As Nigeria marked its 63rd independence anniversary a few days ago, one other thing that came to mind mitigating against the progress of the country is a wilful, if not statutorily-approved, waste of government resources. It does look as if the Oransaye committee report that recommended streamlining the Federal Government for slimmer, cheaper and more…
An American newspaper columnist, George Will, derisively described former United States President Donald Trump as King Lear because Trump gave his daughter, Ivanka, and her husband, Jared Kushner, appointment into his White House. Ivanka was an advisor and Director of the Office of Economic Initiatives in her father’s White House, while Jared, Ivanka’s husband, was…
Those who say they are keeping all eyes on the judiciary because of the cases instituted by the former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, and former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, who are respectively the presidential candidates of Peoples Democratic Party and Labour Party, at the Presidential Election Petition Court, are acting like kids whose candies…
Zenith Bank Plc has announced its audited results for the half-year ended 30 June 2023, recording an astounding triple-digit growth of 139% in gross earnings from N404.8 billion reported in H1 2022 to N967.3 billion in H1 2023. This is a clear demonstration of its resilience and strong market share despite a very challenging macroeconomic…
You may have read that portion of “You Must Set Forth At Dawn,” where its author, Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka, rued the reality of he, a Yoruba man, whose country’s lingua franca is the English language, found himself (almost) a stranger among his Yoruba kinsmen, in another country. So, it is not really that…
An old reality in Nigerian politics just dawned on southern Nigerians, namely; that some Nigerians of Northern Nigerian extraction are Nigeriens by their bloodlines, temperament, orientation, culture, religion, language, and history. And they are beginning to look like fifth columnists, citizens within a country that is at war, who feed and render assistance to the…
You may have viewed the video of a former Minister of Foreign Affairs and former Nigerian Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Aminu Wali, as he threw President Bola Tinubu under the bus for carrying the Economic Community of West African States’ load of the military putsch in Niger Republic on the head of…
While nothing is wrong with inviting Foreign Direct Investors to come into Nigeria to help deepen the performance of the Nigerian economy, it is also important to advocate that the same level of encouragement should be extended to domestic investors. When a government focuses too much on inviting Foreign Direct Investors (who come with relatively…
The Board of Directors of Zenith Bank Plc has appointed Dr. Juliet Ehimuan as a Non-Executive Director of the bank effective August 29, 2023. The appointment, which was announced in a statement to the Nigerian Exchange (NGX) Limited on Tuesday, August 29, 2023, has also been confirmed by the Central Bank of Nigeria. Dr Juliet…
If you ever complained about irregular supply of electricity to the office of the vendor who topped up your pre-paid electricity meter card, and you were referred to the local electricity distribution company, whose staff told you that they could only supply what the Transmission Company of Nigeria supplied to them, you would have just…