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 […]
The attention of the Youth Coalition for Peace and Good Governance (YCPGG) has been drawn with utter dismay to yet another smear campaign against the peace-loving and high performing Governor of Enugu State by mischief makers over the false and baseless allegation trending on social […]
Ette, a community on the border between Enugu and Kogi states, has known little peace over an extended period of existence; no thanks to recurring intra-ethnic violence within the area. Over the years, tensions in the community have brewed, but the community in Igbo Eze […]
President Donald Trump issued an ominous warning to Iran recently, suggesting that if the Islamic republic attacks American interests, it will be destroyed. “If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran. Never threaten the United States again,” Trump said in […]
For the past 18 years, Nigerians have been celebrating May 29 as Democracy Day. That was the date when, for the second time in our history, an elected civilian administration took over from a military government. The first time this happened was on October 1, […]
Members of the New Karu LGA council appointees in Nasarawa Staten have been charged to justify the trust placed in them by the people of the area and give the people something to be happy about their in office. Speaking to the newly inaugurated members […]
May 29, 2019 makes it four years since Rt. Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi was sworn in for his first term as the governor of Enugu State. Upon his swearing in four years ago, he unveiled a four-point agenda for his administration, namely; employment generation, social services […]
Unlike the situation in 2015 when he was in no hurry to assemble his team many months after being sworn in, President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to constitute a new cabinet sooner than later. His second term in office provides an opportunity to revisit the […]
It would be utterly difficult to find one Nigeria who was at tune with Nigeria’s politics during the Obasanjo era who did not know the then governor of Enugu State, Chimaroke Nnamani (Ebeano). He was outspoken, full of mirth and never lacked scholarly words to […]
Professor of Otorhinolaryngology and Returning Officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for Abuja South Constituency, Titus S. Ibekwe, speaks to Humphrey Onyima of Leadership SCORECARD on the topsy-turvy issues the INEC having and the many headaches of the Nigerian electoral system. Bio Born […]
Speaking in Downing Street, May said it had been “the honour of my life” to serve as Britain’s second female prime minister. Her voice breaking, she said she would leave “with no ill will, but with enormous and enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity […]
