The third letter of the word leadership, for our purpose, signifies action. There is no doubt that leadership is all about action. It is the core responsibility of a leader to be active, not dormant or passive. As an actual ...
There is no doubt that this is the Buhari season and Nigerians are sufficiently afflicted. We are today divided between two opposing camps that now electrify the polity with their antics. On one side are the Buhariphiles, those who are ...
After love, the second component or letter of leadership is excellence. Defined by the Oxford Dictionary as “the quality of being outstanding or extremely good” (www.oxforddictionaries.com), excellence is what is unusually good or that which surpasses ordinary expectations and standards. ...
Anyone with a modicum of human feeling would be horrified by the orgy of violence and destruction that has enveloped the world making millions of people sad and sullen. Imagine the horrible life of the Syrians, once a happy and ...
Nigeria today faces an acute leadership crisis that has manifested in the unenviable state of the nation and our collective shame before the whole world. I always remember the aptness of the headline of an interview in the Daily Sun ...
Despite the assurances of President Goodluck Jonathan that his Government is committed to ensuring that this month’s elections hold as scheduled, it is morbidly unfortunate that some enemies of our fledgling democracy want to scuttle the process. This desperate measure ...
As attention shifts to February, the decisive month about which millions of Nigerians have adrenalin and a choice to make between change and continuity, it is auspicious to cast a look back at the month of January. Generally, without the ...
Most Nigerians’ perception of President Goodluck Jonathan, as a person, is that he is a simple and humble man thrust up by the good hands of fate. I am not an exception. A semiotic reading of his mien and demeanor ...
We owe our education to the pencil more than any other educational material. If we assume that the pen is more important, well, we may not be right because we encountered the pencil first; besides, there is pen in the ...
A few years ago, there was a lot of hoopla when some United States-based analysts predicted that the year 2015 would mark the end of Nigeria’s corporate existence. Though the so-called report was not affiliated with the US Government, ...
A cursory look at our global society aptly reveals that beyond the glitz and glamour of lights and colours, fancy automobiles and trendy gadgets, we are sick from within. I call this “soul sickness”. This soul sickness manifests in hatred, ...
Violence has often trailed the conduct of elections in Nigeria since Independence. For instance, the elections of the years 1964, 1965, 1979, 1983, 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2011 were marred by irregularities that resulted in violence, which claimed several lives ...