Beyond Giving: How companies can use corporate philanthropy to build stronger, self-sustaining communities
By Sam Ogbemi Daibo For decades, the relationship between companies and their host communities in Nigeria has largely been defined by projects. A company builds a classroom, renovates a health centre, provides boreholes, awards scholarships or rehabilitates a road. These interventions can be valuable. They meet real needs and often improve lives. But after decades […]
Urhobos Senatorial Tsunami
A typical Delta pidgin goes this way:“Play play naim de turn to eat and go”. The Delta Central Senatorial by- election which took place on October 12, 2003 turned out to be such that most people in Delta felt the APC, a party that had nothing on ground and the DPP decided to change the fortune of the Urhobo Nation by coming back in their droves to vote PDP and reclaim the glory which the PDP lost narrowly in 2011 to DPP
Still on Nigeria’s membership of the Security Council
WITHOUT doubts, Nigeria occupies prominent position on the enviable list of nations that have contributed and are still contributing to world peace.
First Lady, the Abuja women rally
THE Nigerian Women Mega Rally has come and gone but the memory of the epoch making event will continue to linger in the hearts of not only women, but others in Nigeria.
On racism, ethnicism and the Nigerian state
Racism and ethnicism serve the same purpose: that of bias in favour of their kind. The only difference is that racism is more associated with colour ( ie white, black and so on ); ethnicism deals with the ethnic and cultural roots.
Tear down education’s brick walls and think e!
In today’s educational environment, Information Communication Technology, ICT, provides the best opportunities for developing countries to catch up with the developed world and provide its citizens with greater opportunities than ever before.
