Tag: Leadership

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November 17, 2013

Orji Uzor Kalu: Almost every Nigerian is plagued by the curse of sycophancy

by Orji Uzor Kalu This is the aspect that bothers me. Sycophancy, praise-singing and hagiography appear to have been institutionalized ...

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October 24, 2013

Opinion: Nigerian leadership and the Nigerian people are equally irresponsible

by Frederick Nwafor As pointed out tangentially earlier, the Nigerian leadership and the Nigerian people share morsels of garbage from ...

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September 25, 2013

Okey Ikechukwu: Onyeka Onwenu, remember Remi Oyo, Ifueko

by Okey Ikechukwu Onyeka Onwenu is to offer leadership to an organisation that needs to be taken to new levels ...

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September 2, 2013

Osione Abokhai: The suit and tie syndrome (30 Days 30 Voices)

by Osione Abokhai “I thought of how my hope ebbed away when I saw what the man was wearing.” I was ...

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August 28, 2013

Opinion: The other side of Goodluck Jonathan

by Chris Aja One of the most outstanding leadership attributes President Jonathan has exhibited which most of his critics cannot, ...

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August 20, 2013

Opinion: Now that the APC has been registered…

Ahmed Razaq Oluwasanjo It is also important that APC should understand that the ultimate is not just dislodging the ruling ...

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August 5, 2013

Opinion: Disagreeing with Adamu Adamu on the Hausa Fulani ‘problem’

by Ibraheem A. Waziri It is my hope that Nigeria will one day wake up to its responsibilities and invest ...

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July 29, 2013

Tobiloba Adesokan: My shattered American Dream – Confessions of a 16-year-old (30 Days, 30 Voices)

by Tobiloba Adesokan I was never at the top of my class in my high school, but I made up ...

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July 25, 2013

Tragic: Man stabs pregnant wife over failure to bear male child

by Chisom Ukaegbu The Ondo State Police division has apprehended a man for allegedly killing his pregnant wife.  The 48-year-old ...

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July 20, 2013

Opinion: Child marriage and the leadership question

by Philip Amiola Underage marriage is just another euphemism for child abuse. Actually, it is tantamount to pedophilia. Merely contemplating ...

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June 22, 2013

5 critical things you must know about leadership

by Tanisha Sykes Don’t expect your team to have an overabundance of ideas when you bring nothing to the table. It ...

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June 7, 2013

Opinion: 2015 – Lamido and Obasanjo’s selfish endorsement

by Iyobosa Uwugiaren  Obasanjo knew the late Umaru Musa Yar’Adua was suffering from a terminal ailment and may not be ...

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May 31, 2013

Opinion: Happy Children’s Day to the kids at 30

by Gimba Kakanda May 27 is a moment to reflect, very soberly, on the lies we were told at Parade Grounds ...

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May 24, 2013

Prostitutes strip Jehovah’s Witnesses naked, burn Awake in Delta

In a reminiscent event,prostitutes operating at a popular Ezenei-Cable point in Asaba Delta State humiliated four gospel Jehovah Witness preachers during their routine activity leaving two ...

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May 6, 2013

House of Reps member takes the fight to GEJ in this oped: Tambuwal, Amaechi & the story of a desperate president

by Ahmed Kaita The recent “the man at the top” incident involving the grounding of the jet carrying Rivers State ...

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May 2, 2013

Opinion: Chinua Achebe’s ‘Ikemefuna’ and the destiny of the Nigerian youth

by Collins Uma ‘’When a man says yes his chi says yes also’’. I am sitting in my friend’s house at Ogidi, ...

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April 23, 2013

Olusegun Dada: I agree, let us pray for the PDP (Y! Politico)

by Olusegun Dada The PDP is everything that is wrong with this nation, the constituents of this evil cabal are ...

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April 17, 2013

Leadership loses it? Newspaper asks Guardian to apologise over a SATIRE piece

by Hauwa Gambo This would be funny, if it weren’t also deeply troubling – that one newspaper’s editors would clearly ...

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April 4, 2013

8 leadership lessons from the world’s most powerful women

by Jenna Goudreau The world’s most successful women really want it–and remain determined even in the face of obstacles. They ...

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March 28, 2013

Opinion: Democracy has enshrined bad leadership in Nigeria

by Simon Sylvester Shanum Fast forward fourteen years later and we are still searching for one key ingredient needed for development ...

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March 3, 2013

You don’t say: “Nigeria lacks good leaders” – Former President Obasanjo

Former president Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, declared that Nigeria lacked good leaders. Obasanjo lamented ...

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February 28, 2013

The ‘dark side’ of leadership: The impact of a bad boss can go viral though the office

by Alice G. Walton If your boss has it in for you, there’s a good chance that your colleagues are ...

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February 27, 2013

Japheth Omojuwa: Nigeria, if a better tomorrow must come (Y! FrontPage)

We must learn to use our supposed enemies to fight our own battles. There are times we will need them ...

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February 26, 2013

Olusegun Dada: 26 unfortunate laws of the Nigerian presidency (Y! Politico)

by Olusegun Dada Even if a war breaks out in your country before you leave, that’s not an excuse not ...

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February 5, 2013

Debo Adejugbe: Gov. Olusegun Mimiko is the reference point for real leadership (Y! Politico)

by Debo Adejugbe “Leadership success is having a dream then work, work, work.” – Bill Newman Recently, a friend asked ...

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February 2, 2013

‘The Speaker’: Outstanding reviews for Niyi Adesanya’s book on boosting creative speaking and presentation

On the heels of the launch of the book, “The Speaker” by renowned motivational speaker and youth advocate, Niyi Adesanya, ...

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January 28, 2013

Opinion: Five leadership lessons from Martin Luther King, Jr.

by Lanre Olagunju The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, ...

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January 28, 2013

5 principles for moral leadership

Accomplished leaders are like master craftsmen: their first principles are best practices, the felt wisdom of experience and reflection. Accomplished ...

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January 26, 2013

Nasir El-Rufai: In search of leadership (2): Restoring hope by avoiding breakdown

by Nasir El-Rufai Such false messiahs are easy to identify – usually they have had no proper education, no profession, ...

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January 18, 2013

Nasir el-Rufai: In search of leadership: Roots of historical crisis

by Nasir El-Rufai The murder of political leaders in 1966 without trying them and finding them guilty of any offence, ...

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