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…

End of the year, so what?

Sometimes being a writer totally sucks but then; writing gives one the unique opportunity of serving…

Coins make noise while notes are silent

It was the English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English…

Fracking, shale gas and the Nigerian economy

The Middle East region has been embroiled in an unprecedented dimension of crisis of late yet…