- Friday, June 12, 2026
BusinessDay
My return to this column comes with mixed emotions. I stepped away to complete my book, Uplifting Leadership, a book...
The year 2025 ended with the humbling of the Nigerian state by a foreign power. That humiliation began in November...
Coming off the back of a glamorous ‘Detty December’ celebration in Lagos, which reached its apogee in the Eyo Festival,...
January has a peculiar way of seducing leaders into premature optimism. It has a way of giving leaders emotional relief...
For decades, Nigeria’s economic architects and leading entrepreneurs have operated under a seductive but dangerous fallacy: that innovation is an...
Let me first welcome you to the year of our Lord 2026. We are thankful. We made it. There are...
A few days ago, during our year-end review, my fifteen-year-old son asked me a question that made me pause and...
A society does not unravel only when guns drown out laws. It also weakens when citizens begin to suspect that...
Nigeria has spent over half a century focused on barrels, rigs, and pipelines, but the next commodity supercycle will not...
Last week, on December 25, 2025, Christians all over the world celebrated the birth of Jesus Christ, the Lord and...
Nigeria often speaks about growth, as most emerging economies would, but are we really growing as we ought to? That’s...
The final week of the year carries a strange energy for leaders. Calendars thin out, inboxes slow down, and conversations...
It is Christmas, once again, in the city of Lagos. There are tell-tale signs that the season is upon you....
As 2025 draws to a close, Nigerians instinctively search for relief. It has been a bruising year, marked by economic...
The year of our Lord 2025 is drawing to a close, and we have already waited with bated breath for...
