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 […]
Boko Haram, ISWAP: General Buratai and spiritual warfare
By Obadiah Mailafia Last week, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, raised a lot of eyebrows when he advocated the use of prayers and “spiritual warfare” in the war against terrorist groups such as Boko Haram and the Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP). Interestingly enough, “spiritual warfare” was not on the curriculum […]
Nigeria’s sovereignty and the exemplary leadership of Nigerian Army
By Esther Okpabi The security architecture in Nigeria is such that it revolves around the operations of the Nigerian Army. I say this for the simple fact that since 2015, and with the advent of the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, the Nigerian Army has indeed risen to the occasion in times too numerous to […]
A peep into the life of a stylish and corporate lawyer, Eyimofe Atake
The name Eyimofe Atake rings a bell in legal circles in and outside Nigeria. The highly cerebral Atake didn’t just drop from the skies without traces. As a matter of fact, he is the son of Honourable Justice Franklin Oritse-Mueyiwa Atake, a Judge of the High Court of Mid-western Nigeria (1967-1977), and a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1979-1982).
Make Nigeria great, returnee ministers
FOR the returnee ministers, it is welcome back. You are among the chosen men and women from 200million Nigerians to drive the society and prosper it, to manage the nation’s resources and wealth beneficially to create a better life for the population. You are returned for your worthiness, especially the ‘super minister’, Mr. B. R. Fashola. You are all appreciated.
Dapo Abiodun cuts travel time between Sango-Ota and Lagos
Sango-Ota may not be as big as Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, in terms of landmass or as large as Ijebu Ode or even Sagamu in terms of population. But it is one of the largest contributors to the economy of Ogun State. Sango-Ota has been able to affect the economy of Ogun positively taking the advantage of its proximity to Lagos, the nation’s commercial capital. Whereas Lagos is apparently over populated, people from the various parts of the country continue to troop to the former federal capital on daily basis in search of the proverbial golden fleece. It is therefore not unexpected that residents who are feeling choked in Lagos are relocating to neighbouring towns. Sango-Ota is among the neighbouring towns. And it is not only residents that are relocating from Lagos to Sango-Ota.
