Beyond Giving: How companies can use corporate philanthropy to build stronger, self-sustaining communities
By Sam Ogbemi Daibo For decades, the relationship between companies and their host communities in Nigeria has largely been defined by projects. A company builds a classroom, renovates a health centre, provides boreholes, awards scholarships or rehabilitates a road. These interventions can be valuable. They meet real needs and often improve lives. But after decades […]
Tireless warrior now rests: Chief Arthur Nwankwo (1939 – 2020)
With the passage of Chief (Dr) Arthur Nwankwo, Nigeria has lost one of our foremost voices of reason, modern-day griots, and patriots. True to his traditional title ‘Ikeogu’, he was a tireless fighter on the side of truth and justice, until he answered the call from heaven, and now takes a well-deserved rest. I first […]
Autogas: Story of transition to more sustainable future
With the Federal Government’s bold strides in the transition to autogas as an alternative and eco-friendlier fuel, from the adverse impacts of petrol and diesel as conventional fuels, Nigeria certainly appears determined in engaging with the realities of the times we live in. This is not only in terms of taking its climate response actions […]
Emenike Ihekwaba: Not yet a cold case
By Zerry Ihekwaba IMO River is known to swallow those who misjudge its depth, as anyone would expect any river of its size and flow to do. But for a strange circumstance and unclear mission, its namesake and southeastern Imo State, a territorial habitat of predominantly Ndigbo, several years, took the ill reputation of a […]
Female judicial officers: Wike’s positive example
By Emmanuel Aziken WHEN Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State on Thursday, December 3, 2020 travelled more than 290 kilometres to attend the valedictory court session in honour of the retiring Justice Tinuade Akomolafe-Wilson in Benin, it again reminded many of the governor’s proclivity towards the wellbeing of judicial officers. Honouring a retiring judicial officer […]
Lagos East by-elections – a vote of confidence in Sanwo-Olu’s govt
As the euphoria generated by the peaceful conduct and the unassailable victory of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in the recent by-elections in the Lagos East Senatorial District and Kosofe 2 of the Lagos State House of Assembly, continues to reverberate throughout the nation, the eloquent message therein should not be lost on all and sundry.
