Nigeria is positioned by God’s endowment to be the prime mover for developing the African continent. A cursory look at the human, material and natural resources bestowed on this nation clearly indicates that this country will be a continental and global success when properly tapped, harnessed and deployed.
This piece is not intended to mourn the lost opportunities in the past but to ginger and promote new strategies for actualizing our nation’s rapid development.

In the words of English-American author and inspirational speaker, Simon Sinek,  “leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.”

By JAKE DAN-AZUMI IT is remarkably easy to underestimate Abbas Tajudeen due to his rare humility and self-effacing demeanour. Many of his colleagues and Nigerians observing from the sidelines never imagined him being elected Speaker, let alone succeeding in the role. This concern was further heightened by the historical turbulence that often defines the House […]

By JEROME-MARIO UTOMI IT was in the news that the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, recently presented a N1.91 trillion 2024 budget to the Senate Committee on NDDC. The draft budget (as it then was) emphasized priorities such as security, job creation, youth and women empowerment, social welfare, education and infrastructure, among others. Without going into […]

This is the season of imaginative creation of theft of intellectual property; this is the season of claimed sampling of songs; this is the season of parroting of copyright infringement rhetorics; this is the season of jarring claims of originality – a merely claimed originality that does not exist in actual sense.