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Okuama: When Political Blame Ignores the Constitution, Fuels Blackmail

By Ufuoma Egbe The tragedy of Okuama has left deep wounds. Families have lost loved ones, a community has suffered devastation, and several Okuama leaders have remained in detention for an agonising period. Their plight deserves justice, compassion and sustained public attention. But precisely because the tragedy is so painful, it must not become an […]
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Nigerian healthcare: Questions worth asking

By LADE BANDELE  How should a nation judge the performance of its health sector?” Public life has an odd way of allowing the loudest questions to eclipse the most important ones. A claim is made, a rebuttal follows, familiar positions harden, and attention gradually drifts from the matter under discussion to the argument surrounding it. Before […]

Cultural IP: Nigeria and Africa’s Untapped Asset

By Obi Asika, Director-General & CEO, National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC) We carry within us the origin of everything. That is not rhetoric — it is history, and it is the starting point of one of the most consequential economic arguments Africa has yet to make. Before we can build the cultural IP […]

Okowa : Fine wine @67

By Tony Ugbejie The personality of His Excellency, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, former Delta state Governor, from his early days has not changed. In politics and as a private citizen he is a meek and loyal person, however what has really distinguished him from the pack is his deep intellect and his capacity to put in […]

Civil service and leadership synergy

While Olaopa confidently declares that although he has worked with many highly  placed people in government, Walson-Jack’s collegial spirit is unrivalled

Policy and Legislative Resilience: An innovation for Nigeria’s governance moment 

By Hajiya Fatima Y. Usman-Katsina Resilience is something I am quite familiar with. It’s about inner strength. It’s about looking inward, doing an internal deep-dive. It’s about determination and persistence, it’s about clarity of purpose. It is through this lens that I look at the world and at governance, and have come to the only […]

SEDC: Reinventing Michael Okpara’s agricultural and agro-industrial revolution

By Emmanuel Nzomiwu Although Dr. Michael Iheonukara Okpara died almost 42 years ago, the mention of his name in Nigeria today evokes memories of the agricultural and agro-industrial revolution in Eastern Nigeria in the 1950s and ’60s, during his days as the Premier of the former Eastern Region. During that glorious era, the Eastern Region ranked […]

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