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 […]
The eviction of Donald Trump
By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu If you don’t pay your rent, you get evicted from the house. Whether you are living in a face-me-I-face-you hellhole in Ajegunle or in the super-duper White House is immaterial. Once the rent is expired, the man living there is also expired. That is the trouble with the big man that […]
TRIBUTE TO MALLAM UMARU ALTINE: First elected mayor of Enugu(1952 – 1958)
The story of Nigeria is a deep, intriguing and enchanting metaphor. Its glorious past had contradicted sharply with its current political corundum. A Fulani man from Sifawa in Sokoto Caliphate – Mallam Umaru Altine, had in 1952 become elected as the first Mayor of the City of Enugu, the heart land and heartbeat of the Igbo Nation.
Seinde signature berths at Lekki, Lagos
By Ikechukwu Agada History is made as Seinde-Signature opens world-class Fragrance Studio at the 11th floor, Oriental Hotel, Lekki-Lagos. The studio which is a first of its kind in Nigeria boasts of over 1000 carefully selected fragrances from the best brands and perfumers all over the world. Ranging from designers, niche amongst other digital collections, […]
Adieu, Uncle Bisi Lawrence, man of garb, grit, guts
By Ikeddy ISIGUZO THE only thing immaculate about Uncle Bisi Lawrence – who passed Wednesday 11 November 2020 – was not his white attire. He was a man of garb, grit, and guts who lived a fulfilled life that flowed to others – I was one of them. BizLaw, as many called him, after one […]
Nigerian youth, social media and the gathering storm
By Jerome-Mario Utomi The easy accessibility individuals have to publish ideas on the Internet has led to the emergence of a new meritocracy of ideas that is similar in some ways to the public forum that existed during the time of America’s founding. It has several structural characteristics that make it particularly useful and powerful […]
