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Going by available records, Robert Gabriel Mugabe was born on February 21, 1924, in Kutama, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). In 1963, he founded ZANU, a resistance movement against British colonial rule. Mugabe became Prime Minister of the new Republic of Zimbabwe after British rule ended in 1980, and he assumed …

Two separate but similar reports that left me lost in the maze of high voltage confusion in the past few weeks or thereabout are; the FBI’s release of the names of eighty suspects involved in internet fraud-related cases, with 77 of them Nigerians. And from their names, Nigerians have identified …

On the 17th day of August 2019 will continually be remembered by all indigenes of Abavo in Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State in particular and Ika nation as a whole. It was the day the Dan Usifo-led Onu Ika Nigeria held its 21stOgwa Ika and the 17th …

Very recently, President Muhammadu Buhari again demonstrated that for an average Nigerian leader, once a direction is chosen, instead of examining process meticulously and set the right course; one that will allow us to overcome storm and reach safety before we can progress and achieve our goals, many obstinately persist …

Asked how he was able to grow fifteen times, independent Singapore with a GDP of $3billion in 1965 to $46billion in 1997, and became the 8th highest per capita GNP in the world in 1997 according to the World Bank ranking?  Lee Kuan Yew, the Prime Minister of Singapore (as he …

Some leadership traits that were useful in the past might not be so today, because we are facing a situation that is totally different from the one that prevailed in the late 1990s or even in early 2000s. We must, therefore, find new forms of leadership, because the sophisticated ventures …

The global object of strategy as used in politics to bring conditions most favourable to one’s own side, judge precisely the right moment to attack or withdraw and access limits correctly have been disproportionately exploited recently by the 9th Assembly Senate screening the ministerial nominees in favour of their former …

I believe the more we understand one another, the more we will reduce the chances of war or terrorism and of man’s violence against man’ – Hiebert (1988) Each passing day brings yet more evidence that we are facing a national challenge -such evidence became manifest during a conversation with …

From the excitement elicited so far, it will not be an overstatement to characterize as historic, the recent statement by Mr Sonny Echono, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Abuja, that the Federal Government has directed all primary and secondary …

‘I believe that when the plundering and debilitating hands of the military are removed from governance and the country’s infrastructure, educational and health system are reconstructed, Nigerians will enjoy a boom of creativity and productivity’ – Ola Vincent, Former CBN Gov., The Tribune; Page 3, Sept. 27, 1998. Democracy, taken …