Opinion

Who is afraid of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s nominee for the soon-to-be-vacant post of Director General (DG) of the World Trade Organization (WTO)? I ask this question because over the weekend, her media adviser, my long-time

By Bilyaminu Kong-kol The objective of communication is, indisputably to attain a desired result; definitely for it to serve the purpose for which it is ...

By Emmanuel Ike-Jonathan, JP. Worried by the many challenges facing the Nigerian state in her developmental strides in various sectors of the economy, the Federal ...

You may pretty well say that Nsukka Pepper’s (Ose Nsukka) fame precedes it in a literal sense, even in cities located hundreds of kilometres away from its provenance. In grocery stalls or open markets, these bright

By Reginald Onabu Culture separates, yet connects, the world. People are either pulled together or else separated by their cultures. The impact of culture is ...

The challenge of providing good nutrition is global. In many instances, it is multidimensional. In Nigeria today, there is no part of the country, segment ...

  By Bala Ibrahim There is a popular saying that politics is dirty, but perhaps the dirt of politics becomes more poignant when painted on ...

      By Engr. Chibuike Ifeanya Ignorance they say is a disease. It is indeed a disease. It is one of the major sicknesses ...

Abimbola Adelakun On Tuesday, Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, and his colleagues urged the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) “to ...

This matter of making the Stamp Duty (and by implication tax revenue) the next black gold has occupied my mind even long before I was appointed the Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service.

Except something else occurs that grabs the headlines and dominates Nigerian social media, the big news of the past week would probably be the death of Senator Abiola Ajimobi and the political drama that it has generated.

In the 21st century, rating effective leadership is now based on leaders’ possession of “soft skills”. Leadership today is no longer rated by intimidating or swaying charisma like that of Adolf Hitler. Soft skills,

I have just read a hatchet work titled, "Governor Ugwuanyi and His Anti-Midas Touch", written by a hired hand hiding under the pseudonym, Edwin Ugwuanyi. Like all hatchet works, the real intent of the writer and his sponsors

My friend, Ezugwu Okike 's write up about the ongoing beautification project at the Okpara Square Park is a thriller to the uncritical and uninformed reader who would not easily recognise that the persuasiveness