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“Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, MAN, Nigerian Employment Consultative Association of Nigeria, NECA, and other business groups in Nigeria would be best advised to get their members to individually and collectively address the issue of permanent shrinkage of markets and inevitable loss of jobs.”

That was the verdict of a Management expert during the late 1960s and early 1970s. He used that declaration to warn managers of businesses to beware of thinking that the strategies, plans, products and corporate mind-sets which led to their success in the past and present will also ensure their sector leadership in the future. One President of S C Johnson Wax, a global leader in air-fresheners, insecticides and other industrial chemicals, in the early 1990s warned his global managers against complacency – which eventually afflicts successful companies or organisations. As American best selling author of the book, THE BRIGHTEST AND THE BEST, David Halberstam said about victorious Generals, “Most Generals are good at fighting the last war.

When Edo State workers started jubilations over the offer of N70,000 Minimum Wage offered by out-going Governor Obaseki, it was clear that the last nail on the coffin of Organised Labour’s ambitions regarding the matter had been hammered in.

BY the time your read this article, the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, would have increased interest rates for the fourth time since Yemi Cardoso was appointed governor.