Nigerian News Leader
First with details then facts 
By Emeka Obasi
Those who follow History know that George Agbazika Innih, the first Afenmai man who occupied Osadebay House following the exit of a governor from today's Edo South Senatorial Zone, spent less than 12 months in office before he was redeployed.
By Prof Barth Nnaji
It is my pleasure to be in your midst today. The topic you have chosen for discussion is globally relevant because the implications of the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the workforce are of interest to every person in the world. The Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM) is alive to its responsibility to its members and Nigerian society. I have always had strong emotional attachment to CIPM and similar bodies everywhere. My strong attachment to talent development owes to the fact no organisation or society make worthwhile progress without well-developed human resources, otherwise known in the modern world as talent. Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, and Israel are highly respected because of their high level of development. Yet they have practically no mineral resources.
By Mustafa Ahmed Tijani
In the world of politics, where power dynamics often take precedence over humanity, it is truly remarkable when a leader's compassionate approach rises above the fray. Such an exceptional moment unfolded two days ago during the ministerial screening in Nigeria when Senate President Godswill Akpabio demonstrated a level of empathy and concern that left the nation in awe.
By Bolanle Bolawole
The last few weeks have been taken over by the controversy over President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his certificates. Did he or did he not attend school? If so, which schools, when, where and how? Did he or did he not have certificates? If so, what certificate, when and which school or schools? How did he attend school: As a man or as a woman? Did he pose as a hermaphrodite to gain admission into college in the United States of America? Did he gain admission to college with “ori olori” and “ese elese”, as they say? Were his certificates forged? By him or by who? Did he submit a forged certificate to the INEC to contest the February 25, 2023 presidential election?
By Azu Ishiekwene
In a country of 133 million multidimensional poor, with youth unemployment at 53.40 percent, it would be a pity if anyone looking for an opportunity to earn a living missed the chance to hear the Imo State Governor Hope Uzodinma recently.
By Funke Egbemode
It is easy to blame bad children, convenient to curse those who sell drugs to them or lure them into cults and gangs. But didn’t someone give birth to and raise them, all of them, cultists, gangsters and the victims? These plenty little demons giving us reason to do candle-light procession for our young ones, did they drop from the sky? How did things get this bad with our once pretty babies with fluffy curly hair and fat legs? How did our fine boys who gave us heart-melting wide toothless grins become men we can no longer recognise? When you hear some terrifying stories of what 25-year-olds are up to these days, you can’t help but wonder if these were ever babies wearing I-love-mummy bibs or sucking their mothers’ breasts with let-us-pray seriousness, one fat leg in the air. Or do you not wonder how a baby who once cried relentlessly just for his mother’s nipples metamorphosed into a ritualist who strangled his father for Yahoo Plus money-making rites? How did the bubbly baby girl with pink ribbons in her hair become a hustler who lured her sugar daddy to his untimely death?
By Muyiwa Adetiba
Tomorrow (Sunday, October 1, 2023) is our National Day. Nobody will be clicking celebratory glasses on the day. To do that will be to celebrate something akin to failure. To do that will be to see any development or any figure that is not in the negative as a pass mark. To do that will be to set the lowest of bars and have the lowest of self-esteem. It wasn’t always so. The bar we set for ourselves and the nation at independence was high.
By Eagle Okoro
Wednesday, September 27, 2023 has suddenly become epochal and memorable in the life of the present administration and developmental narratives of Abia, God's Own State, since its creation on August 27, 1999.
By Azu Ishiekwene
In the Bible, Keren-happuch was the youngest of the three beautiful daughters of Job, who against the norms of a patriarchal society, inherited her father’s vast latter-day wealth along with her two other sisters. But in the sometimes inexplicable twist of fate, this is the story of another Keren-happuch whose sun set before it rose.
By Bola Bolawole
Generally-speaking, the traditional rulers of today have, in many respects, lost the mystical or spiritual powers associated with their fore-fathers or ancestors. And this is not restricted to traditional rulers; there is hardly anyone, family or institution that has not lost something. We are all not as “powerful” as our forebears.
By Funke Egbemode
Patty was in pain, deep searing pain. She was not supposed to be in this place, end up at this sorry pass. She gave Alhaji her all, the relationship her everything. Relationship? Was what they had even worth calling a relationship because looking back from her balcony of grief, all she could see now was a one-winged flight that eventually crashed spectacularly. The pain wracking her body and soul was made worse by the feeling of foolishness. You know how you feel when you finally realised you’ve been used, had, taken advantage of and you allowed it all happen, with your eyes wide open.
By Steve Osuji
HUNTING FOR EVIDENCE AFTER DETENTION:
It’s exactly 100 days today since he has been under President Bola Tinubu’s supervised detention. On the 10th of June, former CBN governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele was literally abducted from his Ikoyi, Lagos home by men of the Department of State Services, DSS, and chaperoned to Abuja, handcuffs and all.
