Opinion Corner

  Across the country, alumni associations are increasingly returning to their former schools with more than memories of their schooldays. They are arriving with funds to renovate classrooms, construct buildings, provide desks, equip laboratories and libraries, install solar power, rehabilitate toilets, sink boreholes, award scholarships and support students whose families struggle to meet educational expenses. For many schools, these interventions …

Environmental or nature conservation, which the proposed national park in Abia represents, is a core pillar of the United Nations (UN) global principle of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), upon which humanity estimates progress and life’s fulfilment. Recently, extensive media news had echoed it firmly that Abia State governor, Mr. Alex Otti, with Dr. Kingsley Ononogbu, Board Chairman of the National …

President John Dramani Mahama has stepped onto the global stage not merely as the chief executive of the Republic of Ghana, but as the ideological heir to the most ferocious, organic, and single-minded visionary Africa has ever produced: Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. Mahama’s prodigious, luminous drives—challenging the structural rigging of the international financial architecture, demanding permanent African representation with full …

Behind the political rhetoric lie thirty-seven individual human stories—sons, brothers, and teenagers whose futures were violently extinguished in a state cell. Published reports from investigative outlets including The Punch and human rights documentation have compiled the roster of those whose lives were cut short in the Minna facility: These names stand as a permanent indictment of a system that views …

Under Tegbe, the Ministry appears to be dismantling the stumbling blocks that have for decades frustrated the delivery of reliable electricity to a resigned Nigerian populace. For many who had previously held the portfolio, the Power Ministry was a graveyard of reputations. The turf is seen as jinxed — littered with banana peels that sooner or later tripped its occupants. …

Saudi Arabia’s meteoric rise as a global event powerhouse is inextricably linked to Vision 2030, the Kingdom’s master blueprint to diversify its economy from oil reliance to a dynamic knowledge-based future. Mega-events like LEAP have rewritten attendance records, pulling in hundreds of thousands of visitors and drawing tens of billions of dollars in announced transactions, particularly in tech and AI …

President Tinubu inherited a battered economy. That is true. He inherited an economy burdened by fuel subsidies, exchange-rate distortions, weak public finances, insecurity and years of structural mismanagement. That is also true. But governments are elected precisely to confront difficult problems. The Nigerian people did not elect Tinubu merely to explain why their lives are difficult. They elected him to …

Twenty five years is long enough for a wound to close and for a scar to form in its place. It is also long enough for the meaning of an event to be quietly rewritten by the people who survived it. When the twin towers collapsed on a clear Tuesday morning in September 2001, nearly three thousand people died in …

Reflecting on Chief Dan Orbih’s decades-long trajectory across the political trenches reveals a rare mosaic of virtues that set him miles apart from the ephemeral, transactional politicians of our time. He was steadfast and unwavering. Dan maintained an absolute, unshakeable constancy to his political vision, refusing to drift with the winds of political expediency or jump ship when the tides …

It is most interesting that the rescue and rehabilitation of “Aigbabo”, an elephant calf, that got stranded in the buffers of the Okomu National Park, in Edo State, even though was the last to be mentioned, in the Czech Embassy’s event, was most thrilling. Of those who witnessed the ‘king’ at close range in the jungles, solitary confinement, or in …