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Until recently, the naira at N520 to $1 was one of the most worthless currencies in Africa. Now that is something. So much for being the largest economy in Africa. Size should count for something, shouldn’t it? Yet there are many ‘experts’ who still swear on their dead grandmas’ graves that the ‘naira is overvalued’...

Until recently, the naira at N520 to $1 was one of the most worthless currencies in Africa. Now that is something. So much for being the largest economy in Africa. Size should count for something, shouldn’t it? Yet there are many ‘experts’ who still swear on their dead grandmas’ graves that the ‘naira is overvalued’...

Osinbajo has shown the humility we require in leadership in Nigeria. It is true that those around our leaders always clear the road and ensure that everything looks rosy before our leaders get anywhere… They ensure that our leaders never know the real situation about anything while they sing praises… A real leader breaks the...

We hear it said often how Africans are as smart as Caucasians or even smarter. Nigerians, in particular, often appropriate superior knowledge in everything to themselves, over every other people elsewhere. You hear how we get First Class ahead of other people in foreign schools and so on. But usually, intelligent people do not say...

We hear it said often how Africans are as smart as Caucasians or even smarter. Nigerians, in particular, often appropriate superior knowledge in everything to themselves, over every other people elsewhere. You hear how we get First Class ahead of other people in foreign schools and so on. But usually, intelligent people do not say...

Don’t get it twisted; it is not the desperate times that created these unhinged people. The people had been unhinged before the desperate times came, even though the desperate times are now swelling the ranks of the unhinged. Yes; now, both desperate times, and totally unhinged people cohabit in the space called Nigeria. Nigerians are...

In 2007, Professor Chukwuma Soludo floated the idea. Ghana had just done it. The old cedi was 9400 to the US dollar. People earned salaries in the billions, and normal calculators could not tally large volumes in Ghana. How do you express figures that go beyond trillions? Quadrillions? Gazillions? Ghanaians were confused. The gradual depreciation...

This government is daring us. Each day, they stuff their entire arm and body down our throats and push us to break our silence or else! Or how does one explain Madam Finance Minister’s claim that “Nigeria has no choice but to borrow $30 billion.” If that was how past governments borrowed $30 billion because...

Land, Labour, Capital, we were told. They say these are the things an entrepreneur needs to get together in different combinations, in order to produce. But looking at it again, these factors sound rather primitive, because production here is viewed as something like factory production… of tangibles. Luckily we have evolved into more curious souls,...

What we need is a CHARITY COMMISSION that will be on ground and do its work, DOCUMENTING these organisations, putting some sanity into their activities, ensuring they are not here to rip people off, or to turn into terrorist organisations. It is not only about money, or about the Christians alone. Government should wake up....