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May 22, 2013

Iyinoluwa Aboyeji: Change the nation by starting from where you are (Y! FrontPage)

by Iyinoluwa Aboyeji Yes, you want to change Nigeria but you don’t need to boil the ocean. Start somewhere. Pick one problem. Study it, till you can explain and solve…

May 22, 2013

Japheth Omojuwa: What Lagos and Lome can learn from Dakar (Y! FrontPage)

by Japheth Omojuwa Anytime I arrive Nigeria through Lagos the question always gets at me; will I ever want to return to this country if I was not its citizen?…

May 20, 2013

Cheta Nwanze: See what Boko Haram has caused (Y! FrontPage)

by Cheta Nwanze In order to stem the ugly tide of huge losses in foreign reserves to unjustifiable importation of fish, there is need to develop local fish production has…

May 18, 2013

Temie Giwa: Go back to your village (Y! FrontPage)

by Temie Giwa The other reason I have spent my life wandering around the world is to take up a chance to make my fortune and I am still work…

May 15, 2013

Japheth Omojuwa: Africa Rising and the new trade conversation (Y! FrontPage)

by Japheth Omojuwa Africa’s development will always be limited by its foundation. There would be no development without the right infrastructure to drive it. Is Africa truly rising? It depends…

May 14, 2013

Iyinoluwa Aboyeji: We need to change the way we teach (Y! Frontpage)

by Iyinoluwa Aboyeji The world often tends to follow a power law distribution or what is more popularly called the 80-20 rule or the Pareto principle. This phenomenon of power…

May 13, 2013

Cheta Nwanze: Our environment breeds cancer and malaria (Y! FrontPage)

by Cheta Nwanze Malaria is commonly associated with poverty, and can indeed be a cause of poverty and a major hindrance to economic development. Cancer is a class of diseases…

May 8, 2013

Japheth Omojuwa: Shaping Africa’s prosperity from within (Y! FrontPage)

The other thing that struck and impressed me was the fact that young people from across the continent agreed that when you give the average Nigerian enough support, you’d make…

May 4, 2013

Temie Giwa: Nigeria – The rampaging cancer scourge and how we can fight it (Y! FrontPage)

There are some viral infections such as HBV/HCV and HPV that are responsible for up to 20% of cancer deaths in low- and middle-income countries. Cancer is here to stay;…

May 1, 2013

Japheth Omojuwa: Governance in Nigeria and its many distractions (Y! FrontPage)

More than any nation in the world, we should know that our government only knows how to fail at doing business on behalf of the people. It is not enough…

April 29, 2013

Cheta Nwanze: The revolution we need (Y! FrontPage)

When the population is deeply divided along ethnic or religious lines, the revolution quickly degenerates into anarchy. Revolution? I think not. I have been hearing increasing murmurs by young people…

April 24, 2013

Japheth Omojuwa: Terrorism – Force has failed (Y! FrontPage)

If we pacify those with the guns today, the same seeds that brought them to fruition will come to roost again. Whatever we do, time is not on our side.…

April 23, 2013

Iyinoluwa Aboyeji: Nigeria – The role of technology in driving the new economy (Y! FrontPage)

Nigeria needs to acknowledge how dire the situation is and correct its educational system especially at the tertiary level. Our Universities need to be talent factories and not talent drains.…

April 22, 2013

Cheta Nwanze: Why are we encouraging bad behaviour? (Y! FrontPage)

You do not, as a government show any form of weakness to miscreants. There is no surer recipe for anarchy as this kind of behaviour gives all sorts of miscreants…

April 20, 2013

Temie Giwa: This is what a feminist looks like (Y! FrontPage)

In other to change this status quo, most of us must become feminists. Many women are not satisfied with staying at home and raising children, no matter how fulfilling this…

April 18, 2013

Akintunde Oyebode: My Hero, the journalist (Y! FrontPage)

There are no words to soften this; Nigeria is slowly degenerating to the days when Bagauda Kaltho was blown away by the despotic government of the day. According to the…

April 17, 2013

Japheth Omojuwa: The Jonathan gov’t must earn the loyalty it demands (Y! FrontPage)

Every government must earn its loyalty. The current government does not deserve the loyalty of Nigerians because it has not been loyal to the majority of Nigerians. One will always…

April 16, 2013

Iyinoluwa Aboyeji: The Nigerian Education sector needs a total overhaul ( Y! FrontPage)

The effect of this problem is showing in the quality of our graduates and employment opportunities available to them and Nigerians who are very good at finding patch work solutions…

April 15, 2013

Cheta Nwanze: Crime definitely pays around here (Y! FrontPage)

You see, whether the Niger Delta militants had a genuine grievance against the Nigerian state is a moot point. The point is that they took up arms against the state;…

April 13, 2013

Temie Giwa: 2015 – Who will bell the legislators? (Y! FrontPage)

In order to get 2015 right, a shift in perspective is required for us to slightly move away from our historical obsession with the Executive branch of government, and towards…

April 10, 2013

Japheth Omojuwa: #TFASymposium thoughts – Our common debt and Nigeria (Y! FrontPage)

I believe without an iota of doubt that the young people present at The Future Awards Symposium are enough to change the destiny of this country in its entirety; politics,…

April 8, 2013

Cheta Nwanze: Are we ready for change? (Y! FrontPage)

The central point of Rotimi Amaechi's treatise is this: Nigerians as a body are not ready to change things. Change is one thing that people find difficult to accept. No…

April 3, 2013

Japheth Omojuwa: Jonathanians and the truth they must embrace (Y! FrontPage)

This is where the Jonathan administration has failed in its communication. By constantly accusing these genuinely angry Nigerians as being the voice of the opposition... This means that, they will…

March 22, 2013

Hauwa Gambo: I tire for this our nyama-nyama president (Y! FrontPage)

by Hauwa Gambo We have a president who, in the same year, declared that he is “not a lion” and has no need to be, only for him to turn…

March 21, 2013

Akintunde Oyebode: Let’s talk about Bayelsa (Y! FrontPage)

While we laughed and ranted about the headlines from our friends, the most alarming headline about Bayelsa State went relatively unnoticed. It is very rare to see three men who…

March 20, 2013

Japheth Omojuwa: New media was not created to solve Nigeria’s problems (Y! FrontPage)

There are indeed many sides to new media. It will not by itself change Nigeria but it will at least reveal us to ourselves. Nigerians have been directly running their…

March 18, 2013

Cheta Nwanze: How many social media followers make a valid vote? (Y! FrontPage)

We are all so focused on GEJ and how he is pardoning #DSPAlams that we forget that the biggest damage to our country is done at the local level. In…

March 17, 2013

Ebuka Obi-Uchendu: Finding my voice again (Y! FrontPage)

How do you continue to shout at a government that has had almost no single arrest or conviction of a government official for corrupt practices in almost 3 years of…

March 16, 2013

Temie Giwa: Corruption – Nigeria needs to protect its whistle blowers (Y! FrontPage)

...it is a warning to those who might yet choose to stand with the people, that their government will not stand for them... Nigeria must learn to treat her whistle…

March 13, 2013

Japheth Omojuwa: #OccupyNigeria – Fueling the Nigerian awakening for active citizenship (Y! FrontPage)

We cannot continue to throw our empty bowls before the West and expect that we will attain prosperity on their charity. We must endure the pain and pleasure of earning…

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