2015 October

It wasn’t much of a surprise when I eventually saw the video. It was an award, and Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II is no stranger to awards. There was a white man behind him this time though, almost breathing down his neck. I thought, ‘perhaps that is what is responsible for Sanusi’s sudden economic transmogrification’. Emir...

The Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRC) has suspended the Chairman of Stanbic IBTC bank, Mr. Peterside Atedo and the Managing Director, Mrs. Sola David-Borha from the board of the bank for alleged fraudulent activities. Specifically, FRC said the two were involved in accounting irregularities, and improper disclosures in the bank’s 2013 and 2014 financial...

I was with some very bright young men and a woman a few days back and we discussed several hot topics. I came off with a ‘takeaway’ (thanks to Fashola), about a much-misconstrued issue, more and more like a cliché, called the ‘middle class’. We argued in part about how the Nigerian ‘middle-class’ was not...

On November 18, 2014, about three months to the initially scheduled dates for the last presidential election, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu (BAT) had cause to write to the then President Goodluck Jonathan, on some ways forward for the economy, which had showed signs of going into a tailspin as a result of the crash in...

If instead of one’s child to grow tall and strong, one hand, leg or the head begins to grow on its own, in distended fashion and out of sync with the rest of the body, that would not be termed healthy growth, will it? If also a child continues to grow, ad infinitum, without maturing...