Rethinking corporate strategy in the age of polycrisis: Are Nigerian firms strategically vulnerable or resilient?
By FRANKLIN NGWU & CHINASA ONWE Is the five-year strategic plan over—not fading, not evolving, but dead? Once a backbone of corporate strategy, its usefulness is becoming questionable in a business environment where certainty is increasingly elusive. The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) refers to this new reality as polycrisis: the simultaneous, rather than sequential, […]
Time to be proactive
By NICK DAZANG For Kebbi State, it not only rains, it pours. Consider the catalogue of its woes: Like most states in the North, it is immersed in wanton and appalling poverty. Apart from boasting of one of the highest poverty rates, the World Bank, via its International Poverty Rate in 2019 reported that 76.7 percent […]
Nigeria’s Senategate scandal
By AMINU JAHUN Orwell’s Animal Farm satirises Marxist-Leninist societies, but could have been intended for political institutions in Nigeria. Illustratively, since its inception, the Akpabio-led 10th Senate was set to become Orwellian, with some senators more equal than others. This was brought succinctly by the denial of the right of opposition senators to elect their minority […]
Regulated cryptocurrency: Why peer-to-peer exchanges must be curtailed
By MUSBAU RAZAK Nigeria stands at a crossroads in its approach to cryptocurrency. As one of the world’s largest markets for digital assets, the country has witnessed a surge in crypto adoption due to economic instability, inflation and financial exclusion. However, this growth has come with significant risks, particularly with the unregulated peer-to-peer, P2P, trading system […]
Keyamo: The Nostradamus Who Saw Today
By Bukola Olasanmi Three years ago, Chief Festus Keyamo made a bold prediction. As the then Minister of Labour and Employment and spokesperson for the Tinubu/Shettima All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, he foresaw a landslide victory for President Bola Tinubu. Keyamo proclaimed that Asiwaju was not just a winner, but the chosen one, […]
We are all Ushie Uguamaye
By Anthony Ubani In recent days, Nigeria has been gripped by the unfolding story of Ushie Rita Uguamaye, aNational Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member serving in Lagos, who courageously voiced her concerns over the nation’s escalating economic hardships. In a video shared widely on social media, Ms. Uguamaye criticized government policies she believes have exacerbated […]
