ONE of the reasons Africa’s growth is stunted is what I call – pardon the bombast – the fetishization of the dead. We turn the dead into so great a fetish and canonize them immediately they breathe their last. Evil men a few seconds ago...

LORD Barnard Montgomery in his canons of military leadership defined leadership as the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character that inspires confidence. This definition dovetails with the one furnished...

PERSEVERANCE isn’t about talent or time. It is about finishing whatever is started. Talent gives hope for the accomplishment of your ambition. But perseverance guarantees your success. Thousands of people have talent, but lack the staying power...

THE remains of Major Isaac Adaka Boro (1938-1968) were excavated from the Ikoyi cemetery last month and re-buried at Heroes Park in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State on Saturday, May 18.

At the reburial was the American civil rights leader, Reverend Jesse...