The Three Musketeers and the Lone Ranger: Two great African families
Suave, exact, and unbothered. Where Ronald sees the piece, Gilbert sees the puzzle, and, more importantly, sees how the pieces lock
Managing oneself in the Digital Age
In today’s ever varying marketplace, one wonders: How do we manage oneself in the digital age? Most businesses believe that they have a digital presence but it is not sufficient for them to just have a website and a few social channels. To have an overall digital marketing presence, one must stand against the competition, and more significantly, drive more clientele to their business
Niger Delta: Imperative of intellectual militancy
“The fact that man knows right from wrong Proves his intellectual superiority to the Other creatures; but the fact that he can Do wrong proves his moral inferiority To any creature that cannot.” -Mark Twain THE anecdotal portrayal of Greek mythologist and substantiated by an Urhobo adage, explicitly posits that, “When a hunter of antelopes, […]
Okowa, DESOPADEC and vested interests
IT was Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the former Central Bank Governor (now Emir of Kano) who in January 2014 enriched our political lexicon with the coinage of the term Vested Interests. At a youth summit geared towards national rebirth and renewal, Mallam Sanusi declared that Nigeria can only become great when as a people we “overcome the fear of vested interests.”
Nigerian football and the albatross of technical deficiency (2)
Being the concluding part of an opinion by Paddy Ezeala. The first part was published last week. Read on: A technical analysis of our semi-final exit against Senegal in Mali 2002, against Tunisia in Tunisia 2004, against Cote d’Ivoire in Egypt 2006, and against Ghana in Angola 2010 will reveal in-depth tactical deficiencies on the part […]
Behold the Kuru declaration
IT was with the best of intentions that President Olusegun Obasanjo ordered the fourth retreat for Ministers and Permanent Secretaries at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, Jos between February 23rd and 25th, 2001.
