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OPINION: BUHARI, ONITSHA FIRE INCIDENT AND THE POWER OF EMPATHY

The recent Ochanja fire incident in Onitsha, in which a petrol laden tanker exploded into balls of fire after ramming into buildings in the Upper Iweka axis of the city, has brought untold grief to those affected but also...

OPINION: IS THE PROPOSED NIPOST MICRO-FINANCE BANK; GOVERNMENT’s SURE AVENUE OF EMPOWERING THE RURAL POOR IN NIGERIA?

If the report credited to the Postmaster General of the federation, Barrister Bisi Adegbuyi, on September 29, 2019, that abandoned offices of the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) spread across the 774 local government areas in Nigeria will henceforth serve as microfinance...

OPINION: NIGERIAN STUDENTS: PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES AND THE CIRCLE OF FEES

If the time-honoured aphorism which considers education as the bedrock of development is anything to go by and if the age-long believe that; with sound educational institutions, a country is as good as made - as the institutions will turn out all...

OPINION: TRUDEAU: SECOND CHANCE FOR A GLOBAL LEADER

No gainsaying the notorious truth that the election of the Republican outsider and the maverick billionaire Mr. Donald Trump about four years ago as the 45th president of the United States of America changed the global dynamics in the area of...

OPINION: UGANDAN STUDENTS TURN WASTE TO WEALTH

St. Kizito High School students earn money from recycling. Namugongo is a lush, forested community in central Uganda where tall trees are home to colourful birds and noisy monkeys. The community has a tragic place in history: on 3 June...

OPINION: NIGERIANS SHALL NOT LIVE ON RICE ALONE

President Muhammadu Buhari's ''rice revolution'' is laudable. Before the ''crop rebellion'', Nigeria spent about $1.65 billion annually importing rice from Thailand and India. But the country is not yet home and dry in food production. In December 2018, Godwin Emefiele,...

OPINION: HEDA RESOURCE CENTRE ON RECOVERY OF ILLICIT FUNDS AND ASSETS

‘Our enemies are the political profiteers, the swindlers, the men in high and low places that seek bribes and demand ten percent; those that seek to keep the country divided permanently so that they can remain in office as...

OPINION: HOW ETHNICITY WILL DESTROY NIGERIA

Who will rescue Nigeria from the clutch of ethnic venom that is gradually but steadily being secreted by ethnic nationalists through their actions and behavioral disposition? I have opted to refrain from specific examples in this write up to water...

OPINION RESHAPING THE FORCES: SOUTH AFRICA’S DEFENCE AND MILITARY VETERANS MINISTER, MAPISA-NQAKULA

South Africa’s Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, Nosiviwe Noluthando Mapisa-Nqakula, remembers the day she walked into a conference of defence ministers, confident and ready for deliberations, and realized that her counterparts, mostly men, thought she was just an...

OPINION: GOWON AT 85 AND FANI-KAYODE

General Yakubu Gowon, Nigeria's military Head of State from 1966 -1975, turned 85 on Saturday, October 19, 2019. In a congratulatory message, President Muhammadu Buhari described him as a living legend and a symbol of national unity. The statement...

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