Martins Oloja
24 Mar
As I was saying the journey through the public service wilderness took me to the pre-national assembly forerunning too: Even before the inauguration of the first session of the National Assembly in June 1999
28 Feb
It will amount to a crass understatement to evaluate the back page topic of The Guardian newspaper on Sunday December 17, 2023 as merely classical. Martins Oloja the outgoing Managing Director of Nigeria’s flagship print media organisation
14 Jan
I posed this same question to former President Muhammadu Buhari here on Sunday July 24, 2022. I noted then that this is a time to be cynical and censorious about the state of the nation.
9 Jan
In continuation of the restructuring of its operations, Mr Toke Alex-Ibru has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of The Guardian.
24 Dec
Let’s study this classic that most of us have received many times across platforms. It is on ‘why collapse of education is the collapse of a nation’.
Recall that the following words posted at the entrance gate of a South African university
15 Dec
Thirty-two years of Abuja as seat of power, keen watchers of developments in the country’s capital have insisted that the position of a Mayor be created to facilitate the growth of democracy in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
14 Dec
To make the country’s education system globally competitive and attractive to international students, there is an urgent need for the government to adopt policies that would encourage ‘home-based’ scholars and draw foreign learners and researchers.
8 Dec
Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian, Martins Oloja, yesterday, described Nigeria’s education system as a ticking time bomb due to poor policies, inadequate investment and lack of commitment on the part of policymakers.
5 Dec
Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian, Martins Oloja, will, on Thursday, December 7, 2023, deliver the 12th convocation lecture of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko (AAUA), Ondo State.
12 Nov
The oracles have looked again into the seeds of time again and seen that soon and very soon, the political establishment in Nigeria will take advantage of the unfavourable climate in the political economy of a free press to move against good journalism.
3 Nov
Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian, Martins Oloja, Chairman of Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission (ICPC), Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye and his predecessor, Ekpo Nta, yesterday converged on Abuja ...
15 Oct 2023
In a bid to find a lasting solution to the lingering farmers/herders conflicts that has negatively impacted the agriculture sector, Nigeria is set to raise over N2.5tr, within the next five years on investment in the livestock sector of the economy.
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Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Abubakar Kyari, yesterday, urged researchers and institutes in the agricultural sector to align their research with President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda on food security to have enough food to feed Nigerians.
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Nigeria may face worse power outages given rising attacks on transmission infrastructure, a development the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) blamed for grid collapse.
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Nigeria Copyright Commission (NCC) has dedicated this year’s edition of World Book and Copyright Day to Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, for his dedication to the promotion of reading culture and the protection of copyright.
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Report released yesterday by an international child rights group, Save the Children, indicated that about 15.6 million children in Nigeria faced hunger as the lean season starts in June.
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Government at all levels have been enjoined to activate policies aimed at encouraging learning among children.
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Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered that the charges on alleged N80.2 billion fraud filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against former Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, be served through his lawyer, Abdulwahab Mohammed.
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Residents of Taraba, Gombe and Adamawa states are facing severe hardship as a result of widespread power outage, which has crippled businesses and exacerbated economic challenges in the region.
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President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), Prof Cyril Usifoh, has lamented the danger of substandard medicines, warning that they pose a significant threat to public health.
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Nigeria Development and Finance Forum (NDFF) 2024 Conference is set to strengthen the momentum for Nigeria’s economic growth and catalyse development in the country’s blue and green economies, the organisers have said.