WHAT RESPONSIBLE AND RESPONSIVE LEADERSHIP MEANS TO ME By Johannes Tobi Wojuola, member Abuja Global Shapers Community (An Initiative of the World Economic Forum) The Humanitarian crisis in North Eastern Nigeria is palpable. Seen and felt, from the lenses of photo-journalists, videos and stories shared mostly online. Those who have visited would tell you stories that…
Finding Economic Justice In Buhari’s Social Investment Programmes By Johannes Tobi Wojuola “We must recover the whole sense of gift, of gratuitousness, of solidarity. Rampant capitalism has taught the logic of profit at all costs, of giving to get, of exploitation without looking at the person… and we see the results in the crisis we…
Facts are sacred “Comments are free, but facts are sacred” When U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry spoke at a joint press conference with Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, he lauded President Buhari’s fight against terrorism and his successful efforts in curbing insurgency in Nigeria. He was speaking from facts. Over the last ten months…
“Grain by grain, a loaf; stone by stone a castle”, says a Yugoslavian proverb. Haile Gebrselassie is one of the word’s legends in marathon racing. Usain Bolt is the King of the legends of sprint racing – 100m and 200m dashes. Haile is good at sprint, so also Usain can make a good attempt at…
With the urgent task of resettling the more than two million refugees, mostly women and children on his mind, and at hand, the more urgent one of rebuilding damaged infrastructure such as roads, bridges,clinics, schools as a requirement for their return to their communities, President Buhari leaves for the middle-east on a wee tour of…
Oliver Wendel Holmes Jnr. is my most revered jurisprudential personage. This sentiment may be founded on a filial judicial heritage or on my experiential understanding – yet a vestige of my filial heritage – that law is not law until it has been interpreted by the courts: a summarized reflection of the Realist School of…
Nigeria’s former EFCC Chairman, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu is renowned for his anti-corruption stance and fight. Though some may argue that his fight was one-sided or prejudiced, the a posteriori facts point clearly at the reality that indeed corruption was fought by the former Chairman – whether lopsided or not. Mallam Ribadu stepped on a lot…
By Johannes Tobi Wojuola The Nigerian Petroleum Sector accounts for over 80% of Nigeria’s revenue, consequently being the largest source of our economic dependence. President Buhari’s desire to oversee the affairs of the Petroleum Industry/Sector has seen a series of unfounded attacks on the President’s decision from both legal and moral viewpoints. Nigeria cannot joke…
It is very rare to see a grown man cry, and when it happens one need not be told that there is a big problem. On the 18th of March, I watched in sobriety as a retired Colonel in the Nigerian army shed tears while lamenting the non-payment of pension of military officers for 54…
While it is disgusting and morally deficient for a woman to stand before people and make iniquitous and inciting remarks, it saddens me more that a woman guilty of this, unfortunately and most unfortunately is the first lady of our dear country – a deemed mother figure to our nation. Her hateful and ill-cultured utterances…