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…
Life in its elegance, in its plethora of beauty, is but an enchantment of the eyes. A pre-destiny of a creator, it is but nought to what we desire it to be. “Sandra ooo” “Sandra oooo” … “This pikin…” I am forced to awake on the chants of my mother’s call every morning; the routine…
Winning the Anti-Graft War It might be jeered at on the tables of the political elitist: that there is no room for morality or cleanliness in politics. Interest is what sets the tide and survival is what pushes the flow. In all affairs, to clinch power, morality and its brothers of similar lingua have only…
“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…
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…
In 2014, before the election that saw the first change of power in Nigeria by peaceful democratic means in our history, the then government rebased our country’s GDP. Now, by internationally recognised metrics, we possess the largest economy in Africa. While this should be a source of pride for Nigerians, it goes no way to addressing…
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…
By Aliyu Abdullahi and Johannes Tobi Wojuola President Muhammadu Buhari’s clear intention and sincerity of purpose on the “fight against corruption” and “Government Waste” is a common and global knowledge. However, the best of intentions do not necessarily translate to positive gain in realization of policy goals if the right machineries are not employed at…
A lot of times, I hear my friends – young babes and dudes – say that they do not have the facilities to ascend the challenges that confront them. Sorry, but this is a lie from the pit of self-deceit. The story of men like Omojuwa who started out from a keyboard and a will…
Dear General Muhammadu Buhari, Congratulations Sir! I have spent the past weeks since your victory was announced in near boundless euphoric excitement and propitious reverie. The reason is as crystal as ice. I had asked myself a year back, what the future would hold in the next five years. The answers that came sat with…