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Mascot Kalu: Rallying point for the youth

Not until he returned to Nigeria from the United States of America (USA) in 2007, many people who never had contact with Hon. Mascot Uzor Kalu, former Chief of Staff, Abia State government, didn’t know…

Edo 2020: Oshiomhole’s burden marketing Ize-Iyamu

Edo 2020: Oshiomhole’s burden marketing Ize-Iyamu

I f politics were mathematics, in which two plus two equals four, it would have been game over for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the September 19, 2020 governorship election in Edo State.  …

What Awolowo could have taught Hushpuppi

What Awolowo could have taught Hushpuppi

C hief Obafemi Awolowo was born on the 6th of March in 1909 while Ramoni Igbalode’s birth date is quoted as the 14th of June, 1988. In between these two birthdates something went terribly wrong…

The task before N-Power entrepreneurs

The task before N-Power entrepreneurs

O f all the challenges of unemployment in Nigeria, none has been as problematic as ensuring that the youth are productively engaged. Apart from saving the youth from crime and anti-social behaviour, youth unemployment has…

Magu’s saga: Beyond the facts

Magu’s saga: Beyond the facts

Carl Umegboro The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu was last month recommended for removal from office by the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mr.…

Tinubu and the latter-day Nostradamus

Tinubu and the latter-day Nostradamus

Some people never learn but I will tender to them a word of sound advice in hope that some degree of civility and good sense will find its way to them. It is not wise…

Oshiomhole and the magnitude of his politics

Oshiomhole and the magnitude of his politics

In a season of partisan frenzy, with many red-eyed politicians focused on various power-grab projects, discipline, party supremacy and rule-governed processes become threatened, as it was in the enclave of the governing All Progressives Congress…

UI ranking and search for merit-based VC

UI ranking and search for merit-based VC

University of Ibadan, the premier university, has again emerged as the best in the country and in the top 20 in Africa. Indices of global university ranking could be contested but it no doubt reveals…

COVID-19: Forgotten past of history

COVID-19: Forgotten past of history

The current pandemic will become history some day; the time is what we don’t know. It was George Santayana who once said “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” History tells…

The travails of Nigerian political godfathers (1)

The travails of Nigerian political godfathers (1)

Political godfatherism is a bad ‘business’ in Nigeria. Perhaps, the ‘badness’ of ‘godfatherism flows from its essence defined by Chambers Dictionary as “the head of a criminal group, especially in the mafia.” So godfatherism relates…