Mayne David-West At 70, By Dele Agekameh
At work and leisure, David-West’s humaneness to peers and underlings is infectious: a warm, regal, confident man with reassuring calm, he brings out the best in his closest co-workers and associates. David-West speaks his mind without sacrificing honesty or empathy. That takes a lot of courage and discipline. There are…
Osoba’s Cold Wars and Last Laugh, By Louis Odion
For the Akinrogun of Egbaland, there is surely more to a name. With “Olusegun” translating roughly as “the conqueror”, there can be no better evidence of a predestination to prevail over adversaries. That steely durability could only have resulted from a fortitude steeped in a deep spiritualism cultivated early in…
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Buhari’s Zero-Sum Politics, By Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú
It bears telling that the give-and-take that used to be a constant in our politics has been exchanged in favour of the Daura Doctrine - of work with those you know, work with incompetent people as long as they are loyal to the identity agenda and look away if and…
Revamping Buhari’s Shambolic Foreign Policy, By Femi Aribisala
What we need to do therefore is to invest in Nigerians and then use our foreign policy to promote the Nigerian. Foreigners already know that Nigerians are energetic, enterprising and resourceful. Let us build on this from inside out, then leverage on it in our foreign policy. Nigeria’s foreign policy…
Still On The Economy, By Uddin Ifeanyi
At an annual growth rate of about 2 per cent, there can be no question but that the engine of the Nigerian economy labours and is heavy laden, to little fruition. There’s of course, no doubting how poorly it would fare were it invited to travel uphill soon (for instance,…
Fasoranti and Rise of Nigeria’s Un-Nigerian President, By Festus Adedayo
The killing on Friday of the daughter of Pa Reuben Fasoranti, 94-year old leader of Afenifere, a pan-Yoruba group, may yet be throwing up two apparent equations in a post-Fulani herdsmen-sympathetic Nigerian leadership which may begin in 2023. The first is that, President Muhammadu Buhari may be the last Nigerian…
God Is Not Nice and He Does Not Like Nice People (1), By Femi Aribisala
Niceness is not a godly virtue. We can be nice to someone while hating him in our heart. Over the years, I have learnt many things about God that I did not like. One of those things is that God is not like me or, to put it more appropriately,…
Fascists, Racists and Humanists, Europe Has Them All, By Owei Lakemfa
The irony is that the Europe that produced fascists like Benito Musolini and Matteo Salvini, that gave the world racists like Adolf Hitler and King Leopold II, also gave us humanists like Mother Theresa and Carola Rackete. The struggle to either save lives, or allow them sink to the sea…
African SEZs and GVCs In the Age of Automation (3), By Rafiq Raji
Automation and Industry suggest Africa’s place in global value chains, not remarkable at the moment in any case, may be non-existent if and when it finally gets its act together. This is because GVCs themselves might have become obsolete by then, with production and consumption becoming domestic or regional. Way…
The Dangers Of The Two-Faced Person In Society, By Murtadha Gusau
...‘Indeed the one who is two-faced is the worst of the people because he is similar to the hypocrite , using cajolery and lying to create fasad (corruption) between the people.' In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Bestower of Mercy Verily, all praise is for Allah, we…
