Executive-Legislature standoff and the 2018 budget

Virtually every system of government recognises the important roles of the executive, legislature and judiciary arms…

Facility management in Nigeria as a way sustaining investment

If we ask Nigerians the meaning of maintenance, it is plausible to expect majority jump into…

What a slow GDP suggests

Statistician-General-of-the-NBS-Dr-Yemi-Kale The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) recently released Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate…

Preventing the return of Ebola in Nigeria

The year 2014 will go down in history as memorable for many reasons. It was the…

The unexpected oil bliss and the misery of the rainy day

The years 2012, 2013 and 2014 were probably the best for the oil industry as crude…

Drug Abuse: We need to do more 

Few months ago, I wrote a piece titled “The leaders of today and the burden of tomorrow”.…

Lessons from Ghana

There are many ways to market a country both to the citizens and the foreigners. Marketing…

What happened to #BuyNaijatoGrowtheNaira?

The famous American rock star, Bruce Springsteen, once said “Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an…

The economics of public holidays

The philosophy behind declaring public holidays is a laudable one. Public holidays are designed to commemorate…

Why do we love to inflict hardship on ourselves?

Yes, there have been clamours to reconstruct the roads leading into the nation’s ports and especially…

Poverty as Nigeria’s new normal

  There is nothing more shocking than being freed from a prolonged season of delusive understanding.…

The economics of public holidays

  The philosophy behind declaring public holidays is a laudable one. Public holidays are designed to…