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Any society that earnestly desires speedy development will naturally ensure the emergence of people with untainted records within the leadership sphere.

Aside from the unprecedented exploits of Professor Gregory Ikechukwu Ibe, OFR succinctly adumbrated in the first part of this serial, do not tell us that you are not aware that he also pledged $1 million to COVID-19 research

My mentor Stephen R. Covey first gives me the opportunity to see the Berlin wall on a DVD attached to his famous book the ‘Eight Habit’. It was a devastating experience for me, seeing a sudden wall dividing east and west of Berlin. I saw every pain to humanity, genocide, rape, unending cries, stealing, suicide, murder, inhuman treatment, aches to women, children, young people and many more discomforting pains

He isn’t a passive spectator in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). He is one of the pioneers of the four pillars (Peace and Security, Developing Infrastructure, Policy Harmonisation and Good Corporate Governance) on which the organisation effectively functions

I am onye Anambra, and today, I write not as a person with partisan interest, but as a concerned citizen, or what our people call “nwaafo”. I write as a citizen with civic consciousness who understands that more often than not, especially in the Nigerian political space, electioneering activities tend to obscure the real issues affecting the society

The emergence of Dr Ngozi Okonjo Iweala as the new WTO DG has been received with great joy all over the world. Her appointment as the Director General of the 26 year old Geneva based body with 164 member countries representing ninety eight percent of the global trade is ground breaking and highly commendable.

Each time, something appears to be going wrong with Nigeria, something great and good happens. That is the story of Nigeria. Each time and point it appears all hope is lost, something unique and extraordinary occurs

With the vision of “An Africa Capable of Achieving Its Own Development,” the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF), African Union’s specialized Agency for Capacity Development marks 30 years of capacity building in Africa

The appointment of 40 year old Abdulrasheed Bawa by President Muhammadu Buhari as the head of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), no doubt ushers in a new dawn at the anti graft agency that has over the years been riddled with leadership crisis since its establishment many years ago during the second term of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

Several national, societal and individual factors infringe on the burden of leadership in Africa and our nation, Nigeria in particular which combine to deny us the classic record of achievements which the western nations and other developed nation-States have recorded over the centuries which compulsively draw the rest of the world to them to directly and indirectly continue to feed their economies and assuage their national propaganda yearnings.