Op.Ed pieces and columnists
Some call them kongis, others called them baban bola, (not Bola as in Yoruba), they are also known as obu ngwogwo in Igbo language while they call them scavengers in English. But these guys have not been considered for anything even though they risk th...
Let us also see it from the viewpoint of the huge capital, technological, organizational and ethical outlays involved, and which Nigeria also currently lacks and does not seem ready and able to attain. Besides, economic and social developments take pla...
An Ikeja High Court last Monday dismissed a case instituted against the Anosike brothers on the sale of Daily Times of Nigeria (DTN) which their company Folio Communications Limited bought in the privatisation exercise. Justice Habeeb Abiru in striking...
The 50th birthday celebration of the Chairman, Editor-in-Chief of LEADERSHIP Newspapers Group, Mr. Sam Nda-Isaiah, last week, turned out to be a forum where top-echelon members of the nation’s political intelligentia soberly reflected on the seve...
Ahead of the next general elections, many traditional rulers who have been stridently pitching for constitutional roles may have decided to bite the bullet and openly play the political game. Taking the recent endorsement of Governor Adams Oshiomhole o...
One crucial area that has become a source of concern to the Borno residents in recent times is the pitiable condition of the motherless babies and vulnerable children at the Fatima Ali Sheriff Orphanage Home, Maiduguri which the state government throug...
The imposition of state of emergency on Suleja and the resultant curfew are causing the residents untold hardships. Mairo Muhammad Mudi in this report examines the situation in the once peaceful town. Suleja is one of the fastest growing cities in Nige...
The chairman and publisher of Leadership Newspapers Group, Sam Nda-Isaiah, turned 50 on May 1, 2012. A quality crowd of eminent Nigerians and foreigners swarmed the Executive Hall of the International Conference Centre Abuja, to honour him at a c...
April 27, 2011, is a day most Kano voters will not forget. It is a day the majority of Kano people decided to come out en mass to vote for the leader and initiator of the “Red Cap Revolution” Engineer Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, as the seventh de...
Senator Mohammed Magoro, who represents Kebbi South in the Senate, heads the Senate Committee on Security and National Intelligence. In this interview with Soni Daniel and Ruth Choji, the former Internal Affairs Minister, speaks on how Nigeria can over...
Dr. Sam Amadi, the chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), in this interview with JULIET ALOHAN, speaks on the age-long corruption that has bedeviled the electricity industry and the findings of the probe committee set up by ...
The 50th birth anniversary of the Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of LEADERSHIP Newspapers Group, Mr. Sam Nda-Isaiah, has come and gone. The August occasion, which metamorphosed from “a morning of reflections” to a frank talkshop on burning is...
Brief comments by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, National Leader, Action Congress of Nigeria at the 50th birthday celebration of Sam Nda-Isaiah, publisher of Leadership Newspapers, May 1, 2012 That today we are still trying to locate where we missed...
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, former governor of Lagos State Sam is younger than Nigeria’s independence but wiser than the independence, more truthful and sincere than the independence. Congratulation! You have lived the mission statement of LEADERSHIP ve...
Close up, he emits energy, reminiscent of an active volcano. In a sense, he is one. At the level of small talk, you could hardly get the better of Mr. Sam Nda-Isaiah, founding Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of the LEADERSHIP Newspapers Group. After prima...