By Muhammed Adamu I HAVE not been able to resist the temptation to serve readers this week an abridged version of a piece I wrote sometime ago titled ‘Of Trust and Economic Growth’. With the recession firmly around now, it appears the priority of every columnist should be the economy, the economy and the economy. […]

Zuckerberg started out as an ordinary young man—he had shoes but those were not his true wealth—ideas were his main currency. A young man with ideas in Nigeria is as good as dead in a country where policymakers themselves, despite decades of speeches claiming the contrary, care very little for young people or any ideas that don’t involve their own fortunes.

PALPABLE frenzy gripped the nation’s media last week. Among the country’s newspapers it all looked like a competition, a race to be the first to report that the country had slipped into recession. The front pages of these newspapers reported the news with muted glee it seemed. We had finally made a remarkable achievement, maybe a dubious one.

THE Minister of Finance said something about putting policies in place that would deal with the economic problems this administration inherited. I have never seen so much gloom in any economy anywhere. Our economy has lost traction. Where are the ideas meant to combat our problem? When these ideas appear they are killed by political infighting.

PROFESSOR Ango Abdullahi, a supremacist and henchman of Northern Elders Forum was one of the memorable” VCs without CV” in the days when the University idea was still close to the ideal in our country .It was the period when those patriots in ASUU naively thought that we were trying to build a country and were pontificating that anybody who would head a university must have a proper academic background and requisite academic publications.They didn’t quite know that we were yet to have a national consensus on nation building.