Tunde Leye: For young people, this is how to remove the stigma of failure (Y! FrontPage)

by Tunde Leye As a nation, we are at the point where we need people who will take tremendous risks in the economy to break barriers, build industries and cause this nation to fulfill its potential. People will fail when they take risk. This is as inevitable as the sun rising. In Nigeria, there is... Read More

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July 18, 2014

Japheth Omojuwa: Wanted – An Act to manage citizens’ opinion (Y! FrontPage)

by Japheth Omojuwa People like Oby Ezekwesili must continue to be attacked and blackmailed. She deserves it. 2015 is around the corner yet people like her continue to make the Chibok Girls the central issue despite over three months of passage since their abduction. Democracy has afforded Nigerian citizens the right to express their opinion... Read More

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July 17, 2014

Bunmi Olaniyan: Asiwaju Bola Tinubu – A study in leadership (Y! FrontPage)

by Bunmi Olaniyan I hope Asiwaju will tell those inconsequential yokels waxing idiotic lyrics in these very words without editing “if you don’t believe I am deserving of all these awards and accolades ask Baba Akande:Ask Lai Mohammed:Ask APC members especially the youth who have seen and felt my generousity Teach the people how to... Read More

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July 15, 2014

Suraj Oyewale: Messi – The nays had it (Y! FrontPage)

by Suraj Oyewale They naysayers easily point to this fact, brandishing Pele, Diego Maradona, and Zinedine Zidane as examples; that until Messi wins the world cup, they don’t regard him as in this exclusive class yet. I expected it, but still did not want it to happen. I wished the opposite happened. I rooted for... Read More

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July 14, 2014

Tunde Leye: How we all support corruption (Y! FrontPage)

by Tunde Leye So today, we see actors and actresses, musicians and bankers clearly living above their incomes and put it on all to the “Na Baba God dey do am” utterances. One of the enduring misnomers that Nigerians daily project is the fact that corruption is a phenomenon strictly limited to public servants. Whilst... Read More

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July 8, 2014

Jarus Oyewale: Who is Nigeria’s greatest columnist living or dead?- Part 1 (Y! FrontPage)

by Jarus Oyewale Other dead columnists that will seriously contend for that prize include Dele Giwa and Stanley Macebuh. Dele Giwa was Nigeria’s most popular journalist, no thanks to the circumstances that surrounded his death. Penultimate Tuesday on this column I recounted my growing up years and how I got used to reading newspapers at... Read More

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July 5, 2014

Japheth Omojuwa: The Super Eagles and their allowances – Before you shoot at them (Y! FrontPage)

by Japheth Omojuwa Indicting players when issues of allowances come up with the national team will never solve the problem. The reaction of the players is only the result of a deeper issue. Players of the Greek national team raised patriotism a notch when they decided to donate their earnings from the World Cup into... Read More

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July 3, 2014

Alkasim Abdulkadir: Between our hypocrisy and their Hippocratic Oath (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir …as citizens we also deserve the right to be treated according to the Hippocratic Oath that doctors have sworn too. The rise of medical negligence has caused so much pain and terminated the lives of Nigerians. “Health services are in shambles as our hospitals are reduced to mere consulting clinics without drugs,... Read More

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June 30, 2014

Tunde Leye: Make no mistake, it’s this generation’s task to build Nigeria (Y! FrontPage)

by Tunde Leye Everyday, all around me, I see a Nigeria that the older generation has bequeathed to us. It is a nation where nothing works, whose citizens are harassed the world over simply because they carry a green passport and one which it takes a lot of effort to be proud of. Whenever I... Read More

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June 24, 2014

Suraj Oyewale: Memoirs of a newspaper boy (Y! FrontPage)

by Suraj Oyewale Then, I could discuss pre-independence and first republic politics with precision, from the London conference to the Operation Wetie crisis. I savoured those moments. I started reading newspapers at a very tender age, probably before hitting 10. And I’m not talking about looking at cartoons or joining those crossword puzzles. Trekking, sometimes... Read More

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June 23, 2014

Tunde Leye: Reporting Nigeria – What is good for the goose (Y! FrontPage)

by Tunde Leye Why then does the media find it so convenient to report events about Nigeria in prisms and narratives of Muslim North against Christian South, or Oil Rich Niger Delta or Hausa-Fulani North? Borno, at the epicenter of Boko Haram’s assault has a 25% to 30% Christian population. The Event On Sunday, June... Read More

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June 19, 2014

Alkasim Abdulkadir: Yan Cirani – Beasts of no nation (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir Yan cirani, the colloquial name for migratory workers in Hausa is a known class in Northern Nigeria. Some have even logged in generations in some communities that their descendants hardly know anywhere else than there resident communities. Obalende in Lagos is tucked away from the Post-card luxury of its other cousins like Victoria... Read More

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June 17, 2014

Suraj Oyewale: Dora Akunyili’s refund and lessons in honesty (Y! FrontPage)

by Suraj Oyewale No one retires government money. Even if retirement is an obligation, it is a matter of claiming that the surgery actually took place. But not Akunyili. She voluntarily refunded the surgery money. While admonishing participants at a mentoring conference my platform, JarusHub Career and Management Portal, organized for a select team of... Read More

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June 12, 2014

Alkasim Abdulkadir: Jos – Rising from the vortex of twin blasts (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir In all forms of the journalism I practice, trauma reporting is one of the most difficult as it is nearly impossible for the reporter to tear himself away from the pain and hopelessness of the subject. The hallway of tears and sorrow. Sarah Samuel sits on a chair, feebly answers the greetings of... Read More

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June 9, 2014

Tunde Leye: In the military’s best interest (Y! FrontPage)

by Tunde Leye The irony of it all is this – whilst we support our military, we must continue to remind them that these generals that they are brutalizing the press for are the very ones all fingers are pointing to as responsible for the mismanagement of funds meant to kit and equip them in... Read More

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June 6, 2014

Japheth Omojuwa: The role of the individual in development (Y! FrontPage)

by Japheth Omojuwa Oby Ezekwesili said that one needs character, competence and capacity to deliver value in today’s world. Have you got the right character to build your life on? The foundation we need to set that future aright is you, the individual. We can say all we want about the future but the most... Read More

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June 3, 2014

Suraj Oyewale: Bad Muslims and the rest of us (Y! FrontPage)

by Suraj Oyewale Exterminating innocent souls is seriously detested not only in the Qur’an but also common sense, except one with a hardened mind and no conscience. How a Muslim will think killing people that did not commit any offence is right and still thinks he is not a bad Muslim is beyond me.... Read More

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May 29, 2014

Alkasim Abdulkadir: NERC’s tariff regimes in a season of reforms (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir Nigeria can no longer afford not to have an efficient electricity market that meets the needs of all sectors of the economy. This is why the Federal Government is determined to complete the reforms mandated in The Electric Power Sector Reform Act (EPSRA), 2005. Nigeria’s electricity sector is undergoing a season... Read More

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May 28, 2014

Collins Uma: Jonathan is not clueless, he’s insensitive (Y! FrontPage)

by Collins Uma Jonathan has two options now: to continue shielding sponsors of Boko Haram and get their support in the 2015 elections or become sensitive to what Nigerians are suffering and let this compassion drive him towards true greatness, no matter who’s ox is gored. Early in 2010, in the twilight of the Yar’Adua... Read More

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May 27, 2014

Suraj Oyewale: Sanusi Lamido Sanusi – The morning after (Y! FrontPage)

by Suraj Oyewale How high did he rank on personal integrity and morality? Well, I learnt not to put my money on anybody on this subject. Maybe, I’m a bit disappointed here. That I am a big fan of the erstwhile Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, is very... Read More

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May 27, 2014

Tunde Leye: Mr. President, lead and inspire us! (Y! FrontPage)

by Tunde Leye Mr. President sir, lead and inspire us. This cannot be too much to ask, considering the financial burden our nation carries for your office. Our President and his aides just don’t get it. When a person goes around before an election campaigning for votes to be elected as the President of this... Read More

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May 22, 2014

Alkasim Abdulkadir: Chibok – Nigerian women, from fault lines to front lines (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir In the end, thousands of these women all over Nigeria by their actions have re-awakened a need to halt our slide into dehumanising vortex. Beneath the rallying cry of asking us to bring back our girls, Nigerian women are asking us all to bring back our country. Nigeria’s history is replete with... Read More

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May 21, 2014

Collins Uma: Fond memories of Jos is all we have (Y! FrontPage)

by Collins Uma Jos was to me a place to find solace. The city that gave me a Degree. Now that city is facing ruin and political will to fight this battle is almost zero. Morale of the soldiers is at an all time low. My memories are all I have. I had started writing... Read More

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May 20, 2014

Suraj Oyewale: As OAU prepares to dance on Awolowo’s grave (Y! FrontPage)

by Suraj Oyewale Ife is a school for the brilliant poor. If some universities have turned education into a commercial venture, Ife must not be tempted to join the train I finished from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, almost eight years ago, but like many other alumni of the school, I have the interest of... Read More

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May 15, 2014

Alkasim Abdulkadir: MEND, a terrorist organization or violent agitators? (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir ….President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan made a statement, which I personally believe has come to be the biggest faux pa of his administration. In his address at a colloquium in Abuja during a sitting of the ECOWAS parliament he declared that MEND was not a terrorist group. Citizen Mayowa Adeniran, 28, woke up in... Read More

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May 13, 2014

Suraj Oyewale: Why Jonathan will return in 2015 (Y! FrontPage)

by Suraj Oyewale The opposition are jokers! I was excited about the formation of APC, but as events unfolded, I have come to dismiss them as not serious. If the current public mood is anything to go by, one would get the impression that President Goodluck Jonathan’s days in Aso Rock are numbered. From Twitter to... Read More

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May 5, 2014

Tunde Leye: A tale of two Caliphates (Y! FrontPage)

by Tunde Leye It must be seen that apart from the issues of governance, poverty and politics in the region, there is an underlying clash of two caliphates – the older, less dominant but dogged Bornu Caliphate of the Kanuri and the newer, Sokoto Caliphate of the Fulani. The immediate causes and history of... Read More

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April 28, 2014

Tunde Leye: We have failed in humanizing our tragedy victims (Y! FrontPage)

by Tunde Leye There were military men guarding Chibok school who were outgunned and murdered by the Boko Haram fighters. Who is telling their story, making them into heroes for the sacrifice they have made? People are not statistics. As simple as this statement is, the Nigerian state often acts otherwise. Compare, for example, the... Read More

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April 24, 2014

Alkasim Abdulkadir: An open letter to Vice Admiral Murtala Nyako (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir ….as someone who fought for the oneness of this country, as a sub-lieutenant in 1965 and even commanded the Nigerian Navy’s Patrol craft, a landing craft and the first missile carrying ship and also as a sitting governor –I term it as the height of the political incorrectness to allude to the President... Read More

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