Saving Forests From Chocolate This Season, By Etelle Higonnet
It’s up to us to hold the industry accountable this holiday season. Hundreds of thousands of consumers have already acted, and chocolate lovers one and all can help shift the industry from naughty to nice by simply insisting that holiday chocolate they purchase is “Deforestation-free.” The holiday season is chock-full…
Nigeria and the Quest for Comprehensive Literacy: The STEM Solution, By Adetola Salau
There is a need to increase literacy to accomplish the aim of a holistic education for Nigerian children and adults. Training structures at all levels need to ensure there is always a built-in link between literacy/training and the real world. This is where STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education…
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The Consequences of Turning Away From Allah, By Murtada Gusau
In The Name Of Allah, The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful All praises belong to Allah the Lord of all that exists. I bear witness that nothing has the right to be worshipped except for Allah alone without partners, and I bear witness that Muhammad (Peace be upon him) is…
The Imperative of Signing the Electoral Act, By Jibrin Ibrahim
It is indeed true that Nigerians would revolt against any attempt to move backwards in the march towards improved electoral integrity and the president should be advised to keep to the straight and narrow path leading to free, fair and credible elections. The whole country is on tenterhooks as Nigerians…
Oyedepo and the Perils of Satire, By Azu Ishiekwene
Oyedepo does not have to like Buhari – and it’s obvious that he doesn’t. Which is fine. But a man of his stature and learning ought to know better than to inflict on church members and propagate publicly a piece of monstrous fiction which, frankly, discredits him. It’s difficult to…
President Muhammadu Buhari’s Timely Homily, By M.B.O Owolowo
The crux of President Buhari’s message is to those dutifully striving to make political capital out of religious divergences. Religious conflict serves no good. Though such conflicts may possibly pay arms dealers - quite literally, and benefit misery merchants, it definitely doesn’t pay the generality of Nigerians. President Muhammadu Buhari’s…
Of Digital Apartheid and the Promise of 5G, By Louis Odion
...without continued investment in hardware, there is no way the country can even hope to take full advantage of the promise of GSM telephony to begin it is only when that is sustained that the nation can hope to achieve 55 per cent mobile penetration of the population by 2025,…
Metele: Never Again!, By Dele Agekameh
It is high time we started getting our strategy right against the Boko Haram insurgents by giving a response commensurate to the threat posed by the group. The news of the November 18 attack of Boko Haram insurgents on the 157 Task Force Battalion of the Nigeria Army, stationed in…
Atiku-Obi Ticket: The Devil In the Detail, By Banji Ojewale
...it’s not enough to hail the Atiku-Obi team as the ideal presidential stuff. The party needs to work on them. They aren’t angels spared human foibles despite their outstanding characteristics and achievements. We must brace for a rift, which must come because we are talking of two strong personalities, each…
Connecting the Dots of Corruption: How Individual Greed Has Crippled Nigeria (I), By Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú
Our lack of reckoning and buck passing betrays our almost congenital inability to think deep, connect the dots and see how we are ruining the country collectively. We blame leaders for everything, refusing to see how we extend corruption in our homes, our spheres of influence and how the cancer…
