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 […]
Abia state governor, Alex Otti says an innovation park and a modular refinery will be established in Abia to accelerate economic development. Information commissioner Okey Kanu stated that plans were underway to build the park and refinery. Mr Kanu disclosed this during a news conference […]
The immediate past Governor of Benue, Samuel Ortom, has advised his successor, Governor Fr. Hyacinth Alia to focus on his responsibility of governing the state and stop the blame game and needless media wars against him and his outgone administration. The erstwhile Governor gave the […]
Barely more than two weeks after Nigeria’s President and ECOWAS chairperson, Bola Tinubu, thundered against coup plotting in the sub-region, one is simmering in his backyard–Niger Republic. Tinubu had said to heads of ECOWAS member states: “We will not allow coup after coup in the […]
President Nana Akufo-Addo’s daughter, Valerie and her Nigerian husband, Stanley Obaze, have been married for 14 years. The adorable couple took to social media to celebrate their wedding anniversary on Tuesday, July 25, 2023. Valerie shared photos from their wedding in 2009 with a simple […]
By Joyce Ifejika Dikko Radda, the governor of Katsina, has urged security personnel in the state to speed up their existing efforts to combat banditry and other various crimes. The governor said this while paying a condolence visit to the family of Ibrahim Abdullahi, who […]
Alex Otti, the Governor of Abia State has said Aba will be independently powered through the Geometric Power Limited’s power plant in one or two months. Otti disclosed this on Tuesday in a statement through his official Twitter handle when the Chairman of Geometric Power […]
Lawyers representing the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, have tackled President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima over their final submissions that the Presidential Election Petition Court sitting in Abuja should not nullify their clients election victory over a 30-year-old United […]
By Livy Elcon Vienna – The Nigerian Ambassador to Austria Ambassador Suleiman Dauda Umar (S. D. Umar) unbelievably wrote a letter full of falsehood against Nigerians in Austria and submitted it to the Austrian Police. In the letter he listed some names of Nigerians claiming […]
It’s quite a remarkable coincidence that Saeed and Sa’ad, who are identical twins themselves, both married twins and had identical twins of their own on the same day. This situation is indeed extraordinary and could make for an interesting family story. Identical twinning is a […]
By Alex Enumah President Bola Tinubu has appealed to justices of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PREPEC) in Abuja to exclude the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, and his party in the event of any rerun presidential election, claiming that […]
