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 »Opinions
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 »Kayode Akinmade: 2023 in retrospect: Dapo Abiodun’s rising profile
To all intents and purposes, 2023 has been an eventful year in Nigeria’s Gateway State. It is a year that will be remembered by Governor Dapo Abiodun for a very …
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 »Frank Ovie-Kokori (1944-2023)
The death of Olorogun Frank Ovie-Kokori marks the end of an era of active unionism mixed with positive politics; and is yet another loss to the nation. Chief Kokori who …
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 …
Read More »Remittances: Navigating the future through regulatory harmonisation
Sending remittances is still expensive globally, with an average cost of 6.20 per cent of the amount sent, surpassing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) target of three percent. This underscores …
Read More »An itinerant jurist, unfinished honeymoon and a judicial transaction
Supreme Courts are places where lawyers and judges regularly encounter one another. On November 17, 2023, one of such encounters occurred, not in the regular halls of Nigeria’s Supreme Court …
Read More »The burden of emerging infectious diseases
Nigerians were shocked when the World Health Organisation (WHO) recently officially declared a fresh outbreak of corona virus disease in Benue State, revealing a total of 25 newly confirmed cases …
Read More »