Mrs Ibukun Awosika,  former chairman of First Bank Plc, FBN, was reported in a national newspaper insisting that the Board did the right thing in sacking the reinstated Managing Director, Dr Adesola Adeduntan. Before bringing some of the published text of Mrs Awosika’s assertion, permit me to provide some background information to this article.

For the second time since I started writing columns for Vanguard in 1987, an organisation in the public and private sectors has proved me wrong, and I am absolutely delighted to admit it. When Polaris Bank was created out of the ashes of Skye Bank in 2018, I gave the new bank no chance for survival. 

Sometimes, there is divine intervention in what a regular columnist publishes. I had prepared another article which more or less told Nigerians to be prepared to eat grass as millions of farmers have now abandoned their farms. My Personal Assistant, PA, was asked to send it to the newspapers and online publications. 

Swift did not say what mankind should do when confronted with whoever could make one ear of corn or one blade of grass grow where two once grew. But, that is the predicament in which Nigerians find themselves in 2021. Under President Buhari, the current year might be the first year in the history of Nigeria when millions of farmers will desert their farms. Consequently, not one ear of corn will grow where two formerly did; none might grow.

We can’t pay full March salary over drop in allocation.” Malam Muhammad Garba, Kano State Commissioner for Information.