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“I think we are reaching the point where, in any state, where any child is kidnapped, that state should shut Read More
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In the days when slavery was in vogue, buyers and sellers met at the market square where price haggling took place. The product, usually human beings who had been chained on their feet and neck, watched helplessly. Although that type of business has ceased decades ago, a new version of it is playing out in […] Read Full Story
Adeniyi Adenubi (‘Niyi) is the Executive Director, Investment Management and Investor Relations VFD Group Plc. – a group of financial services companies in Nigeria. Niyi has over 15 years of experience in Institutional and Corporate Banking, Investment Management and Consulting. He is the Chairman of Anchoria Asset Management and also serves on the Boards of […] Read Full Story
The current socio-political perversion of the Nigerian state, courtesy of the twin paradoxes of anomie and anarchy in a so-called democracy, reads like a fast-paced book of fiction and evolves like a midnight horror movie. Nature, abhors vacuum. That may perhaps explain the sudden emergence of one Sheik Ahmad Gumi, an Islamic cleric as the […] Read Full Story
As far as Nigeria is concerned, we explain resource control to be a system where a group of people will use their comparative advantage to force the government to funnel the nation’s common wealth to their side. It started after the “One Million Man March” organized by Daniel Kanu of the ‘Youths Earnestly Ask for […] Read Full Story
SOON all parts of Nigeria would be boasting about the quality of their bandits. Since criminal atrocities have been down-graded to banditry, the perpetual battle for ownership of Nigeria has assumed newer, more intriguing dimensions. Where is South East in the on-going restructuring of Nigeria? Some indicators: Nigeria deploys full military might on the Eastern […] Read Full Story
For some time there have been issues regarding the activities of herdsmen and the menace some of them constitute to farmers, host communities and villagers. Some farmers have recorded untold losses while others have been unable to go to their farms. It has got so bad that the noise over the issue is loud across […] Read Full Story
It was a privilege to speak at the Ehingbeti: the Lagos Economic Summit 2021 to discuss the merits of following a mission-oriented innovation approach to address disaster management. Disaster management is critical for Lagos because it is naturally prone to disaster as a coastal city, with limited land area and a huge population of 22 […] Read Full Story
There is a deep-seated inter-ethnic hate in Nigeria that’s not going away. The animus, gall, and grudge are frenetically heating up the polity. Although Nigerians may seem to still be going about their daily businesses of buying and selling, frequently, they are looking over their shoulders for the unexpected. As it is now, fiery intertribal […] Read Full Story
After his long engagement in enriching and enchanting encounters with history, Prince Edward Olajide Akinbiyi has himself slipped into the annals, passing on at the age of 87. He died in Lagos on Tuesday, February 9, 2021, leaving behind a mixed multitude of mourners and merrymakers. It has been a rare hybrid of emotions at […] Read Full Story
According to famous French chef, restaurateur and culinary writer, Georges Auguste Escoffier, “Rice is the best, the most nutritive and unquestionably the most widespread staple food in the world’’. ‘Oryza satiza’, as it is biologically called, rice is a basic meal in most homes in many countries. It is eaten as grain cereal mostly in […] Read Full Story
“In a world of information chaos, when people don’t know what is true and what is untrue and who to trust about information, society becomes unworkable”. That was Alan Rusbridger’s comment when asked about misinformation online. Rusbridger, the former editor-in-chief of the Guardian newspaper (UK), is a member of Facebook’s “oversight board” which makes important […] Read Full Story
Contrary to common lore, money hardly sits idle in the bank. It is almost always going about the business of multiplying, primarily through lending. Lending could be from bank to customer, or even between banks; known as ‘interbank lending’. Interbank lending allows banks to lend each other unsecured funds at an agreed interest rate, and […] Read Full Story
There is a popular misconception about saving for the future, particularly through pension schemes. Those who save for the future start to count their loss at the point of making those savings given a number of factors, hence, it is a wise decision to rather invest for the future. This article is to enlighten Nigerians […] Read Full Story
Another page was opened in the history of Ondo State on Wednesday, February 24, when Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu (SAN) took the oath for his second term of office. The Senior Advocate of Nigeria earned his right to another four years in Alagbaka Governor’s House with his overwhelming victory in the October 10 governorship election. In […] Read Full Story
Building construction is one of the most important activities of any economy and a large proportion of the country’s resources are usually used in the construction and maintenance of buildings. The history of building industry is as old as human civilization and the industry evolves with the evolution of human settlement and culture. The industry […] Read Full Story
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BY SEGUN TOMORI As the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) brace up for its proposed National Convention in June, permutations Read More
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Trade in Second-hand clothing (SHC) has existed for decades, the rise in fast fashion since the 1900’s and its resultant effects have however increased awareness and consciousness of SHC trading. As a solution to the increasing problem of textile waste caused by fast fashion, many scholars have proposed changes in consumer behaviour, an orientation to […] Read Full Story
As America descended into tribal war in the final days of the Presidency of Donald J. Trump, Nigeria, about which the traditional ethnocentric social scientist in my graduate school days there, 40 years ago, would explain ethnic conflict as tribalism, sunk further down the gutter of parochial contention of everything, from security to restructuring, a […] Read Full Story
For as long as we can all remember there have been incessant calls for the restructuring of Nigeria along geo-political, socio-economic and fiscal lines, but very little is said about the restructuring that is actually required – a restructuring of the hearts and minds of Nigerians that can only be achieved by a massive investment […] Read Full Story
It is obvious that banditry has become a means of livelihood in the country as almost every state has witnessed something of the sort one way or the other and are still witnessing. There is no day that passes by without a report on banditry to the extent that it has become a normal thing […] Read Full Story
Akin Oluwadare, Ikeja, Lagos State: There is nothing as dangerous as a ship without a captain. It is more fearful when you have a captain whose authority is borrowed by hawks that pose like patriots. Rudderless they call it for experts in the English language. Where we sit today is what they call the edge. […] Read Full Story
When in 1990 Ayo Vaughan, a retired army general, had to make a choice of where to live between Apapa and Ikoyi, he chose the former. His reason was simple and clear—Apapa was better as a port city with paved Roads and Avenues lined with flowers, rich night life, thriving businesses and urbane residents. Again, […] Read Full Story
In the words of Harvey Firestone, foremost American businessman, “Capital isn’t so important in business. Experience isn’t so important. You can get both these things. What is important is the idea. If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn’t any limit to what you can do with your business […] Read Full Story
Nigeria’s president is one of the most powerful state executives in the world. The constitution provides very little limitations on his authority. When this is combined with a supine National Assembly whose members are in awe of the president and commander-in-chief, we end up with an autocrat in Aso Rock. The immense powers of the […] Read Full Story
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