Why prosperity governance and management challenges the foundations of development
By Victor-Bandele Dada Humanity has accumulated extraordinary knowledge. It has mastered technologies that transform agriculture, medicine, industry, communication and transportation. It can mobilise enormous financial resources, manipulate materials at molecular levels and connect distant populations instantaneously. Yet hunger persists beside agricultural abundance. Unemployment coexists with unmet human needs. Resource-rich communities remain impoverished, while governments struggle […]
El-Zakzaky’s comic dance in India
By Abraham Otigba Following the abrupt end to the medical vacation of the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheik Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, there have been reactions from all angles, but it all looks like comic relief. Nollywood, Nigeria’s home movie industry is getting enriched every day, with new actors and actresses. I love […]
More of the centrifugal than the centripetal
THE theories of the physicists and mathematicians of the 17th century concerning the dynamics of the motion of objects best illustrate the condition of the Nigerian state of the 21st century. The two striking figures of the age – the English scientist, Isaac Newton and the Dutch mathematician, Christian Huygens – led man into their complex findings in their study of the force that drives the movement of inanimate bodies, terrestrial, stratospheric or ionospheric.
Development in focus as Sanwo-Olu inaugurates cabinet
IN fulfilling his electioneering promise that his cabinet would be constituted within 100 days of his government, Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, recently released the first batch of 25 nominees to occupy cabinet-ranked positions in the state.
FG and dormancy of HIV/AIDS anti-discrimination law
It is indeed worrisome that an Act which was enacted five years ago is yet to be implemented and complied with
El-Zakzaky’s ‘one chance’ trip to India
By Philip Agbese The supremo of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheik Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, finally had his wish to travel abroad for medical treatment granted. This should ordinarily have been a good development, especially in a country where the perception is that getting treatment abroad is the ultimate when healthcare is concerned. But for […]
