To state that we live in challenging times is perhaps an understatement and does very little justice in accurately capturing our current realities. Those realities include a world faced with…
“You can’t manage what you can’t measure,” posits management thinker, Peter Drucker. And that was one of the reasons that got the Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to embark on a…
For close two decades now, successive Nigerian governments have been trying to remove the subsidy paid on the use of petrol by citizens. None has been able to muster the…
The strife is o’er, the battle done. But it was by no means easy. It took so much: tact, diplomacy, guts, deft footworks, prayers, yes, prayers, and so many other…
When a journalist asked Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, a former minister with immense political capital, a simple question during a press conference, all Nigerians saw the lack of respect with which…
International NGOs, research institutions and public health experts in are still scratching their heads over why Africa remains the lowest hit continent from the coronavirus pandemic. The irony is that…
I am borrowing the title of a 1975 book by Nkem Nwankwo to express my thoughts today. Published by Heinemann African Writers Series, it is the story of postcolonial Nigerian…
In many parts of the world, providing housing for the poor can be a politically touchy subject. In Western Europe at least, no matter how affluent a neighborhood is, provisions…
The Bini word “Nosagie” (“Osagie” for short) translates roughly as “the one sent by God”. For incumbent Edo governor, the invocation of “Godwin” undoubtedly served as a talisman in his…
Let me give the background to this piece. I was reading some comments on Twitter early in the week, when I ran into this one by one Dr. Ben Gbenro:…