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RE: OIL – SWISS TRADERS SHORT-CHANGING NIGERIA, OTHER AFRICAN NATIONS – REPORT
By Zik Gbemre
We find it disturbing that despite Nigeria’s over five decades of oil and gas exploration and production, the country’s ‘Oil Wealth”, rather than make life to lot easier for Nigerians; the common man is being made to practically experience the opposite. Nigeria’s Oil Wealth, rather than being a blessing, is daily turning out ...
Nigeria at 54: Need for Peace and Progress
NIGERIA @ 54.. GRIDLOCKS AND THE ILLUSIVE EL DORADO.
NIGERIA AT 54: WE ARE NOT THERE YET
2015: How To Rescue Nigeria From PDP’s Inept Leadership
WHERE ARE THE ROADS IN NIGERIA?
2015 ELECTIONS AND THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF DEMOCRACY
By BOBSON GBINIJE
”All the ills of democracy can only be cured by more democracy”
(Alfred Smith -1873-1944)
Democracy, by isochronal and intertextual condensing, including but not limited to Jeffersonian, Lincolnian and Grecian normative standard is the political doctrine that recognizes the institutionalization of liberal structures of governance that enfranchises and gives the people the rights to elect ...
WARRI ROADS AND CORPORATE SOCIAL (IR)RESPONSIBILITY
BY BOBSON GBINIJE
The Late Satyagraha and Social Crusader, Tai Solarin, in one of his anecdotal portrayals posited that, “the hand of an elderly man cannot enter the gourd and the child cannot carry it. It therefore behooves both of them to get out the content of the gourd and to carry it forward through co-operation”.
The ...
2015 :NEWSPAPERS AND THEIR ‘GARGANTUAN’ EDITORS
BY BOBSON GBINIJE
“Even in the common affairs of live,
In love, friendship and marriage,
How little security have we when we
Trust our happiness in the hands of others!”
William Hazlitt (1778-1830) On Living to Oneself
The recherché of professionalism entails the serendipitous admixture of myriad formats of knowledgeability. Hence, every profession has its esoteric jargons. The ...
CORRUPTION AND TRANSPARENCY – THE NEED FOR NIGERIAN POLITICAL LEADERS TO WAKE UP
ZIK GBEMRE
One of the highlights and focal point of the recently concluded U.S-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, DC was the charge by the United States of America (USA), on African Leaders to holistically tackle the challenges of corruption and ensure accountability and transparency in order to ensure continued investment from America and other parts of ...
EBOLA THREAT: THE NEED TO ENSURE PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES ARE TAKEN BEFORE THE RESUMPTION OF SCHOOLS
By Zim Gbemre
With the recent announcement by the Federal Government of Nigeria through the Minister of Education, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau in Abuja, after an emergency meeting with the state commissioners for Education, that all private and public primary and secondary schools will resume September 22, 2014, we strongly urge that steps should also be taken by ...
THE PLURALISTIC RELATIVISM OF CRITICISMS BY BOBSON GBINIJE
BOBSON GBINIJE
THE PLURALISTIC RELATIVISM OF CRITICISMS.
“Criticism is a disinterested endeavor to learn
And propagate the best that is known and thought in the world”.
Mathew Arnold (1822-1888) Essays in Criticism.
Encapsulated in rhapsodic ebullience hallmarked by serendipity were Christopher Columbus on discovery of the Western Hemisphere, Luigi and Lucia Galvani on the theory of galvanism, ...
Can a State Develop Without Borrowing?
“DECIDE WHAT YOU WANT” (3)
By Patrick Okpomu
The mark and traits of a good leader whether in the home, community or the nation at large can only be quantified by the measure of what the said leader was able to do in order to better the lots of the people he leads.
The country’s moral condition keeps slipping to critical level ...
Ode to Ofili & National Productivity Order of Merit
By Alex O. Atawa Akpodiete
This past week, I was privileged to be one of those invited to the National Productivity Day (NPD) and the National Productivity Order of Merit (NPOM) Awards, bestowed on sixteen (16) individuals and three (3) organizations.
Of all the awardees, there was only one Deltan and he was the former Head of ...