By Olu Akanmu
India has 80 % formal financial inclusion, measured by the percentage of Indians with formal financial account despite the vastness of its territory and a population of 1.4 billion people. The comparable statistics in #Nigeria is 51% measured by...
By Safiya Stephanie Musa
The fuel (petrol) price in Nigeria is significantly influenced by the cost of importing refined petroleum products. Since a substantial portion of our fuel consumption relies on imports, changes in international oil prices and exchange rates...
Introduction
Culture as a word, concept or topic for academic exposition is best handled by sociologists, historians or anthropologists. In spite of this however, a perspective can always be thrown in from a user definable angle, or from a ‘because...
Many people living outside the United States think it is one homogeneous country. The founder of an Australian company told me they plan to enter the U.S. because it is one huge market that speaks one language and has...
BY TIM AKANO
"Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance?" This is the title of Louis V. Gerstner memoir. The “miracle-manager with a magic wand” who midwifed IBM's historic turnaround that begot IBM 2.0 in the 1990s. By 1993, before Louis’s appointment...
By Gbenga Adebija
'Tis the season when the seers and prophets come out in droves to share prophecies ranging from the ridiculous to the even more ridiculous. The “prophecies” are usually targeted at the elite in the society (within and...
By Rev. Fr. John Segun Odeyemi
I have come to a place where my senses are dulled, and my mind fail to articulate the madness going on in Nigeria. I am flummoxed to see an entire nation floundering and fanning...
By Gbenga X-Adebija
One of the major lessons I learnt very early in my career was the art of communication. I was taught how to communicate but equally as important, how NOT to communicate. It is a lesson I have...
By Dr. Dr. Charles Jagun
The Diaspora community has become relevant and accorded important recognition by the Federal Government of Nigeria stemming from the creation of the Diaspora Committees in the National Assembly and the subsequent establishment of the Nigerian...
By Rev. Fr. George Ehusani
The fundamental problem I have with the ongoing controversy over what is to be considered minimum wage or living wage for the poorest workers in Nigeria, is the master-slave disparity in wages earned by workers...