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 […]
The Chavez in Aregbesola
THE poor kid from the plains, Hugo Chavez transited a week ago. In response, a large swathe of humanity stood still.
The war against Rochas Okorocha
THE impetus for this essay rests on the contents of the front-page news-story in the Daily Sun of Friday, March 8, 2013 entitled, “Imo: APGA unveils plot to sack Okorocha, Speaker”. According to this news report, the ImoState chapter of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, has alleged a plot by the Presidency and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to sack the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha and to distort the activities of the Imo State House of Assembly.
Auctioneers and Buyers of Igbo Presidency
Political debates are hitting up Nigeria for the 2015 presidential elections. The debates are divided among regions, political divides and individuals in the country.
PDP BoT: Anenih’s second coming
It is hardly surprising that Chief Tony Anenih, patriarch of the defunct Social Democratic Party, SDP, and Leader of leaders of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has gone back into battle immediately after accepting to be the Chairman of the PDP Board of Trustees -to wit; to reposition the party for the challenges of the future.
Deconstructing the Anenih loyalty paradigm
THE only song he knows is loyalty. Complete loyalty. Not half measure. It is either one is 100 percent loyal or one is not loyal. Not even 99.99 percent loyalty is good enough in his estimation.
