By Azu Ishiekwene

Several good things happen in the bedroom, often the place of rest and renewal. Sometime in 2004, Sam Nda-Isaiah and his wife Zainab conceived the idea of a newspaper there.

By Bola Bolawole

It is a terrible thing when a man’s expectations are cut off. Proverbs 23: 18 says: “For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off” (King James version). Proverbs 24: 14 also says: “So shall the knowledge of wisdom be to thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off”. I don’t now know where preachers, including yours truly, found the addition “the expectation of the righteous shall not be cut off”! May your expectations not be cut off!

• * Identifies Obstacles, Solutions to Humanitarian Interventions

By Dr. Chike Walter Duru and Ann Weru

The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mr Mohamed Malick Fall, in this exclusive interview, he speaks on the need for a collective response to humanitarian crises in Nigeria, obstacles to humanitarian interventions, and the work of the United Nations, among others. UN OCHA Nigeria’s Head of Public Information, Ann Weru, and Public Information Officer, Dr. Chike Walter Duru, were there. Excerpts:

By Dr Kenechukwu Orji

The media everywhere in the world fight for the less privileged. However, some crafty individuals and groups often attempt to manipulate this media leaning by framing themselves as victims even when they are the aggressors.

By Azu Ishiekwene

By his admission, Senator Adams Oshiomhole is a lousy product vendor. In the real commercial world, his premises would have been closed and his products banned.

By Jude Ogechi Eze

Never in my life did I envisage getting into the forefront of partisan politics. Not in the current Nigerian political reality. Little did I contemplate the untoward verbal irony whereby someone does the direct opposite of what he swore not to do (impulsively for the greater good). A typical example of this is seen in the gospel of St. John 7:8–10, where the Lord told his disciples that He will not go up to Jerusalem for the Jewish feast of the tabernacle, but afterwards, he found himself attending the same event albeit secretly.

By Olusegun Ayeoyenikan

The National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) is mandated to make available in the Nigerian market the primary and intermediate capital products required for machine and equipment design, fabrication, and mass production to provide an enabling environment for sustainable industrialization of the country.

By Bolaji Kareem

On September 25, Former National Secretary of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) , Comrade Jola Ogunlusi will be 90 years old. His friends and associates have planned a thanks giving service for Saturday September 28, at church of Pentecost, 21, road, FESTAC Village, to give praise to God for preserving the life of the man who crossed many turbulent waves, along with others to make Journalism and its practitioners get to the promised land in Professionalism and unionism.

By Steve Osuji

The butterfly thinks himself a bird: It was a haunting scene in Beijing, China the other week when President Bola Tinubu met his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping. Such meetings are usually stuff for history: Africa’s great and Asia's great meeting minds to impact the world on a monumental scale.

By Daniel Iworiso-Markson, Ph.D

Nothing puts in more stark relief the squandering of Nigeria's fortunes than the state of development of other oil-endowed climes like the Gulf states vis-a-vis the utter despoilation of our oil-rich Niger Delta. Why couldn't the Niger Delta be developed like Dubai, which in the space of two decades,and before our very eyes, grew from an unremarkable fishing town to the Middle East’s business, tourism and culture epicentre?

By Bola Bolawole

Why "Injury” and not Ajuri? The creme-de-la-creme of the country’s media had gathered in Ibadan, the Pace Setter state and capital of Oyo State, on Friday, 7 June, 2024 for a two-day facility tour of the signature projects of the governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde, as part of the activities marking the first year of his second, and final, term of office. Veterans of the media, the young and the-not-so young, traditional as well as new media, print and electronics - the assemblage was from all the country’s geo-political zones.

By Bolanle Bolawole

Just as they say that social media neither sleep nor slumber, history also never forgets! The saying goes that today’s happenings constitute tomorrow’s history. Some of my contemporaries at Great Ife used to summarise History, my course of study, as “Oba ku; Oba je” meaning, one king dies and another reigns in his stead. Or they would say History is the study of the rise and fall of empires. That is not exactly true, though; but these cliches remind us that words and actions perisheth not. There is no “a-se-gbe”or “a-so-gbe” but every word and action lies in wait for us, to bare their fangs at a later date. So watch your word! Weigh it before you utter it. For, once uttered, it cannot be retrieved. “Ohun l’eyin” The words that we speak are like an egg; once it breaks, no Jupiter can collect and put it back in its shell.