Nigeria’s importation habits are old news now – second-largest rice importer and major importer of homegrown products like sugar and...
Africa’s Great Lakes region today has the chance to achieve something that has eluded its war-weary people for several decades....
Today, Chinualumogu Albert Achebe will be buried in his hometown, Ogidi in Anambra State. Achebe was, no doubt, a great...
In the couple of months following his death up to his burial today, the world has risen in unison to...
It is quite unlike Chinua Achebe, emeritus professor, our revered man of letters, the literary giant, the Eagle on Iroko,...
Some two years into Egypt’s grass-roots revolution, the country’s economy is in a worrisome downward spiral. A growing number of...
Africa’s destiny lies in her hands. As the continent’s leaders in business, civil society and government concluded their annual deliberations...
In the first part of this series, I talked about how the unreliability of government statistics in Nigeria has made...
Beginning from the early 1980s, the income gap in the Nigerian society began to widen. This widening income gap gave...
With the avalanche of eulogies streaming in since the announcement of the death of Chinua Achebe on March 21, 2013,...
My growing up days were full of fun and excitement – characterised by the peaceful, friendly and cosy environment of...
The former chief justice of Nigeria, Alfa Belgore, once reminded us of how the German government in 1962 came and...
This is the first in a series of articles I will be writing on the hidden and subtle ways in...
For more than a decade, Asia’s economies have been on the move – and so have its people. The scale...
Work is the lifeblood of Umar Muttalab. He retired some 25 years ago at the pinnacle of his banking career...