What do Airtel, Fidelity bank and Lekki Gardens have in common?
By Temiloluwa Johnson A telecoms giant, a bank and a property developer. On paper, nothing. On ARCON’s honours list, quite a lot. A telecoms giant, a bank and a property developer. On paper, nothing. On ARCON’s honours list, quite a lot. One connects millions of phone calls a day. One looks after people’s money. One […]
Killing the people, killing the business(es)
THERE is the direct killing, like the one happening in the Boko Haram-ravaged states. Some human beings have to be eliminated for the country to move forward. So, for anyone Boko Haram gunned down, it is one less of the bad guys in our society; such people are not fit to co-habit with decent individuals.
Still on the centennial awards
THE Nigerian centenary celebration was to honour hundred persons, some, post-hummus. The number of the award recipients was deliberately pegged at one hundred so that it will conform exactly to the number of years of Nigeria’s existence. A number of questions ran through my mind.
Killing us softly
IN a famous major musical hit by the Black American female singer Roberta Flack, she described a man as “killing her softly, with his song”.
Does Nigeria need a Guantanamo Bay type detention camp?
THE ramming of two planes into the New York Twin Towers and co-ordinated attacks on other selected targets in the United States by suicidal Al-Qaeda agents on September 9, 2011, changed the face of terrorism in the world.
Dissecting giant strides in import/export sector
BEFORE the discovery of oil, Nigeria had made great advancements in textile, agricultural, solid minerals and manufacturing sectors.
