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In 2019, I wrote a piece narrating the harrowing experience of customers with virtually all the banks in Nigeria. A friend of mine who is a seasoned banker by all accounts, read it and came to me to explain the challenges of the banking system.

Good morning, Mr President. I am back from a month-long recess. I am enlightening you on an important and ever-current issue in the developing world: the question of strong institutions.

Campaigns are over and unless the election tribunal in Edo State decides otherwise, there’s now a new administration to face the challenges it promised to fix.

Events that occurred in two Nigerian states  last week, caught my attention. One was the award of contract by the Anambra State Government for the construction of an iconic tower at Ekwulobia in Aguata Local Government Area of the State.

What does it take to develop Africa? To enable it to take its pride of place in the world, and reduce its dependence on foreign aid?

Lois Auta had polio when she was two and this left her consigned to a wheelchair. But it has not hindered her from being a champion for change.

In the first part of this piece I challenged the political leaders in the country to be technically ready too with a blueprint for solution to some of the challenges plaguing the country in a strategic manner a former Governor, Kano State Ganduje had done with the Livestock Sector.

Considering recent reports, there is growing concern regarding the sustainability of majority of the states of the federation due to their poor internally generated revenue (IGR) and dismal fiscal performance.

As it is with Nigerian politicians; and in the realm of governance, it is common place to promise in poetry and deliver in prose.

Date was November 2, 2024, and venue was Harbour Point, Victoria Island, Lagos. In cascades, people streamed into the luxurious, expansive venue, and they came from all walks of life.

Transportation has changed the accent of the global economy, at a time when the stratagem to power and progress is not only filtered for the praise of economics and what humanity has achieved in a classical sense, whether these filters

On October 21 this year, the Federal University, Lokoja, in Kogi State hosted the second annual Professor Olu Obafemi Colloquium. It was a great honour of the little man, that is, the man of small, little frame