In a recent discussion with some media practitioners, I ‘innocently’ asked the innocuous question of who actually owns the reported foreign reserve balance of about $27.8bn? Expectedly, the response was a spontaneous chorus of “Nigeria of course”!

The challenges of infrastructure are a major impediment to the diversification of the economy. The infrastructural deficiencies of the country are acknowledged and well-documented and the negative impact on productivity glaring.

Since the Lekki Garden collapse incident occurred, sentiments have been wiped, there’s been blames and counter blames, yet no one invests to lose it overnight, and expects to remain in business.

THE All Progressives Congress (APC) Federal Government led by President Muhammadu Buhari appears hell-bent on imposing the establishment of grazing reserves across Nigeria in spite of the many unpalatable implications it will unleash on unsuspecting Nigerians.

Last Friday’s Vanguard Awards ceremony may have come and gone but the expressions of the joint winners of the Personality of the Year, 2015 would indicate abiding faith in the Nigeria project