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The time was at about 5:30p.m. that fateful Thursday evening of June 28, 2018 when the beautiful skyline overlooking the Otedola Bridge on Lagos-Ibadan expressway suddenly turned black after a volley of fireballs and plumes of dark smokes trailed a tanker explosion. Just before the moment everything went ugly, traffic was expectedly building up on…

Three days after the tragic explosion on Otedola bridge that claimed lives and property, the Lagos State government on Sunday restricted tankers to designated trailer route and also gave a 30-day ultimatum for articulated vehicles to obtain road worthiness certificate. It is now mandatory for all articulated trucks coming into Lagos to obtain the Ministry…

Making a hiring error could be very costly. Hiring cost consists of both recruitment and on-boarding costs. Apart from the direct recruitment costs, there are other ancillary and opportunity costs associated with new staff recruitment. These include cost of orientation and training of the new employees, medical and background checks, loss of executive time of…

Financial fraud is bad news for the ecosystem as it erodes consumer trust in the formal financial service sector. According to a recent statement made by the Nigerian Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS), the banking industry lost the sum of N12.30 billion to various instances of fraud between 2014 and 2017. It was also revealed that…

Leadership is tough, true! But have you ever wondered if being a 'hard' leader makes it any easier for the leader to lead, or the follower to follow? It doesn't! Research suggests that leaders that rely on uncomplimentary methods to get things done not only harm their team members but harm themselves. In fact, such…

“I need to send a mail, attend general meetings, supervise the upcoming event, manage the production line employees and attend to my health. I am completely confused and can’t cope with numerous things that keep calling for my attention, and it’s as if 24 hours are not enough for me.” This frustration often referred to…

Plateau State, Nigeria’s ‘Home of Peace and Tourism’ has hugged the limelight again for the odd reason. By the dawn of Sunday, just as the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) got its maiden national convention going in Abuja, the smoldering violence in Plateau exploded again and some areas of the state became killing fields.

The world today has grown beyond being a global village. It is now just a click away. The era of smart handheld devices has made the online space the only go-to avenue to seek knowledge and answers to man-made problems. Even when a child seeks his or her parents’ assistance on an assignment in school, the standard refrain is “go online, just Google it.”

Yesterday, June 20, was the World Refugee Day, a day set aside by the United Nations (UN) to commemorate the strength, courage and perseverance of millions of refugees worldwide and show support for people who have been displaced by man-made conflicts and natural causes. According to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), in…

Across the world, commodities exchanges are established to open up the economy through investment in solid minerals and agriculture, as well as serve as platform for investors to lessen risks in agricultural production and marketing. Commodities under these exchanges, referred to as primary products, are raw materials extracted from the earth, undergoing little or no…

Ahead of the World Blood Donor Day (WBDD), which is marked every June 14, medical experts, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), and the World...

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari recently brought the fresh memories of the June 12 1993 Presidential elections, by conferring on the presumed winner of the election MKO Abiola Nigeria’s highest national honours. He also declared June 12 Democracy Day and a public holiday. But what are other historical actualities of the date in Nigeria politics and…