Why prosperity governance and management challenges the foundations of development
By Victor-Bandele Dada Humanity has accumulated extraordinary knowledge. It has mastered technologies that transform agriculture, medicine, industry, communication and transportation. It can mobilise enormous financial resources, manipulate materials at molecular levels and connect distant populations instantaneously. Yet hunger persists beside agricultural abundance. Unemployment coexists with unmet human needs. Resource-rich communities remain impoverished, while governments struggle […]
Only the dead protest in Nigeria
If dangerous thieves, ruthless street urchins and vicious vagrants were swept up into the cyclone of protests in Kano, it would be presumptuous to take a barometer to the frustrations funnelled by the protesters, for no one should predict behaviour when an animal is finally at bay.
7 major policy reviews, actions Tinubu must take to transform Nigeria’s economy
It is important to state that President Bola Tinubu is known for having the ability to “discover” talented men and women…
Family, friends remember Wigwe on posthumous birthday; but where is Lagos governor?
By Etim Etim Six months after his tragic death in a helicopter accident in California, eminent banker, Dr. Herbert Wigwe was celebrated by his family, friends and associates on his posthumous birthday on Thursday, August 15. In the privacy of their homes, they sang and prayed for his soul, children and relatives and in emotional […]
Nigeria’s energy crisis, social instability, and Akpabio’s intervention
By Ozegbe Ogokuni In the last fifteen months, the hardship on Nigerians, arising from the removal of petrol subsidy; the floating of the Naira exchange rate; hike in electricity tariff, among other economic policies designed to revamp the national economy, has been seen as very painful for the over 135 million Nigerians purportedly striken by […]
A case for investments in pharmaceutical manufacturing in Nigeria
By Ify Rhodes-Vivour Nigeria is home to over 200 million people who are susceptible to a set of health problems that are linked and interact synergistically, contributing to its excess burden of disease: which includes the rising rates of non-communicable diseases, endemic diseases, and emerging and re-emerging infections. If Nigeria is to reduce its disease […]
