big reservoir of athletes ready to fill the vacuums created when the older ones retire.

Eguavoen passed the test, ‘disappointed’ his critics, and created a beautiful new dilemma for his employers, the Nigeria Football Federation