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1 hour ago
In every team sport, there is always an unsung hero. In football, he is often the man in the midfield or defence who does the “dirty” job of keeping the opponents at bay, making his team’s goal area highly restrictive. He is that team player, who ensures the seamless coordination of his team while operating…
7 hours ago
As a general proposition, ethics encapsulates a sense of right and wrong and a conscious decision to aspire to do the right! It is in that sense a zero: sum game of good versus bad, kindness versus wickedness, morality versus immorality, truthfulness versus falsity, where the ethical choice must always be that which is just,…
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Recently,, African leaders gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, for the first-ever African Climate Summit. The event, hosted by the African Union (AU) and the Kenyan government, brought together world leaders, climate activists, and policy experts to find solutions to one of the continent’s most complex and devastating crises. Since the start of 2022, extreme weather events…
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Reflections
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A common thread for every individual in society is the fact that they emerge from a family. Whether complete or broken, all humans are linked to a father, mother, and possibly siblings. Indeed, the family is the first contact a child has with society and the first influence on their views, abilities, and outcomes. If…
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The appointment of Bashir Adewale Adeniyi as the Acting Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) was received by many Nigerians with great joy and exhilaration. It is imperative to state from the outset that his appointment was not fortuituous. Rather it was a well thought-out decision by President Bola Tinubu in line with his…
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Powerful and even dreaded world leaders be they, Joe Biden of the United States, Vdlamir Putin of Russia, or Chinese Xi Jinping, are made; so also are billionaires, presidents and natural rulers (monarchs), they are all made. However, stars and geniuses are born. They are not just born, they are exclusively born exclusively for exclusive…
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Sir: Long before the recent visit of Adeyemo, the Nigerian-born top American technocrat to engage in an interactive session with students of the Lagos Business School, yours truly had serially campaigned through my opinion essays, that it was high time our political leaders institute an annual forum to brain-storm with Nigeria’s best of brains. That…
7 hours ago
The suggestion by the Police Service Commission (PSC) that the police, rather than the military, be allowed to lead the war against terrorism is credible to the extent that such an arrangement may open up the possibility of prosecuting and perhaps securing the conviction of the terrorists. This indeed is what a former Inspector General…
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Media relations in Public Relations is about building relationships with members of the press. It refers to the mutually beneficial relationship between journalists and PR professionals. According to Obrien, A (2014), media relations is the systematic, well-planned, cooperative relationship and company interactions with journalists and the mass media, including television, newspapers and the internet. Experts…
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It used to be a great privilege and status symbol to work at The Nigerian Stock Exchange up till 2010, before the palace coup at the board sent virtually all of us in the management packing. The rest they say is history, but our sympathy for the system remains absolute.
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The recent statement by the presidential spokesman, Mr. Ajuri Ngelale, that Nigeria is considering applying to join the G-20, an intergovernmental forum comprising 19 sovereign countries, the European Union (EU), and the African Union (AU), comes as a surprise to many.
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Fifty years ago, on September 18, 1973, by New York’s East River, two German states joined the United Nations. This event was the result of a brief General Assembly resolution – however, it was anything but routine business in the world of diplomacy.

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