THEME: DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA:THE LEGACY OF ABDULSALAMI ABUBAKAR CHIEF GUEST OF HONOUR:HIS EXCELLENCY,SEN. AHMED BOLA TINUBU, GCFRPRESIDENT AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF,FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA. SPECIAL GUEST OF HONOUR:HIS EXCELLENCY,PAUL KAGAME,PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF RWANDA GUEST SPEAKER:PROF. PLO LUMUMBA KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: FEMI FALANA, SAN PROF. SAM AMADI […]
Chief Olusegun Obasanjo turns 89 on the 5th of March 2026. Through this piece, Leadership Scorecard celebrates the birthday anniversary of a General of War – “The Balogun of Owu Kingdom”, a soldier and prisoner of conscience, president and peacemaker, who has occupied more consequential […]
As Olusegun Obasanjo turns 89, we must remind ourselves that leadership is not merely about occupying office but about shaping direction, sustaining institutions and stewarding national purpose. His journey from military head of state to democratically elected president reflects a rare continuity of service across […]
Northern Nigeria’s leadership crisis is not the absence of leaders, but the absence of structured continuity. From independence in 1960, the North understood leadership as stewardship. Under Sir Ahmadu Bello (Sardauna of Sokoto), and other Northern leaders such as Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Hassan Usman […]
President Donald Trump was seen golfing at his Virginia club recently, marking his first visit to one of his golf properties since March amid the coronavirus pandemic. The presidential motorcade arrived at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, at 10:27 a.m. ET, according to […]
A Chinese envoy to Nigeria, Li Xuda, has advised the Federal Government to focus more on developing the creative industry to fortify Nigeria’s economy. Xuda, the Cultural Counsellor of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China, gave the advice at a zoom meeting organised by […]
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Air Peace airline, Mr Allen Onyema, has donated testing kits and medical items worth millions of naira to the Anambra government, as part of his contributions to the fight against the Coronavirus pandemic. The items included 1,500 pieces […]
Eulogies have continued to pour in for Justice of the Supreme Court, Adolphus Karibi-Whyte, who died recently. The Minister of Transport Rotimi Amaechi, the Nigerian Bar Association, Senator Magnus Abe and the Nigeria Judicial Council have all weighed in with their messages of sympathy for […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians that the lockdown measures put in place by the Federal Government to check the spread of COVID-19 would not remain longer than necessary. A statement issued by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, Garba […]
Health workers in Kaduna State dared Governor Nasir el-Rufai and downed tools for a 7-day warning strike. The industrial action, which took immediate effect, according to a communiqué issued to the media by the Kaduna State Healthcare Workers Unions and Associations, stemmed from issues yet […]
The coronavirus pandemic and oil market crash will together probably change the global energy industry for ever. Nigeria, Africa’s largest oil producer, should urgently and aggressively diversify its economy away from a dependence on petroleum exports. The future is bleak and the flurry of headlines […]
Even as global health authorities warn of potential dangers and misinformation about an untested natural therapy, the leader of one African country is pushing a traditional tonic to try to treat coronavirus patients across the continent. The product has not been tested in line with […]
Africa’s ailing presidents and powerful elites have been known to jet out to seek treatment abroad, instead of investing in healthcare in their own countries. Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe died in a hospital in Singapore, and Cameroon’s Paul Biya regularly seeks treatment abroad. Nigeria’s President Muhammadu […]
Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has, in recent months, shown that governing is beyond rhetorics, blowing the commonwealth, making empty promises and jumping from one country to another to “look for investors”. Leadership SCORECARD looks at how. Coronavirus is here amongst us and it […]
