In today’s data-driven business world, the allure of cold, hard facts can be overwhelming. Spreadsheets, graphs, and statistics often dominate presentations and pitches. However, the most successful professionals understand a fundamental truth about human nature: we are inherently drawn to stories. This understanding has led to a revolution in business communication, where narrative techniques are being […]

Background My last publication on this topic identified three questions (issues) that need to be answered on the NNPC limited vs Dangote Refinery rift. These are whether the NNPC Ltd has the power to: 1. Supply crude oil to local refineries? 2. Determine the price of petroleum products? 3. Act as the sole purchaser and distributor […]

I was going through some of my old writings last week and I chanced on a few of them focused on 5G technology. I was still nearly overwhelmed by the great expectations, the amount of euphoria and excitement that heralded the coming of the technology to our nation. It was almost attributed as a silver bullet […]

Action Peoples Party, Sim Fubara’s proxy party, the special purpose vehicle through which he is establishing his own hegemony, is certainly full of action, having made a near clean-sweep of the available seats in the 23 Local Government Areas of Rivers State. Twenty two of these seats are now under the control of the APP, an […]

“The fortune of nations has often depended on accidents”, –  Edward Gibbon Knight-errants in shining armour do occasionally canter out of the horizon, not from the pages of some romantic fantasy novels, but from necessity and historical vicissitudes, to rescue not maidens in distress, but their countries from calamities and ambitious adventurers. It was precisely […]

Whatever you choose to say of him, Bola Tinubu (Jagaban Borgu) is a special case study in Nigerian politics. He is the only political leader who successfully installed his handpicked governors, and controlled the nation’s richest state – Lagos – for 25 years and counting. He is the only political leader who installed two presidents – […]

NIGERIA is currently grappling with a rapidly escalating food insecurity crisis, a matter that has unfortunately been overlooked by both federal and state governments. This issue, with its severe implications for national security and economic stability, is not one that can be delayed. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, FAO, as of 2023, […]

The trouble with Nigeria is leadership The late literary icon Chinua Achebe popularised this notion in his slim booklet, The Trouble With Nigeria, originally published in 1983 where he declared emphatically that the “trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership”. One of the problems with the ‘failure of leadership’ argument is […]

By Dele Sobowale “A man cannot gradually enlarge his mind as he does his house.” – Alexis de Tocquiville, 1805-1859”. African leaders also cannot gradually enlarge their minds just as they expand their appetites for self-enrichment and waste of public funds. If you are still wondering why Africa, especially the sub-Sahara part of it, has been underdeveloped […]

I AM excited. After about two months in police cells and the Kuje Maximum Prison, three #EndBadGovernance protesters: Michael Lenin Adaramoye, Mosiu Sodiq and Opaluwa Eleojo, are back home. They are on bail. They join the trio of Loveth Angel, Nuradeen Khamis and Abayomi Adeyemi, earlier let out on bail. Incredibly, they face treason charges. Not […]

I am Onye-Igbo. I Iunderstand the principles of sovereignty very clearly. I understand that all humans are born free and equal – irrespective of status, race, or ethnicity. For as long as they are human,theyembodythehighest attributes of creation, which is life, none of which can be measuredgreaterthantheother. As my Igbo ancestors always knew, and as those among […]

Every year, the federal government of Nigeria publishes a list of some citizens it has found worthy to honour with national awards of different categories. A hint on those that may receive the highest awards this year which was last week given by president Bola Ahmed Tinubu has elicited some controversies that government quickly resolved. […]

Apparently, her divine elevation to the position of First Lady had not diminished her penchant for reaching out and helping the less- privileged

Albert Nelson, better known by his stage name Albert King, was an American left-handed guitarist and singer regarded as one of the greatest and most influential blues guitarists of all time. He died of heart attack in 1992. He sang a popular song, ‘Everybody wants to go to heaven’ with lines like this, ‘Everybody wants […]

Dr. Muhammed Sanusi is the Secretary General of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF. He has been in the news these past few days. The gentleman is my friend. I like him a lot. As far as I can see from my observatory in the rolling hills of Wasimi, he has maintained great decorum in the […]