Lagos and the coming rains
While some parts of the country experienced flooding of greater dimension last year, the situation in Lagos…
Pope Francis the politician
Jorge Mario Bergoglio – not an Italian, not a European, but a Latin American from Argentina – has now been…
Enabling growth of local construction firms
One of the surest indicators of growth in any economy is the construction industry where the rise and fall of…
Kalu’s certificate, Alamieyeseigha’s pardon and Nigerian…
Everything Nigerian is magical. Our economy is magical and that is why we have a phenomenal growth that…
Lagos and the challenge of widening the tax net
All over the world, without taxes to fund their activities, governments can hardly make progress0.…
Commodities on the rise
The commodity super-cycle – in which commodity prices reach ever-higher highs, and fall only to higher lows –…
One of you will betray me
From January 13 (my birthday) to January 20, 2013, the seventy “Senior Elders” from Nigeria held all-night…
TCN must stay on track
The supervisory board of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), which was constituted in December, was…
Nigerians optimistic of improved service as power…
Nigerians have expressed optimism at the prospects of improved power supply as the reforms being undertaken in…
The screen revolution
SIGNS of middle age were obvious at a recent gathering of Nasscom, the club for India’s giant IT industry,…
How many one-offs make a trend?
EVERYONE agrees that taxpayers should be protected from the cost of bailing out failing banks. But imposing…
Quitting your job? Ask the following questions
Yours sincerely is going on retirement, effective from first quarter of this year. Yes, first quarter, but hold…