OVER the last decade or so, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has earned a reputation for itself as one of the foremost regulatory agencies in Africa.

Though the Commission was established in 1992, its affairs took a remarkable turn...

THIS Wednesday, May 29, Nigeria will clock 14 years of democracy! How time flies. And trust our governments. Politicians will go to town to announce how well they have performed. Self-praise is good, but citizens also have the obligation to do an...

THE Ijaw freedom fighter, Major Isaac Adaka Boro was made alive once more when the living gathered on May 16 to commemorate his death. The people have good reason to remember him every year. Isaac Boro who lived between 1938 and 1968 was the first...

I STILL recall my excitement about five years ago, when my organization just started consulting for a firm that was in the process of laying massive under-sea fiber-optic cables from Europe to the shores of Lagos. The company was striving to...

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...

PROFESSOR Chinua Achebe had left the University of Massachusetts (UMass) about a decade before I joined the same university in 1983 as Professor and Director of the Automation and Robotics laboratory. At the time, Achebe’s reputation was still...

BY most accounts, save a few disagreeable voices of implacable opposition foes, the May 14 State of Emergency imposed by President Goodluck Jonathan on Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa states is as much a welcome development, as it is a political...