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I believe that our youth and the not-so-young should be deliberately focused on by our leaders, in solving our myriads of problems and that as we solve those problems, we will unleash value and productivity and therefore government revenue will increase. To increase the chances of that happening, we need to organise and tidy up...

Extract from Chinese president, Xi Jinping’s 2018 New Year address: “Our GDP rose to the level of 80 trillion yuan (12.3 trillion US dollars). Over 13 million urban and rural jobs were created. Our old-age insurance system now covers more than 900 million people, and 1.35 billion people are covered by basic medical insurance. More...

Forgive Nigeria. Don’t ask me what for. Just do it. There is everything to love about this country. And very little to hate. And rather than hate, why don’t we build it together. We the inhabitants, having been socialised in a wrong way, seem to be the issue. As I concluded an article on the...

Left to me, every able bodied Nigerian man or woman should be lunging forward, throwing themselves into rescuing our collapsed country. Someone will say that this state of collapse has been our perpetual and now natural mode; always dancing on the brink and managing to save ourselves just when everyone thought we would tip over...

…we had no vision; no critical mass of visionary leaders who could imagine the future and ensure that Nigeria moved in a way that provided for eventualities. And the few we had perhaps weren’t prepared to take every risk to ensure they got Nigeria where it needed to be. I like to bust myths. I...

We all heard about the director in Kogi State civil service who committed suicide after being owed his remuneration for 11 months. Another civil servant in Kogi was shown on social media weeping over his dead daughter, whose hospital bills he could not afford because he was being owed as well. I received two separate...

AMCON can no longer buy bad debts, we’re winding down already – Kuru, MD (VERY EXPLOSIVE AND REVEALING INTERVIEW. CHECK HOW MUCH THEY ARE SITTING ON AT AMCON AND HOW A FEW BIG MEN HAVE RUINED THE COUNTRY AND ARE STILL RUINING IT. I NEVER UNDERSTOOD THE IDEA BEHIND A BAD BANK ANYWAY. HOW CAN...

…the local governments and states are unable to self-sustain not because the federal government is taking too much from us all (and indeed they are), but because rather than all of us being responsible to our commonwealth, and building this, we are more interested in eating till we drop, while locked in competition with each...

I have just undertaken a pit-stop visit of three state capitals and passed through several villages in the South East of Nigeria (at least the ones en route). It wasn’t planned as it was just a working visit for two days. But I landed in Enugu State, presented a paper in Awka, Anambra State, and...

Nigeria is certainly not the most diverse country in the world, neither is it the most populated. By toeing the line of disintegration and talking it down, we are only confirming our own incompetence and inability to think long-term or self-govern. We are justifying racists who say we aren’t. I recently wrote about Nigeria’s wasteful...