For many observers in Lagos, those recommendations sounded familiar. They are, in many respects, the same measures that have shaped the environmental policies of the Babajide Sanwo-Olu administration over the past several years.

By Moses Braimah “A government that spends more time explaining theopposition than explaining its achievements mayalready know where its real problem lies.” Nigeria is a fascinating country. Explain it to someone and watch them nod eagerly, only for them to confess moments later: “I still don’t understand.” If you claim to fully grasp Nigeria, you […]

By FRED CHUKWULOBE   As another July 10 comes around, public attention naturally returns to the dramatic abduction of Governor Chris Ngige in 2003, an event that remains one of the darkest episodes in Nigeria’s democratic history. But beyond the crisis itself, the date also brings back deeply personal memories of how I unexpectedly left journalism for […]

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By LADE BANDELE  How should a nation judge the performance of its health sector?” Public life has an odd way of allowing the loudest questions to eclipse the most important ones. A claim is made, a rebuttal follows, familiar positions harden, and attention gradually drifts from the matter under discussion to the argument surrounding it. Before […]

By Obi Asika, Director-General & CEO, National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC) We carry within us the origin of everything. That is not rhetoric — it is history, and it is the starting point of one of the most consequential economic arguments Africa has yet to make. Before we can build the cultural IP […]

By Tony Ugbejie The personality of His Excellency, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, former Delta state Governor, from his early days has not changed. In politics and as a private citizen he is a meek and loyal person, however what has really distinguished him from the pack is his deep intellect and his capacity to put in […]

How Argentina tore up Egypt’s cinderella story in one of the greatest matches of the tournament By Paul Lucky Okoku Near miss does not kill a bird. And in football, it ain’t over till the fat lady sings. I had my pen ready. Not to record another routine World Cup victory. Not to chronicle another […]

While Olaopa confidently declares that although he has worked with many highly  placed people in government, Walson-Jack’s collegial spirit is unrivalled

By Hajiya Fatima Y. Usman-Katsina Resilience is something I am quite familiar with. It’s about inner strength. It’s about looking inward, doing an internal deep-dive. It’s about determination and persistence, it’s about clarity of purpose. It is through this lens that I look at the world and at governance, and have come to the only […]

By Emmanuel Nzomiwu Although Dr. Michael Iheonukara Okpara died almost 42 years ago, the mention of his name in Nigeria today evokes memories of the agricultural and agro-industrial revolution in Eastern Nigeria in the 1950s and ’60s, during his days as the Premier of the former Eastern Region. During that glorious era, the Eastern Region ranked […]

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The Minister of Works, Sen. Dave Umahi, has blamed the flooding of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway on non-implementation of a Lagos State master plan with regard to flooding. Umahi also blamed the flooding on indiscriminate dumping of refuse by Lagos State residents. Umahi made the blame during an inspection tour of the Section Three of […]

By Yan Yuqing July 1 marks the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. China hold the celebration of the 105th founding anniversary of the CPC in Beijing. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, addresses in celebration that the CPC possesses incomparable fine qualities: The dedication to the […]