Senior Nigerian public officers are notoriously parsimonious with their recall once out of office. From among their club memoirs are unusual. In a country ruled by whim, risk aversion is …
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10 years after, the shame of Chibok lingers on govt
The fact that the Nigerian government was unable to intervene successfully in rescuing dozens of schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram terrorists from Government Secondary, Chibok, in Borno State remains a …
Read More »Kumuyi and Africa’s quest for servant-leaders
Most of us agree with Chinua Achebe, Africa’s late literary colossus, that Nigeria’s chief post Independence headache has been the challenge of leadership. He said in his 1983 book, The …
Read More »Bobrisky, et al: Our penchant for declaiming eccentricity and distinction
Man’s dalliance with mindless conformity or his brusque denial of nature’s limitless flourish in scope, content and variety is in itself a disavowal of nature’s encompassing brilliance and of her …
Read More »The general strike of 1945 and the Tudor-Davies Commission
One of the great tragedies of Nigeria’s political history is that, when they become the nation’s President, former military dictators pretend to be born again democrats while former democrats pretend …
Read More »Lagos’ amnesty on planning permit and burden of dead capital
Lagos is predictably, the pacesetter in urban development and physical planning in the country, with its recent moves to digitise land administration processes through an e-portal system and granting three-month moratorium The …
Read More »Beyond money: Building generational wealth with intangibles
In the journey of wealth accumulation, the focus has long been fixated on financial metrics—stocks, bonds, real estate, and the bottom line. The post Beyond money: Building generational wealth with …
Read More »State police in Nigeria: Dispelling paranoia
Frequently in public discourse, debates legitimately seeking changes to construct, constitutional orthodoxies, defective laws and outdated policies, are shut down by folks who seek to maintain the status quo, even …
Read More »In support of state police
“The issue today is not whether to establish state police but how it should be operated. There is no need to debate about state police. The post In support of …
Read More »Repositioning legal services for optimal impact in the public sector
That there is today a general trajectory of quality decline and palpable deficiency in competence and legal professionalism in legal services in the public sector is an unarguable reality. The …
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