The sight of teenagers selling mushrooms using mobile phones is becoming a familiar one in rural Namibia. Namibia Polytechnic faculty...
We should first acknowledge that the world has seen major progress. The Millennium Development Goal to “halve the proportion of...
At the end of 2011, sovereign-wealth funds’ assets under management amounted to $3 trillion, following 237 direct investments worth $81...
A simplistic (actually, naive) view of markets is that they exist almost in a “state of nature,” and that the...
While in the middle of signing my Lagos book at La Scala back in March, I was kindly presented with...
It’s a long time since we talked about inferior Chinese goods flooding the Nigerian market . . . –Yes, about...
Company description Nigerian Breweries Plc is considered to be the pioneer in the Nigerian brewery industry. Incorporated in 1946, headquartered...
The right to work is a fundamental human right. Karl Marx was wrong about several things. But he was dead...
Reading a story in the Financial Times recently got me asking myself if we were not missing another opportunity to...
The traditional approach to solving Africa’s problems has been to rely on charity and aid – free money, more or...
The House of Representatives recently released what it called outcomes of public hearings held in respect of its process of...
In the last couple of years, notably since the global economic downturn in 2008, patronage of the grey import market...
The conference organised by The Times of London called ‘The Times CEO Conference’ now seems to have become an annual...
The “last word” on corruption in Nigeria may have been spoken, and there may be nothing new to add. But...
In recent years international lawyers and accountants have built a web of corporate opacity which has enabled tax avoidance and...