The Tony Elumelu Foundation is an ‘Africa based and African funded philanthropic organisation dedicated to the promotion of excellence in business leadership and entrepreneurship and to enhancing the competitiveness of the private sector across Africa‘. It is a programme in which 1,000 entrepreneurs are selected based on the viability of their ideas, including market opportunity, financial understanding, scalability and leadership and entrepreneurial skills. The lucky young Africans undergo twelve weeks of intensive training and at the end; 5,000 dollars are given to each as non refundable seed capital and access to another five thousand dollars in convertible loan.

If the nation is still searching for the alibi of the audacity and professional ability of Software Nigeria, to effectively deliver world class solutions for the economic advancement, constructive development, national security and global competitiveness of Nigeria, the search stops here with Treasury single account, TSA.

Many Nigerians were shocked to find out that Malam Nasir Elrufai, the Governor of Kaduna state, instigated the arrest of Audu Maikori, Nigeria’s version of Jay Z and the CEO of Chocolate City, a man who has made many stars including Africa’s number one rapper, MI Abaga.

With President Muhammadu Buhari’s lawyer’s ₦500,000 ‘gift’ to Justice Adeniyi Ademola while the certificate case was being tried before that judge and with the Secretary to the Government of the Federation’s Grasscuttergate scandal, can we all stop pretending and accept that the anti corruption war is dead?

America has a policy of not negotiating with terrorists because mayhem is no basis for negotiations. I flashed back to this policy on hearing of the recent rash of threats against international energy conglomerate Aiteo by faceless militants over the security of its oil installations in the Niger Delta.