Herbert Wigwe’s Burden
It’s uncertain that he knew the town hall video meeting would leak. When Herbert Wigwe, the Managing Director and CEO of Access Bank hosted a virtual town hall with his…
It’s uncertain that he knew the town hall video meeting would leak. When Herbert Wigwe, the Managing Director and CEO of Access Bank hosted a virtual town hall with his…
Senegal is country with roughly the same population with Kano State in Nigeria. There are maybe two million more people there than in Kano, which has about 14 million people.…
Before the COVID-19 pandemic only very few people in Abuja knew where the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Test Laboratory is located in city. Tucked in somewhere inside Gaduwa,…
Following a string of suspicious deaths in Kano last week some have said the state, arguably Nigeria’s most populous, could be Nigeria’s Italy. They are wrong and right. They are…
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the extent of political distancing between the government and the people of Nigeria. The government is so detached that during a nationwide emergency, it is…
Three months ago, very few Nigerians knew of the existence of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). Even fewer had heard of its director general, Dr. Chikwe Iheakweazu. But…
On a good day, Abimbola Adelakun is a compelling read. But writers do have dry days, when the muse fails the quill abysmally. Such must have been the misfortune of…
He told us he would be back at his desk soon. I believed it. But now, it would never happen. Not tomorrow, not next week, not forever. Chief of Staff…
In one of his bestsellers, The Zahir, Paulo Coelho said there are two major problems in life: knowing when to begin and knowing when to stop. If, for example, Nigeria…
Sitting at home for a few weeks seems like the easiest thing to do. It’s meant to be a break from the usual daily routine that gives most people a…