Lagos State is the most populous state, the commercial capital of the country and economic hub of West Africa having held the status of the federal capital territory from 1968 …
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COP 28: What is Africa’s position on climate change?
The debate on climate change is among the most presently discussed topics on the earth’s surface. Making this perceived climate change challenge look alluring was the recent news report that …
Read More »Islamic finance in developing countries
The above tense exchange between the merciless merchant, Shylock, and the Judge, Portia, in William Shakespeare’s 16th Century drama, The Merchant of Venice, depicts the moneylender’s desperation for interest, figuratively …
Read More »Tinubu’s involvement in Rivers State crisis
The political crisis in Rivers State seemed like a child’s play when the inventors first tested the waters. It has now snowballed into a matter of national concern. President Bola …
Read More »Joy to the world
It’s another Christmas, the dies natalis (birthday) of Jesus Christ. At Christmas, we are invited to relive that deepest mystery that took place more than 2000 years ago. As the …
Read More »P&ID case: Impact on foreign investment into Nigeria
In a 2015 survey carried out by Nigerians in the Square Mile (NISM) about the view of the City of London on Nigeria as an investment destination, it was concluded …
Read More »Wikeism and its threat to Nigerian democracy
The fixation of philosophical and political thinkers to the suffix-isms is an interesting one. I got my own fixation by reading to my father words having that concluding jargon due …
Read More »Once upon a Christmas celebration
The mere mention of the word ‘Christmas’ evokes a scintillating spectrum of euphoria, as not just an annual religious celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, who the Christians refer …
Read More »Time to restore ‘universe’ to our universities – Part 3
Let’s study this classic that most of us have received many times across platforms. It is on ‘why collapse of education is the collapse of a nation’. Recall that the …
Read More »Umar Farouq in search of NAMA’s lost ground
The crucible, otherwise called the school of experience adequately world class leaders. Nelson Mandela was there, and on coming out, his landmark achievements speak till today. Unlike Mandela, Engineer Umar …
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