Category: Leaders

Adam Smith opined that there is no obligation for anyone to do good. Still, for society to survive, rules must be designed todeter individuals from harming each other. The Western world leaders have since adopted this notion, and it contributed to their accelerated growth. A very simple way of emulating such behaviour is to follow the rules when you know too much or even very little, regardless of one’s position in society. It is worrisome when an elected official violates the law in our society because practising such behaviour is immoral, uncivil,and undemocratic. The… Read More

Taiwan was incredibly effective at managing the COVID-19 pandemic and the world has an opportunity to learn from that experience at the May 25-June 1 World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva. If only inviting Taiwan were that easy. Taiwan unfortunately has been blocked from participating in critical international efforts to control the spread of diseases, denied access to important platforms… Read More

The Nigerian Air Force is the youngest arm of the Nigerian military having been established only on April 18, 1964. In the course of its 57 years of operation, defending the air space of Nigeria and the country’s territorial integrity, the NAF has seen action in many theatres of operation: the Nigerian Civil war, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Mali, the Gambia… Read More

The Federal Government is dealing with a delicate issue, yet absconding the parameters of truth and waving it as opposition jamboree. Grazing cows on other people’s land is a constitutional right of any Fulani herdsman, according to the Attorney-General of the Federation Abubakar Malami, in a country where these nomadic Fulani herdsmen have rendered many people homeless. The truth is… Read More

HADIZA Bala Usman, politician and social activist, was until last Thursday, May 6, the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA. But on that day, President Muhammadu Buhari yanked her off and ordered an investigation of her stewardship in the agency. As in almost all such cases, the report of the investigation may never not see the light of… Read More

A successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and shortcomings of his followers. But it is not the same with the Buhari regime which has deliberately refused to combat terrorists and also refused to take responsibility for its incompetence.  It has, instead, turned around to blame citizens for its failure to combat terrorism, armed robbery and… Read More

The Enugu-based Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, was reported recently to have gone ‘missing’. He later re-emerged to tell the story of his whereabout. The Enugu Catholic Bishop, Callistus Onaga, had ‘arrested’ Mbaka and kept him incommunicado reportedly for some days. And that led to some riot by his followers and rumours of kidnapping and sequestration by security… Read More

News of the release of the 27 kidnapped students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna State, no doubt, calls for celebration. These students spent 50 good days in the camp of their captors. We saw them being beaten and assaulted in a trending video released by their kidnappers. It doesn’t matter if two of the 29 students… Read More

News of the release of the 27 kidnapped students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna State, no doubt, calls for celebration. These students spent 50 good days in the camp of their captors. We saw them being beaten and assaulted in a trending video released by their kidnappers. It doesn’t matter if two of the 29 students… Read More