Speed of economic cycles: the rate at which economically productive activities are started and completed plays a significant role in economic development and this is true regardless of…
Last week, the organisation I work for, SBM Intelligence, released an infographic about attacks on traditional rulers in Nigeria over the last decade. It is an important graphic because it…
There are a few things that the now-retired General Tukur Buratai would say that I would agree with. One of these came last week when during his ambassadorial confirmation hearing, he said…
The current situation in Nigeria’s largest economy, Lagos, bears a striking resemblance to the early years of America's organised crime scene. In the late 1920s, the five crime families of…
I was recently exposed to a person who tested positive for covid-19 and I had to do the mandatory two week quarantine at a guest room in my house. I did a little thinking during that period.…
The African Continental Free Trade Agreement aims to create a single market facilitated by the movement of persons to deepen the economic integration of Africa. For a section of the founding…
We are products of our habits. Work is what we do with most of our adult lives, so it is understandable that a lot of our character is shaped by what we have to excel at to be professionally…
“Such in brief where the antecedents which had given to the North and south their divergent characteristics and policies. In 1906, a further step in Amalgamation was effected in the south.…
In keeping faith with its commitment to absurd economic policy directions, the Federal Government recently said that it is working on the creation of a trust fund for unclaimed dividends and…
At a dinner party last week, I was offered a job with the federal government. The person who made the offer had a compelling argument, “Guys like you are comfortable with staying on the…