In fact, there are very few things you do today without skills. Getting employment requires skills as you could confirm if you go through the advertisements in the newspapers. The companies ask for engineers, accountants, lawyers, secretaries, public relations practitioners, managers, administrators, drivers etc.

From childhood, trading became a way of life for me. I woke with it, spent the day at it, slept in its environment. In retrospect, my disposition to business seemed to have started from there

Solanke’s funeral was grand. Many British newspapers such as the Daily Mirror, reported that “The Chief of the Square is dead…”In the London Times it was under the VIP column.

Quite often, the deficit between the rental fee of the hostel and revenues from the restaurant and the rooms was made up from the proceeds of Ladipo Solanke’s legal practice.

The entire restaurant’s staff and the room cleaners (who were mostly whites) were paid by the Warden (Solanke), while the warden’s wife (my humble self [...]

Solanke and I arrived in the UK in October 1932 at Southampton and were met by the late Sir Adetokunbo Ademola who was the son of the then Alake of Abeokuta and the father of the late Justice Adenekan Ademola, and who was then a final-year student at The University of Cambridge.

By Ikedi Ohakim

In Nigeria, change is difficult if not impossible because the country’s politics is not denominated in ideological or value propositions but in Naira and Kobo. In Nigeria, the ruling party at local, state and federal government can easily prophesy that it will remain in power for decades.

We have never really lacked men, but more often than not, we have suffered a system that throws up not our best for positions that only our best should occupy. At independence we had the articulate and eloquent Nnamdi Azikiwe, the visionary Obafemi Awolowo, the imperial Ahmadu Bello leading the charge.

Nigeria has become the black sheep of the world oil producing community for her lack of accountability and unproductive use of the oil revenue. Among the OPEC countries, Nigeria is the least enterprising in the management of oil revenue. In Africa, Libya, Angola and Sudan have utilised their oil revenue better than Nigeria.

ONe did not need the power of clairvoyance to see that the PDP primaries in Imo would hardly throw up the best candidate and that the party itself may implode before the general elections in 2007.

Events of the April 28, 2007 Governorship Elections in Imo State can be likened to the events of the night of February 25, 1964 in Miami Beach, Florida in many ways: High drama, suspense, surprise, shock and above all, the triumph of courage and careful planning.

Unfortunately, right from Nigeria’s emergence from British Colonial rule, she entered into murky waters and she consequently lost focus and got lost in the wilderness of misunderstanding.

The flaw in British handover to North

By  Sir Olaniwun Ajayi

Political Power Imbalance

“ON their (the British) departure, the plants of public order were in the process of being choked by weeds of insensate intolerance, the forces of progress were deliberately subordinated to the dead-weight of decadence and unsophisticated reaction/ native tyranny was [...]