Prof Adebayo Adedeji: An African Cassandra, ahead of his time By Paul Ejime* June 4th, 2013, Dateline – Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, South-Western Nigeria, and mission – to meet with one of Africa’s master strategists and development pioneer, admired by many and considered a “rebel technocrat,’’ by a few. The cultural town of Ijebu-Ode is 110-kilometres […]
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Tribute to my mentor, Prof Adedeji, Africa’s foremost proponent of regional integration By Prof. Sam K.B. Asante* It was with deep sorrow that I was rudely confronted on 25th April 2018 by the news of the demise of my mentor, Prof. Adebayo Adedeji, the quintessential development expert who held sway at the United Nations Economic […]
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18th anniversary of uninterrupted democratic governance which started in the year 2000. It will also mark the third year of Nigeria’s leadership under the All Progressives Party (APC), after 16 years of the nation’s governance under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The day, therefore, represents the swearing in of the first president-elect, Olusegun Obasanjo, on […]
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Tribute to an in-law, and a caring mother By Paul Ejime* It is common place to hear complaints about mothers-in-laws, even among young mothers, who aspire to become mothers-in-law themselves. In fact, there is a story about a man, whose relationship with the mother-in-law was so bad. The family had gone on a holiday to […]
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HAVING been born, grown up and lived in many parts of our dear country, Nigeria, and having been properly educated in the country as well as in many other parts of the world where one also lived in, significantly, one frequently wonders why God allowed a place such as Nigeria to exist at all on […]
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Sierra Leone: Can the “Lion Mountain” Ever Roar Again? * By Paul Ejime After the recent fiercely contested presidential election in Liberia, world attention has turned to neighbouring Sierra Leone, which has its own crucial vote on 7th of March 2018. Both countries share so much in common, not just political histories, but devastations of symbiotic […]
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The exit of a Booster — a tribute By Fan Ndubuoke I can’t really remember how our paths crossed. Possibly at the National Stadium, Suru lere, Lagos. In the late eighties, I left the Imo Broadcasting Service (IBS), Owerri to join the Champion Newspapers, Lagos as a pioneer staff on the sports beat. Austin Mgbolu […]
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Weah Presidency: The Challenge of High Expectations in Liberia *By Paul Ejime Apart from not playing in the World Cup finals, the dream of every football player, George Manneh Oppong Weah, has won virtually all there is to wining world football. In a career that spanned almost two decades, across six countries in three continents […]
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It matters how you get there By Paul Ejime This title is among the several Point of Sale (POS display) messages that welcome users to the very busy Miami International Airport (MIA) in Florida, the “Sunshine State’’ of the United States. As expected Florida, Spanish for the “land of flowers’’ boasts a multicultural inheritance including […]
Continue ReadingTribute to General Victor Malu: Nigeria’s ECOMOG Hero By Paul Ejime* Even before the United States assembled the 30-nation “Allied Forces’’ against Iraq during the first Gulf war in 1991, with all the attendant controversies and uncertainties, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) had demonstrated an international best practice in regional peace keeping […]
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