Opinion

I am a relatively young man, I know little about history and I won’t even pretend to lie or conjure up irrelevant and funny stories about the past just to deceive people as some others have tried to do...

Who is a leader? What is the definition of a leader? According to The New Webster’s Dictionary, a leader is “someone who acts as a guide….a conductor of a group”. A good leader is therefore someone who guides his...

The August edition of the celebrated Guest Writer Session inadvertently coincided with the national convention of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP). Given the over-zealous security lockdown associated with the latter’s events, there was a lot of anxiety as to whether...

Everyone has a right to a university degree, even if it’s in Hamburger Technology. - Clive James The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. - Diogenes Laertius For those uncouth MBBS graduates who will be reading this,...

Of late, the nation’s political space has been inundated with several political reports and commentaries on the person of Barr. Ezenwo Nyesom Wike, the Minister of State for Education. If he travels to his home-state for a weekend, his...

After taking over the reins of leadership, Senator Bala Mohammed had made a sincere pledge to improve all sectors in the FCT; this is inclusive of the provision of clean portable water to the Capital City and its environs,...

A lecturer, Dr Kayode Esuola, on Monday said the dividends of democracy would elude Nigerians if politicians continued to ``play politics of rancour, tribalism and sentiments. ``A political culture of not playing politics by the rules of the game...

Followers of style and policy drive of the State of Osun's Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola should by now known that he holds two programmes - Education and Agriculture - tenaciously dear to his heart, out of the six policy...

The origin of the Igbo people is a mystery and a subject of greater controversy, more controversial than that of every other ethnic group in Nigeria and probably in Africa. There are so many versions of Igbo origin and it...

...Making the investments needed to end poverty Africa’s impressive growth record over the past decade has replaced previous headlines of a “hopeless” continent to ones of a “rising” Africa. The continent has been home to some of the fastest growing...