AMERICA has long been regarded as Nigeria’s strategic ally. In fact, Nigeria has essentially been modelled after the USA. When oil boom derailed our economy in the 1970s and 1980s, we set out to transfer the economy to the private sector. We removed government from the business of doing business. Before then in 1979, we […]

As the Roman historian, Plutarch (AD 46-120?) had noted “The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” Given their corrupt and greedy lifestyles, Nigeria’s leaders do not seem to care about integrity or moral values. They are good at predicting the future without creating it. As Peter Drucker has observed, “If you want to predict the future, create it.”

If one puts Honda’s planned production of 1,000 per annum beside that figure it is a drop in the ocean. Honda’s entry is a good start and a vote of confidence in the sustainable buying power of Nigerians but it will not make a dent any time soon. For the near future, the needs of the majority of car buyers in Nigeria can only be met by imports because these manufacturers’ efforts are mere drops in the ocean.

The police at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, yesterday, arrested a man for stealing $1,400 from a female passenger on an Air France flight.

Ibadan—ACADEMIC Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Ibadan Chapter has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to probe alleged over N1billion that will be generated from sale of scratch cards to candidates seeking admission into tertiary institutions across the country.