BY SOLOMON NDEMAnother make-up story here again. When will the ALL Progressives Party stop chasing shadows? And whoever is writing this assassination script is not intelligent enough. Firstly, the intention of hired assassins is to kill. If that is the case, how can hired assassins that have the opportunity to kill their victims decide to shoot the leg instead. Is [...]
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Tony Attah, the managing director and CEO of Nigeria LNG Limited, biggest sub-Sahara African single investment, speaks with BusinessWorld's Nik Ogbulie on the expansion of Africa’s premier gas plant and a range of other issuesA few weeks ago some members of the European missions in Nigeria visited your company. What was the purpose?My assumption is that you are referring to [...]
BY GBENGA ADEOSUNIn 2019, Nigerians will troop to the polls in their large numbers to participate in the sixth general elections since the return of modern democracy to the nation in 1999. Taking predominance as usual is the most keenly contested and most significant of all, the Presidential elections which will hold on Saturday 19th February 2019. With the conclusion [...]
BY ‘SOLA FAGORUSI and NWACHUKWU KELECHUKWUIn Nigeria where everything related to sexuality is shrouded in darkness, little is known about sexuality education. Not much is taught in the classrooms, far too little is heard at home. When it comes to matters around sexuality, many teenagers learn from the Internet or friends. This also applies to issues about Female Genital Mutilation [...]
BY BANJO DAMILOLAThe sun was at its scorching best. It was a Saturday, a day when most people were either relaxing at home or attending function. However, parents clustered under a shade beside the black gate of Government College Victoria Island (GoCoVi) in Lagos — their faces a mix of excitement and exhaustion as they received their children who had [...]
BY AHMED A. AHMEDZamfara state has continued on a very controversial path, following the inability of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) to produce a candidate for the gubernatorial and legislative elections billed for February and March 2019. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had instructed that all parties in the country to conclude primary elections and have final candidates [...]
BY MIKE JOHNOne of the real difficulties that Nigeria is facing as a country is its failure to sustain its overflowing populace. This is regardless of its huge arable land for agribusiness and favourable climate all seasons. For sure, it is a mystery that nations that once in a while have downpours and those in total deserts have some way [...]
BY IDOKO AINOKOA fair assessment of Nigeria’s war against terrorism would look at what is presently on ground and perhaps make a month on month and year on year comparison. But even this is not an adequate measure of whatever success or lack of it that is being recorded since statistics have an uncanny way of getting the figures right [...]
BY CHIDIEBERE NWOBODOThe die is cast. The stage is set. History beckons. Nigerians are about to witness the fiercest political royal rumble in the annals of our political punditry come 2019. The primary election of former vice president Waziri Atiku Abubakar as formidable presidential candidate of the PDP has practically altered the entire political permutations cum matrix, as far as [...]
BY ADEMOLA O. FASHIKU If elections can be likened to heavyweight boxing contests, then the 2019 Presidential election will be a re-match of epic proportions. Already, the traffic we have seen across the political landscape, the overt and covert manoeuvres of the different gladiators – pretenders and contenders alike – and their cohorts foreshadow a set of compelling and interesting narratives [...]
BY EMMANUEL UGOJI Just as you will not easily notice when he is tensed up except you study him or when he is offended except you find out why he positions the cap on his head, it will be difficult to read his mood. It takes such understanding to read the mood of Atiku Abubakar at the 2018 PDP elective national [...]
BY PHILIP AGBESEWhen news filtered on the recovery of cars of victims from a mining pond in Dura Du, Jos, Plateau State, I was not surprised. I say this for two reasons. One is the fact that Du is an area made famous by the former governor of Plateau State, Da Jonah David Jang, who was regarded an ethnic champion [...]
BY PHRANK SHAIBU This past week marked a turning point in the nation’s political history. It was Atiku and all the news around his much-anticipated victory at the national convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which ended on Sunday in Port Harcourt. It is also the week that the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) affirmed President Muhammadu Buhari as its [...]
BY SUNDAY OSANYINTUYICertainly, Africa continues to face serious developmental challenges. Such challenges as dependency, corruption, underdeveloped infrastructure, poor leadership and backward governance, etc are some of the impediments to Africa's quest for sustainable and equitable development.In the past, attempts have been made by foreigners to tackle these challenges but these can only be solved by Africans.Prominent among these issues in Africa is our leadership deficiency. Most Africa [...]
BY BELLO MUHAMMAD SHARADE The crisis in Plateau has been ongoing for long. It involves Muslims and Non-Muslims or ethnic indigenous Berom and culturally Hausa-Fulani so-called aliens.Mass lives in hundreds if not in thousands were lost through circles of assaults, attacks, ambushes, rampages, riots, carnages, massacres and even genocides. Human lives is no more sacred, hard earned treasures are no more precious [...]
BY AKPAN JAMESGovernor Udom Emmanuel in just three years in office as the governor of Akwa Ibom State has improved the economy of the state by encouraging the development of small scale industries in the state. This stems from the governor’s belief that small firms are relevant and vital to the development of the state economy and not just the [...]
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