WHY should Mallam Nasir el Rufai reveal so much confidential information, behind the scene deals and political melodrama in his Accidental Public Servant book?

IN consequentialist ethics it is posted with mathematical exactitude that deontological and axiological rudiments are critically crucial for leadership success, organisational efficiency and institutional progress. Hence, the leadership and institutions fail when they lack this foundational equipoise. Is this what is happening to the Okpe Union?

I GUESS it was bound to happen sooner or later. The magical novelty of electing a new Pope while the other one who is our friend and brother is still alive is beginning to wane. Regardless, the mystery and splendour of the Vatican are still intact.

INDEED, this President and his forebears in the ruling behemoth have collectively mismanaged – in the last 13 years – the hopes of Nigerians and brought the nation into impecunious status through unprecedented corruption and profligacy. With N2.67tr and N1.05tr said to have been spent on fuel subsidy in 2011 and 2012 respectively, this administration […]

WHEN the Transworld Airbus began its final descent, trepidation trailed human expectancy. Then the Luxury Qartar Plane en-route Doha, Landed safely at Heathrow Airport, ending the second trunk of a 14-hour flight that started in Lagos on a warm bright Saturday, 7:45pm.

By Deepak Kuntawala When looking to expand a business to an international level, the main issue for many is establishing a reliable, accountable and affordable supply chain network. The task of trading in international markets without the right financial support and contacts can be daunting, add into this various risks, the demand risk, the supply […]

AS the flurry of political activities start to gather momemtum in Anambra state in readiness for the 2014 governorship election, several gladiators from the serious minded to the charlatans have started creating awareness, even though subtly on their aspirations. Some even want their faces seen on the streets of the state just for effect, while some choose to use the opportunity to massage their ego.

TROJAFUIT is a latin word that means “Troy was, Troy is no more”.It illustrates a city that once was but is no more. Troy is a city according to Greek legend that was captured by the Greeks under Agamemnon after a ten-year siege.

THE University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Literature 301 (African Fiction) Class was weeks late in starting for the 1980/81 academic year. On the fourth week, the students had gathered as usual even before it was time for the class.

WHEN the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua on November 1, 2007 laid the foundation stone for the construction of the 140 megawatts Aba power plant to be constructed by a private power company, Geometric Power Systems Limited, at the plant site in Osisioma-Ngwa, Abia State, not many Nigerians believed that the project would materialize.

All too often the state is tempted into activities to which it is either ill-suited or which are beyond its capabilities. Perhaps the greatest of these temptations is government’s desire to concentrate economic power in its own hands. It begins to believe that it knows how to manage business. But let me tell you, it doesn’t as we discovered in Britain in the 1970s when nationalisation and prices and incomes policy together deprived management of the ability to manage. And when we came to privatise and deregulate in the 1980s it took some time before these skills returned.

Life they say begins at 40, but for me, your life begins at 60. As a husband,your tender care, support and encouragement at all times, has proved to me and our lovely children that you are still very young at heart and with passion for love.

IN 2009, members of Jama’atu Ahlis Sunnah Lid dawa’ati wal Jihad (Boko Haram) had cause to challenge the Nigeria Police for the alleged extra-judicial killing of their members for ‘refusing’ to obey a simple state law of wearing crush helmet while on a motor bike in Maiduguri.This snowballed to a global disgrace and threat to peace within the West African sub-region.

Plans to reinvent the defunct Unity Party of Nigeria, UPN raises dust in the Southwest as the hierarchy of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN allege it is another strategy of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to undermine it in its stronghold.

AT the twilight of the sixth session of the National Assembly, Patrick Obahiagbon (who represented Oredo Federal Constituency on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP) switched platform in a bid to ensure his political survival.