William Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar’ is, in my view, one of his best plays ever written by history’s greatest bard and playwright and it is indeed amongst my favourites.  It speaks of mob psychology, ambition, power, treachery and the most brutal and painful expression of betrayal by a loved one.  Caesar loved Brutus, his protégée, above […]

By Sylvester Obasere It is profoundly disheartening to behold you, Mr. Pius Eguono Onodjae – a man whose singular political appointment was brokered through Hon. Charles Oniyere, a beneficiary of Chief Great Ogboru’s enduring political benevolence in securing a seat in the Delta State House of Assembly – now wielding the very instrument procured through that appointment […]

By Dr. Nicholas Muraguri In the early months of the COVID-19, Africa found itself at the back of the global vaccine queue. While wealthier nations secured doses far beyond their immediate needs, many African countries waited, and waited. This was not a failure of science, but of structure. Africa imports about 90% of its medicines […]

By Vivian Eseoghene Undoubtedly, the rising profile of Chief Great Ovedje Ogboru cannot be underestimated as more and more people across the nooks and crannies of Delta state are fully realising his potentials and the fact that “yes, of a truth, he can make a difference” in the Forth coming electoral dispensation. Delta state needs a leader […]

By Ocheni Christopher As Nigeria marks the Mental Health Awareness Month this May, there is a growing but under-acknowledged crisis. As far back as 2018, an estimated 14.3 million Nigerians between the ages of 15 and 64 were reported to have used drugs, with about 3 million living with drug use disorders, according to the United Nations […]

By Tosin Shobukola By all appearances, Artificial Intelligence feels distant, complex, even intimidating to many nigerian businesses. For some, it is a vague concept wrapped in buzzwords. For others, it is something to fear, an intrusive force capable of replacing jobs or exposing private data. But beneath the surface of tools like ChatGPT lies a […]

I have been living in the trenches ever since I was born in this country called Nigeria.  The comfort zone has never been my portion

What is often referred to as “Western education” is better understood as a particular model of formal schooling that gained global prominence

Obasanjo said something that every Nigerian already knows in their hearts, but that too few leaders have been willing to state plainly

At the base of the AI economy is not software. It is infrastructure. Land, energy, and power form the backbone