Commissioner Chris Nehikhare, good evening. I read the public letter you wrote to our respected leader, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu and have decided to reply. It is sad that in your desire to please your paymaster, you have ignored the obvious…
THE social media, billboards, radio and television stations are fraught like forming palm wines with appealing messages to delegates and voters in Edo State as the primaries that will culminate to the election in September draws closer daily. ‘Send me,…
THIS week, the National Working Committee, NWC, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, approved a seven-man Screening Committee for the purpose of screening all the gubernatorial aspirants for the upcoming governorship primary election in Edo State. This will take place…
INTRODUCTION THE inaugural edition of this series was necessarily foundational as it set the stage for what is to follow. We started by defining ‘leadership’. We, then, focus on two particular types of leadership: transformational leadership and transactional leadership. We…
(PART 7) IN the last 6 parts of this article, we concluded our discussion of the role of the media and move on to the sources of Press Freedom and concluded it with an analysis of the Character of Nigerian…
I have had the privilege of high office and can state without equivocation that the office of the Nigerian president is one of the most powerful presidencies in the world with enormous powers, coercive and otherwise. The President is the…
BIG calamities seldom knock before opening the door. Calamities’ sneaky essence is articulated in one song by grand old Odolaye Aremu, Ilorin, Kwara state-born Dadakuada song minstrel. While philosophizing the concept of calamity, which Yoruba call “eemo”, Odolaye sang that…
COMRADE Adams Oshiomole cleared his friends with criminal records and outstanding history of failure but disqualified people of impeachable character. This same Oshiomole at a sober moment of his life once sacked Dennis Idahosa from his Exco as Governor of…
THERE are intense heatwaves posed by the off-cycle governorship election in Edo State, holding on September 21, 2024. Emphatically speaking, the current electioneering in the nation’s ‘Heartbeat State’, potends a slip-up sensation of reaching a crescendo, even though it is…
THE IMPERATIVES OF LEADERSHIP (PART 1) INTRODUCTION The topic of leadership has been of interest for many hundreds of years, from the early Greek philosophers such as Plato and Socrates to the plethora of management and leadership gurus, whose books…
