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 […]
NYSC: Ibrahim, Buhari’s vision for Nigerian youths
By David Onmeje The appointment of Brig Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim, a renowned military scholar and administrator of repute as the Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) penultimate week by President Muhammadu Buhari has come with a lot of expectations and hope for revitalized national service scheme. Certainly, it is clear to all Nigerians […]
The political deceit behind failure to restructure Nigeria
AGITATIONS for restructuring Nigeria are long-running, recurring and persistent. The clamour is, in fact, so persistent that, since Nigeria returned to civil rule in 1999, no government or ruling party has been able to ignore it.
Buhari’s new cabinet and need for engineers
‘PUT your money where your mouth is,” is a 19th century American adage that has and will continue to haunt Nigeria until we start matching our voices with our choices. Before we knew it four years have gone with the wind, and we are still complaining of poor electricity with just about 3000MW (around 1999 figures) from the system operator.
Emeka Ihedioha, err on side of caution
Sampson Chuks This piece is not intended to debase anyone but to point out the negative analogical effects of inhabiting in a mosquito/cockroach infested building on the one side and associating with certain person(s) or group of persons on the other side. In succinct and clearer explication, it tells us how associating with certain people […]
Re: ‘On the ‘lie-gend of Buratai:’ When reason deserts a critic
By Okanga Agila I least knew the concept of the book “ The Legend of Buratai,” authored Dr Abubakar Mohammed Sani would elicit excitingly robust attention. It is a fictional narrative of the daring escapades of Nigerian soldiers led by the irrepressible and craggy soldier, the incumbent Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lt. Gen. Tukur […]
