I wager that more than half of Nigeria’s economic problems have been solved by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Walk with me. Now, it is important to understand Nigeria’s economic problems, especially from a historical perspective. Anyone who’s not interested in the history of how we got here is not interested in finding solutions. I don’t...
I recently took a trip to the new Orca Mall in Eko Atlantic on an idle Sunday and typed most of this article on my phone. I started my career in banking just down the road, in a building that was next to the then NTA Headquarters, ADRAO Schools and the Printing and Minting Company,...
The history of governments and businesses in this world could be validly summed up as the pursuit of efficiency. A good government is an efficient government that does the most with the littlest public resources and delivers the most value to citizens. Of course, achieving this level of perfection is impossible but governments around the...
I first came across the word as a Scrabble-loving kid. I could have been around 12 or 13 years. In those days, we would ‘challenge’ and search for words using the Chambers Dictionary. We also sort of built our vocabulary and I would play Scrabble in competitions at the University. I still do today even...
Governments to come must find ways of engaging the people of Nigeria to change Nigeria. It’s a factor substitution matter. “…government must not be afraid to embark on an activist fiscal policy to create jobs, build infrastructure and develop our industrial sector, as well as continue to improve agriculture…. This means government must spend money...
Give it to Nigerians. When someone cannot measure up in other areas of life, religion becomes the last refuge. Nigerians love their religions, perhaps a little more than they love their tribes. Their nation? Who cares about that? Who even needs a nation? We are fixing to start identifying ourselves by our tribes and religion...
In the past week – and perhaps still ongoing in some quarters – we have seen the descent of South Africa into another orgy of mindless and shameless looting. Most, if not all the looters I have seen, are black people, who sort of cast a dark pall of shame on our skin. Why are...
We must think outside the box. For some reason we have been unable to think beyond OA Lawal, that ‘Government’ textbook in secondary school that defined how everything every system of government should be… theoretically. We failed to read that book in the context of history, and we treated the study of ‘government’ like a...
I was graciously invited to a political meeting recently in Abuja. I hadn’t been to such in a while and of course, my political interest in Nigeria is waning, but not my interest in Nigeria herself. In such meetings where there are quite a number of individuals with heavy political credentials in their own rights,...
(TRANSCRIBED AND ABRIDGED BY TOPE FASUA) No one can ignore a gathering force that is reshaping the future of every member of this assembly; there has been nothing like it in history. When I think of the great scientific revolutions of the past; print, the steam engine, aviation, the atomic age, I think of new...
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