Prospects for Africa’s industrial revolution
Let me express how delightful I am to be among you in this beautiful city. Rabat is unique in its character and ambience as a combination of Africa, Europe and Arabia. I am encouraged by…
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The case for a new development strategy
Nigeria does not have a development strategy. For a country not to have a development strategy is like the captain of a ship setting off from Apapa to New York without a navigating compass.…
The tragedy of our human development
Poverty is a curse. It generates all manner of social evils. Poor housing and slums breed dislocated youths that become vulnerable to extreme ideologies. There is a direct correlation…
Land of hope and glory
Despondency, like its opposite, joy, is a matter of choice. A lot of people across our country feel very despondent at present. They feel pessimistic about the future and what it portends.…
Midnight’s children
For reasons that I now find to be quite ominous, the British preferred to grant independence to most of her colonial dependencies at precisely the hour of midnight. The Anglo-Indian novelist…
French imperialism and its destructive influence on Africa
Last week France summoned Italian ambassador in Paris Teresa Castaldo for comments made by Italy's Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio in which he accused France of manipulating African…
The saga of US$7 billion external reserves funds
On request from the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) I was seconded from the African Development Bank Group as Deputy Governor of CBN in May 2005. I left a highly paid and pensionable…
Tell freedom
One time Russian Soviet political prisoner and currently a member of the Israeli Knesset, Natan Sharansky, wrote a lovely book, titled, The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to…
Prophecy and power
It has become a national past time that every year’s end and every beginning of January we are heavily inundated by catalogues of prophecies by men – and they are invariably men – who call…
Security, nationhood and development
As we enter the year 2019 – into another electoral-political cycle -- our country today stands at the crossroads of history. Never before have the Nigerian people become as divided as they…