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SEGUN ODEGBAMI: Change is coming to Nigerian Sports – finally!!

There is the prospect of a genuine sports revolution in the air. There is a refreshing spirit across the land. There are glimpses of a new dawn for the entire sports sector through the developments in football.  Beyond sport, there are also emerging, the faint outlines of a new nation from 2027. Things are coming […]
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The Nigerian elite’s aversion to competition

LAST week through this column I discussed social mobility as a means to tackle corruption: if talent and merit determined success, corruption which exists and is facilitated in part because the wrong sort of individuals have access to government positions, etc., would be lessened. But why are people corrupt in Nigeria? It is important to tackle this question beyond the obvious answer, being greed and a desire for an increase in economic clout or status.

Letter to Governor Shettima

KINDLY take a few minutes of your time to read through this letter which I hope should meet you in peace.Let me plead with you to read the fairly long one as I don’t think I will ever have to write you again for the rest of your tenure as a governor.

Sensible path to stronger Naira, economic prosperity

This column has consistently maintained that the root cause of our economic paradox of increasing income, with unbridled rate of unemployment, and deepening poverty will be found in the conscious but incorrect adoption of a faulty and distortional process for the infusion of our crude export dollar revenue into the economy.

Sensible path to stronger Naira, economic prosperity

This column has consistently maintained that the root cause of our economic paradox of increasing income, with unbridled rate of unemployment, and deepening poverty will be found in the conscious but incorrect adoption of a faulty and distortional process for the infusion of our crude export dollar revenue into the economy.

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