The moral optics: Rippling effects
Nigeria's crisis today is often described in economic, political or security terms. But beneath the inflation figures, rising cost of living, insecurity, unemployment and institutional distrust lies another crisis that deserves greater attention: the challenge of maintaining public confidence in standards of conduct, accountability and leadership.
Blundered past, xenophobia and diplomatic crossroads
THE Nigeria – South Africa Relations has displayed two contrasting faces over the last three decades or so. Nigeria’s flamboyant and frenetic African relations consistently reflect a strong sense of cooperation, solidarity and intoxicating big brother role; in contrast, South Africa speaks about Nigeria with unrealistic political ambiguities and diplomatic insensibility.
The current face-off or stand-off over xenophobic attacks on Nigerian citizens and other African nationals has raised tensions in Nigeria-South Africa Relations at citizens – to – citizens engagement.
Has N1 trn MTN fine worsened South Africa’s xenophobia?
UNTIL Nigerians learn to face truth and learn to live with it, we will continue to delude ourselves and subsequently get stuck in the habit of making poor judgements based on faulty analyses of situations.
Tamed insecurity as Buhari’s 100-days statement
By Idoko Ainoko One issue the opposition use to campaign against President Muhammadu Buhari in the election that held in March this year is the issue of security. They cited continued Boko Haram threats, commercial scale kidnap for ransoms, banditry, ritual related killings, ethno-sectarian strife, and other forms of criminality that undermine the safety of […]
Boosting education through SBMC synergy
THESE were the words of a British statesman, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, who was a two-time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and 1951 to 1955. Arguably, the capacity to combine the two ways of thinking: creative and critical thinking equips one to produce robust actions. Whilst creative thinking looks at problems or situations from a fresh perspective to conceive of something novel or unusual, the latter looks at ideas by discerning and deciding how realistic they actually are.
Questioning LADOL’s Indigenous Status
It is no longer news that a company called LILE (LADOL Integrated Logistics Enterprise) which is a duly registered company in the British Virgin Islands owns the Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics Base (LADOL).
