Category: Opinion

Michael Adeniyi Koleosho: Tribute to Babalaje By Festus Adedayo

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Today, Saturday 19 October, 2024, the body of Chief Michael Adeniyi Koleosho, popularly known as Babalaje in Oyo State political circle, was committed to mother earth. Today, the soil of Saki, a border town of which he was unarguably the most consequential political mascot for about half a century, opened its arms and received the remains of Babalaje into its bosom as an eternal consort.   A couple of days after Koleosho breathed his last on September 2, 2024, the paramount ruler of Oke-Ogun and the Okere of Shaki, Oba…

NASS: Redefining the Status of Workforce for Optimum Performance, BY ABUBAKAR YUSUF

Abubakar Yusuf

The National Assembly management under the leadership of Sani Magaji Tambawal as Clerk to the National Assembly (CNA) has concluded efforts to professionalise some perceived temporary workers of Assembly whose terms of engagement expires every four years of the life of the National Assembly members. More than two and half decades since the return to the current democratic dispensation in 1999 , the process remain the same as some lawmakers who had the opportunity of ranking advantage embarked on recircling or changing the legislative aides on termly basis , providing…

UBEC; Reforming Deficits Towards Enhancing Performance, By Abubakar Yusuf

Abubakar Yusuf

The Universal Basic Education Commission UBEC under the leadership of Dr Hamid Bobboyi as the Executive Secretary/ Chief Executive Officer ES/ CEO has showed a lot of willingness and administrative wizardry towards inculcating not only Infrastructural rejuvenation, but manpower development towards the delivery of its mandate inline with the act establishing the commission.   In this vein , it started the process of Infrastructural rejuvenation side by side with manpower development towards ensuring a lasting solution to all round deficits, prevalent in the commission with concentration to Zonal and State…

Overnight riches come with heavy toil… By Haruspice

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I swear to nature, money does not come to anyone by accident, it is a deliberate delivery package. You must be deliberate to earn money either by hook or toil. Those who choose to be fraudulent are always guests of the law. You can’t cut corners and expect to be free.   As a law, I am never moved by what others have- I always have this consoling maxim passed unto me by my late mother-in-law she would say, ‘There is never a late date for fashion, the time you…

Why youth entrepreneurs are key to tackling climate change in Africa,By Tony Elumelu

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I am a proud Nigerian and a proud African. I am also a philanthropist and entrepreneur—and I have seen firsthand that to effectively tackle climate change within the African context, from Egypt to Nigeria to South Africa, we must look to the people it impacts.   Too often our businesses have not created value on our continent or traded commodities for short-term profit, not long-term investment. Fostering entrepreneurship, sustaining young entrepreneurs, who will grow businesses and create sustainable employment, is a crucial pathway to achieving long-term climate solutions.   In…

Oyebanji @ 2! By abiodun KOMOLAFE

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On Wednesday, October 16, 2024, Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji (aka BAO) marked his second anniversary as Governor of Ekiti State, having been sworn in on October 16, 2022.   Oyebanji’s two-year anniversary celebrates his dedication to Ekiti State’s progress. He has masterfully navigated Nigeria’s intricate politics, balancing competing interests and fostering growth through strategic investments in key sectors. With his ‘homeboy factor’ and extensive experience serving two former governors in six different capacities, the governor has managed to unite various tendencies within the state, bringing about peace, stability and development.  …

Beyond the horizon: Nigeria’s unwritten chapter By abiodun KOMOLAFE

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I fondly recall my time at Ijebu-Jesa Grammar School in Osun State, specifically from 1979/80 to 1982/83. This period stands out due to the Unity Party of Nigeria’s (UPN) Free Education programme, spearheaded by the late Obafemi Awolowo. Under this initiative, education was completely free, covering everything from school fees to basic supplies like pencils and erasers. Although Bola Ige governed the old Oyo State at the time, UPN’s programme was implemented across all states under the party’s control. However, the power transition of power on October 1, 1983 marked…

Sumaila Akaba and the Ajaokuta Steel Journey; Seven Years After…. ,By Abdullahi O. Haruna Haruspice

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For seven remarkable years, Engr. Sumaila Abdul-Akaba has been at the forefront of a monumental task: reviving the Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited, Africa’s largest steel complex. His tenure as the Sole Administrator of the steel giant has been a testament to visionary leadership, resilience, and the pursuit of excellence in an industrial venture that had been long dormant. When he assumed the role in 2017, the challenges were immense. Decades of neglect, mismanagement, and underfunding had left Ajaokuta giant steel in a state of near ruin, its potential unrealized, and…

SOUTHWEST ASSEMBLY: The struggle to sustain the progressive ideology By Femi ODERE

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The Saturday, October 5, 2024 meeting of major stakeholders and apparatchiks of the All Progressives Party (APC) in the Southwest geopolitical region, which was reportedly coordinated by His Excellency Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the governor of Lagos State, and held at the Eko Hotels and Suites where the former governor of Ekiti State, His Excellency Dr. Kayode Fayemi delivered the keynote address couldn’t have come at an auspicious moment.   Given the party’s worrisome and increasing negative public perception not only in its core base of the Southwest but other geopolitical regions—-no…