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INEC and the road to 2027

By Ayo Ododo There are probably few jobs in Nigeria more thankless than conducting an election. The winner thinks he won because the people loved him. The loser is often convinced he lost because somebody somewhere tampered with the process. Between the two stands the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), praised by one side, condemned […]
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Over five centuries, Ijaws still enslaved

DEVELOPMENTAL enslavement is historically the worst form of underdevelopment anywhere in the globe. From 1480 – 2016, the Ijaws, statistically the fourth largest ethnic group in Nigeria, are still in the firm grip of developmental enslavement in Nigeria. This explains why emancipation struggles by the Ijaws have put on a Marxist and revolutionary colouration in the Niger Delta. 536 years is enough for any group to appropriate and adopt confrontational philosophy in the struggle to break this suffocating enclosure.

Atiku and Nigeria’s power problem

MOST people would not dispute a high mark for former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as a public speaker. Or the quality of his interventions on national issues, like his speech at the public presentation of We are all Biafrans, a book by the Nigerian journalist and activist Chido Onumah, held at the Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja, on May 31, 2016.

Truth about power supply

IN terms of the cause of poor electricity supply ravaging the nation presentlya blunt statement from the the office of the Minister of Power, Works and Housing , Mr. Raji Fashola, provided an answer . The statement which was issued by one of his aides stated that it was immoral to expect the Federal government to blame electricity distribution companies called Discos for the poor electricity supply in the nation .

Digital: Opportunities for businesses to recreate growth models

The magnitude of change Andrew Grove, former Chairman of Intel Corporation, in his classic, Only the Paranoid Survive, provides a fresh perspective to Michael Porter’s ‘5 Forces’ analytical model.1 He articulates the possibility of a ‘10X’ magnitude force of change to Porter’s ‘5 Forces’ variables, such that the changes the variables provide to a business are not incremental.

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