In the current campaign season, there have been a lot of emphases on issue-based campaigns from especially various stakeholders. One of the reasons this columnist presumes why the calls have been resonant is that, in a fragile polity such as ours, a descent into bedlam, hate speeches, indecent language can easily fray the fabric of […]
Any politician who tells you that it will be easy to rebuild governance in 2023 (after the elections) is either lying to you or does not understand what job he has gotten Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, 14th Emir of Kano, at the Kaduna Investment Summit on October 14, 2022 Two recent events; first, the hard hitting […]
In order not to sound like a killjoy, let me begin by congratulating all the distinguished citizens of Nigeria, and “Friends of Nigeria,” who were decorated with national honours of various categories on Tuesday this week at the International Conference Centre, FCT, Abuja. In point of fact, this year’s list of honourees is refreshingly diversified […]
This week, education is very much in the air. First, with the celebration of World Teachers’ Day on Wednesday and second, with the ongoing and over seven-month strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities. Regrettably, World Teachers’ Day has been converted into ceremonies characterised by marches and official rhetoric, promising to upgrade the welfare […]
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