Military capability: The challenges facing Nigeria’s new service chiefs

Many businesses take out insurance to mitigate potential risk exposures and uncertainties – such as flood, hurricane, fire, burglary, etc. They install security systems to safeguard against theft and other threats, and back up data to protect proprietary information. There is a tendency to get too busy with the day-to-day operations to the detriment of […] Read Full Story

English is breathtakingly rich in vocabulary; by the same token, the lexical depth and semantic breadth result in confusing the usages of many English words. In consequence, the substantial majority of Nigeria’s Anglophones deploy some of these words arbitrarily. These misrepresentations, oftentimes, are due to the similarities in the articulation of such words. On that […] Read Full Story

We have all noted how governments and the media seize upon new IMF/World Bank/OECD growth forecasts if they like the findings (“we are the fastest growing economy in Europe/Asia”) or rubbish them if they do not (“the Fund does not understand our policy mix”). This has become particularly noticeable in the UK, where supporters and […] Read Full Story