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 […]
2027: Time to break Ogun West’s 49-year jinx
By Kayode Oladele For nearly five decades, Ogun West has lived under a shadow. Since the creation of Ogun State in 1976, the governorship has rotated between Ogun Central and Ogun East, leaving the good people of Ogun West Senatorial District excluded from the top seat at Oke-Mosan. This glaring imbalance has hardened into what […]
The renewed push for a cleaner, safer and healthier Lagos
By AJAYI LUKMAN With over three million cars and 100,000 commercial vehicles on the roads (when the national average is 11 vehicles per kilometer), Lagos daily records an average of 227 vehicles per kilometre of roads. Lagos is home to about 2,000 industrial complexes, 10,000 commercial ventures, and 22 industrial estates. It accounts for over 60 […]
Dennis Otuaro’s story and Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda
Chief Dr. Dennis Otuaro is well known in all the communities that make up the Niger Delta
The North-Western question: Unfixability and consequences
By AMINU JAHUN If one could sub-regionalise the multidimensional challenges in the North, they could be reduced to the North-Eastern and North-Western Questions, because the North-Central challenges are extensions of both. Senator Adams Oshiomhole’s televised contribution during a Senate Committee session, and Governor Lawal Dare’s my hands are tied expose on insecurity in Zamfara State, reinforced by […]
Immunisation: Fighting misinformation with facts to save Under-5s
By BUNMI TEJUMOLA Misinformation enslaves the people, makes caregivers, parents, hesitant about immunisation uptake and right information saves children, especially under fives. Out of every five children that are under five years, one has zero dose. That is to say one of the five has not gotten immunised at all in Nigeria… Therefore, it is important […]
