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 […]
In a season of partisan frenzy, fair, objective assessment of human development issues and governance has taken flight. This is even more so when folks who pretend to evaluate these issues are charlatans dressed up as objective assessors. Under this garb, they glibly push twisted, […]
Let me start by congratulating President-to-be, Atiku Abubakar, for his success at the recent PDP Primary and I took note of his gracious remarks in his acceptance speech that it all started here. Yes, when it started, it was meant for Atiku to succeed Obasanjo. […]
The Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria Nsukka, Prof. Benjamin Chukwuma Ozumba, speaks with Humphrey Onyima, the publisher of Leadership SCORECARD in the wake of the 58th Founders’ Day Lecture/ Special Convocation held within the grounds of the university in Enugu State recently. How […]
Ethiopian president Mulatu Teshome has announced that the country will in due course roll out a visa-on-arrival regime for all Africans entering the country. In other words, there would be no need for Africans to necessarily apply for visas before flying into the country. All […]
President Donald Trump is expected within days to approve an initiative to overhaul the US investment strategy in Africa. Leadership SCORECARD learnt that Kenya is likely to benefit from the plan designed by key figures in the US Congress in response to China’s enhanced economic […]
Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea, which has been condemned as one of the worst suppressors of religious freedom in the world, has invited Pope Francis to visit his country, South Korea’s government said recently. Leadership SCORECARD gathered that the invitation will be relayed […]
EU citizens will no longer be given priority to live and work in Britain in a radical overhaul of immigration policy after Brexit, Theresa May has said, admitting Britons may in turn have to apply for US-style visas to visit and work in Europe. Leadership […]
The much-awaited conventions of the two dominant parties – the ruling All Progressives’ Congress (APC) and the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) – took place recently in Abuja and Port Harcourt, Rivers State, respectively. While that of the APC was a mere formality, a […]
With the just concluded parties’ primaries in Enugu and the emergence of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (gubernatorial) and Senator Ike Ekweremadu (Enugu West Senatorial), it became clear that failed interests would not let the issue be. No sooner had the primaries been concluded and the candidates […]
Former reserve bank governor Tito Mboweni has been appointed finance minister after President Cyril Ramaphosa accepted Nhlanhla Nene’s letter of resignation. Leadership SCORECARD gathered that Nene had asked Ramaphosa to relieve him of his duties following public pressure over his testimony at the state capture […]
