By Celsus Ohain It’s another season of gubernatorial aspirations in Edo State and the league of aspirants is growing by the day, with each of the aspirants moving on with its own ‘Roman mob’. This is not unusual in a democracy; it is perfectly normal and accords with the tenets of the game. However, certain […]
By Ismail Abdulaziz On assumption of office, President Bola Tinubu’s administration made its intention clear to rejig the nation’s ailing economy and make it robust enough to engender the development and growth of Nigeria. A few months into the four-year tenure of the administration, it has initiated many programmes to drive the economy towards growth. […]
By Celsus E. Ohain Astute and foremost U.S. Diplomat and Scholar, Henry Kissinger once described ‘strategy’ as ‘the mode of survival of a society’. Survival here may relate to economy, politics, social relevance and environment. You may the ask: Who threatens the survival of who? This can only be answered, not in absolute. But in […]
By Prof. Kehinde Yusuf President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Yoruba ethnic group has an interesting proverb about ascendancy: Eni t’ó bá ma ga, esè rè á tínrín. (‘He who would be tall cannot avoid having thin legs.’) Being tall here is the metaphor for recording the highest levels of achievement or reaching the highest rungs on […]
By Abdulwarees Solanke It is, indeed, troubling that most noble reform ideas, initiatives, projects and programmes are never welcome. Soon after the commencement of implementation, they ran into a glitch. They get abandoned. What the government spent billions of dollars on in publicity and publications campaigns and rallies are soon consigned into waste bins of […]
By Atanda Kola Dear Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, I am writing on behalf of the Concern Peoples of Lagos Mainland (CPM) concerning menace of Danfo Drivers. I sincerely express my profound gratitude, unalloyed loyalty and support to your leadership and that of your party, All Progressive Congress (APC). Lagos mainland has been consistent in terms of […]
By Abdulwarees Solanke In the UNESCO publication, Banerjee and Seneviratne acknowledged that structures governing PSB vary considerably between nations. Their reference to the composition of the BBC Board of Governors is quite revealing and exemplary. In the United Kingdom, the BBC has been constituted as a largely autonomous legal entity with a Board of Governors […]
By Abdulwarees Solanke Last week, the Federal Government, through a press release from the Presidency announced sweeping changes in the leadership of the federal public service information system. The news organisations included the Voice of Nigeria (VON), the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria, APCON and the Nigerian Press Council. […]
By Abdulwarees Solanke As Nigeria marks its 63rd independent anniversary and 60 as a republic, Abdulwarees Solanke asks when really, is a nation a nation? With a new dawn rising, we are at another milestone on our journey to nationhood. As auspicious as the day marking 63 of our political independence is, we must critically […]
By Abdulwarees Solanke I have been called upon to elaborate on HOPE, a word that is open in definition and in common everyday use. “I hope to..”; “I have hope in…”; “I’m hopeful of…”; “I’m full of hope that….” In the perspective of grammarians, hope is either used as a verb, as a noun or […]