I was one of the  resource persons at the Lagos-Kano Summit held in Epe, Lagos State on February 28th and March 1st.  I would like to share with readers my five takeaways from the Summit: (1) Leadership by example, (2) Challenge of weak institutions, (3) Challenge of security, (4) Internally generated revenue and the taxpayer, and (5) Possibilities of state partnerships.

The Vanguard Newspaper will be hosting a national  Economic Discourse on 13th April 2018. This humble contribution is made towards broadening the scope of discussion at the gathering of experts and moving away from the usual pattern of exchanges amongst our intellectuals and encouraging dialogue away from the usual parameters,diagnoses and solutions, which, year after year, seminar after seminar, had failed to make the desired impact. Our continuing frustration with every government is largely because if we go by the same route a thousand times, we shall keep passing by the same landmarks and landing at the same destinations.

The dead could not be buried until three days after the attack even as four bodies were said to have been buried in one grave due to lack of energy to dig separate graves

WHEN oil and gas production started at the Erhoike flow station, Kokori/Orogun bloc, Delta State in 1963, just three years after the nation’s independence, the villagers, chiefly subsistence farmers, who were living in obscurity jumped with joy at the amazing gas flare which illuminated their community every night.

As a tourist, your itinerary will not be deemed complete in South Africa if you didn’t visit House No. 8115 in Orlando West. Any South African tour guide, even a novice, knows the significance of that modest bungalow. Its history is synonymous with the anti-apartheid struggle.