From the very beginning of his tenure as the Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service on…
Category: Columns
EFCC is no stranger to NIMASA
We are going the rounds again. Power change hands, a new Director-General is appointed, he makes…
Truly, God is a Nigerian
Suddenly everything seems to be working again. I don’t know what electricity supply is like in…
The Jonathan we didn’t know
Alexandra Gillies, a specialist on natural resource governance and transparency, aptly captured the mood of her…
Another hogwash
Director General of the National Automotive Council (NAC), Aminu Jalal was in Lagos a few days…
Reckless Customs officers
A few days ago, the media was awash with reports of three young Nigerian women who…
The flip side of devaluation
One of the major mistakes past Nigerian leaders made was to consider the country an oil…
What goes around, comes around
I was motivated to write this piece by a friend who recently said that when town…
Our lives postponed
Electricity, unemployment, economy, education, security and such likes should ordinarily be at the centre stage but…
How to survive these turbulent times
A very good friend of mine and fellow alumnus of the Lagos Business School recently wrote…
Automotive policy and the rest of us
Professor Pat Utomi needs no introduction. He is one man I greatly admire. He has made…
Olusegun Obasanjo: A master of deception
The shipping sector is inadvertently shaped by events in the larger Nigerian society. This is why…