Today’s business landscape is characterized by a faster pace, higher customer expectations, unpredictable economies, and global competition. The key to success – and survival – is to create simplicity in the face of complexity, to minimize the disruption caused by change and growth, and to become an all-round more agile entity.

OCHEREOME Nnanna’s weekly column in the VANGUARD of March 1, 2012 made quite interesting reading as the ebullient journalist captured vividly the true transformation taking place in Edo State pioneered by the peoples Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.

CONSIDER Act 1, Scene 1: Oshiomhole rushed to the residence of the rice man, Kenneth Imansuangbon, a day after his loss at the PDP primaries to procure his support for the battle ahead.

IT was long argued that no nation survived on imports but must engage in production. And so some Nigerians responded and established factories, especially in the Lagos area.

MODIBBO Ishaq Kawu is a renowned columnist and an illustrious son of the Ilorin Emirate, the voting bloc that most times determines who governs Kwara State. In an article titled “M. D. Belgore and the unfinished work in Kwara State”, published in the Vanguard of Thursday, March 15, Kawu pointed out what he said inhibited the governorship ambition of Mohammed Dele Belgore, SAN, the governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in the 2011 ballot.