By IFEATU AGBU    In less than three years as Managing Director/CEO of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Dr Samuel Ogbuku has turned the agency into a case study for turnaround leadership, and the awards have followed him almost as fast as the projects. From transparency in public service to youth empowerment and infrastructure delivery, […]

By Udo Ibuot In the evening of life, many thinkers are usually left with the sorrowful impressions of the futility of human existence. They perceive how the teachings dispensed by institutions of learning enable them to acquire many superfluous things, while nothing is taught of those matters that are of vast importance in the conduct of human […]

By DAYO ADEJOBI The passing of our mother, Reverend Mother Superior Olive Sulola Adejobi, marks the close of a life both remarkable and deeply influential, lived with quiet dignity over 98 years. She belonged to a rare generation of women whose strength was neither loudly proclaimed nor easily shaken but steadily revealed through a life anchored […]

By Abiodun Alade As Aliko Dangote turns 69, his story demands to be read not as a biography of wealth, but as a case study in Africa’s unfinished industrial argument. For decades, the continent has lived with a structural contradiction. It exports raw materials and imports finished goods. It produces crude oil but imports refined fuel. […]

By William Ochonu  In global history, there are women who have made indelible marks of grace on the solid rock of time. If they were from the Bible, they are qualified as virtuous women, whose values are more than rubies. Politically, they are Amazons, whose qualities transcend their feminine attributes and melt the iron pillars […]