The easy business plan will assume that cash – tones of it – perform all the magic. But not in all cases. As anyone familiar with the difficult beginnings of THISDAY will attest, guts and sheer improvisation sometimes prove far more invaluable resource.

DESPITE the barrage of economic policies by successive governments on the need to diversify Nigeria’s GDP, there still persists, a continued and large dependence on oil revenue with a corresponding less dependence on fiscal policy and other contributors to the Nigeria’s GDP.

SOMETIME in or around 1998, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, advertised for provision of consultancy services for the Bonga Oil Field Development Project which constituted the first major offshore Deep-Water Development Projects in Nigeria. BCE Consulting Engineering, of which I am the chief executive, applied for the provision of the services and after series of interviews, stages and demonstrations of the firm’s financial capacity to render the requisite services in respect of the Bonga Development Project, it was duly appointed to offer the services to the Bonga Field Development.

The United Kingdom’s exit of the European Union is now all but certain. Only the passage of time will reveal what their new relationship shall be. But with this new arrangement, I – like many other Commonwealth leaders – also seek a new settlement: not only of closer relations between the UK and my own nation, but of unleashing trade within the club in which we together shall remain.

A lot has been written about the introduction of the region wide security outfit for the Southwest, known as Àmọ̀tẹ́kùn. Much of it is built around emotions. And as my readers may have noticed, I am not a NICE man. I am a WISE man. I deal with facts. I do not deal in emotions.