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Columnist: My Person of the Year

By Ray Ekpu The past year was a horrible year for Nigeria and the world, because of the Covid-19 pandemic that turned our lives and lifestyle topsy turvy. Those who rose stoutly to the challenge that the pandemic posed remain heroes to whom we owe a debt of gratitude. But in selecting the Person of […]
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Columnist: The quintessential Sam

By Ahmed Mora Major General (Rtd)Muhammadu Buhari would not be contesting, and we left it at that. From my days as the Director of Pharmaceutical Services in the Kaduna State Government in 1990, I was given official accomodation at house No 8, Sokoto Road, GRA, Kaduna and I stayed for twenty six (26)years until 2016. […]
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Columnist: Achieving your dreams through thriving

By Fassy Yusuf Columnist, Despite the perilous state of the economy, and the debilitating and inclement environment we all live in, we cannot afford to give up. We must stop our daily lamentations. In essence we must continue to THRIVE. Thriving involves flourishing, growing vigorously, prosperity, progressing toward or realising a goal despite circumstances and […]
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Columnist: In defence of Garba Shehu

By Hope O’Rukevbe Eghagha I was miffed to no end last week when Nigerians took unnecessary umbrage at the exotic, fiercely loyal presidential spokesman, the sardonically inimitable and infinitely loquacious Mallam Garba Shehu over statements he made about the Boko-Haram-slaughtered farmers of Zabarmari Borno State, to the effect that the farmers ought to have obtained […]
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Columnist: Pluralities of issues facing us

By Fassy Yusuf Columnist, This is not the best of time to live in Nigeria. The economy is perilous. Our education is lying prostrate. The imported coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has disrupted our existence leading to the coinage of ‘new normal’. Our youths whilst trying to put effect to their constitutional cum fundamental rights to life, […]
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Columnist: The 21st century public administrator

By Prof Tunji Olaopa Columnist, Just recently, the Government of Oyo State took a significant milestone in administrative history with the summit organized in honor of the recently departed icon, Pa Theophilus Adeleke Akinyele. Notably, Pa Akinyele’s death was devoid of the usual rancor that attends the funeral plans for a statesman; and second, the […]
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Columnist: Mahmood Yakubu: The task ahead

By Ray Ekpu Mahmood Yakubu, Professor of Political History and International Studies is a man of history. He was the first man to earn a first class degree in History from the University of Sokoto, now called Usman Dan Fodio University. History lacks the precision of Engineering or Mathematics and is therefore a very difficult […]
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Columnist: The concept of “Permanent Secretary” in administrative history

By Tunji Olaopa A former senior Canadian permanent secretary once graphically described a “permanent secretary”: “While governments and ministers come and go, the permanent secretary remains the permanent custodian of permanent problems.” This statement constitutes a very apt historical overview of the conception of the permanent secretary, and the function the office was
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Columnist: Citizen Journalism: A misnomer

By Ray Ekpu Nigeria’s political elite are strange animals. They give the outward – and deceptive – impression that they want democracy but inwardly the only thing that they truly want is power, raw power, and authoritarian power. When the first television station was established in Ibadan in 1959, it was obvious to many that […]
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Columnist: Big lessons from America

By Tony Afejuku America that is, the United States of America is experiencing an unusual political autumn which began on Tuesday, November 3 of 2020 the Super Tuesday of the presidential election of the super great nation currently amply uncertain of its super electoral greatness. Objective or subjective evidence before the world has confirmed that […]
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Columnist: The concept of “Permanent Secretary” in administrative history

By Prof Tunji Olaopa A former senior Canadian permanent secretary once graphically described a “permanent secretary”: “While governments and ministers come and go, the permanent secretary remains the permanent custodian of permanent problems.” This statement constitutes a very apt historical overview of the conception of the permanent secretary, and the function the office
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Columnist: The rise and fall of Donald Trump

By Hope O’Rukevbe Eghagha Outgoing President Donald John Trump had the good world made for him. By inherited wealth and a rambunctious if erratic and eccentric personality, he fitted into the world, almost perfectly. When I read Mary Trump’s (Donald Trump’s niece) account of the dysfunctional Trump family in her book Too Much and Never […]