Manufacturing in Nigeria has long since been uncompetitive and a struggle. I have some insight, having first become a director...
Nigeria suffered greatly for mismanaging the first oil boom and for the next two decades from 1980 the country was...
Four editions of Midweek Discourse, the title of this column, have already been published without giving the reader a clear...
Can anybody tell me why the two dominant parties in Nigeria, PDP and APC, decided to hold their conventions on...
I was recently perusing an edition of the World Bank Global Forum compendium on Science, Technology and Innovation with focus on...
We men feel awkward whenever we have to demonstrate affection for our fathers. It’s always easier with moms. I am...
Like all asset bubbles, the oil bubble that began in the early 2000s was never going to last. It was...
As the second cynical leader headed back to the conference hall I determined to regain my equilibrium, screw up my...
There is laughter and faux gunshots going in my living room, “Pow! Pow!” I am in the kitchen trying to...
Between President Goodluck Jonathan’s ex-ministers and celebrity entertainers whose recent foray into politics has elicited much reaction, I am at...
I have been watching the widespread debate concerning the re-issued and barely re-written Band Aid song, “Do they know it’s...
In 1960, according to World Bank data, the average price of a barrel of crude oil was $1.63; the next...
About two decades ago, the Law and Order Group of the Nigerian Economic Summit organized by the Nigerian Economic Summit...
This time it is different. As everybody knows, the Ebola haemorrhagic fever first broke out in September 1976 in a...
Tony Blair, former British Prime Minister, was, in office, a stickler for government effectiveness. As prime minister, he established a...