Obadiah Mailafia

I am honoured to have been asked to address this meeting of the Financial Services Regulation Coordinating…

A German friend once had the temerity to tell me to my face that “the state in Africa has no future”. That was in…

Aristotle famously described politics as ‘the master science’. In our twenty-first century integrated global…

Last week we considered the theoretical/policy foundations of economic diversification. We strenuously made the…

There are only two things we Nigerians truly worship: money and power. In some of my moments of…

A great American popular novelist once began one of his epic fables with the opening lines about its…

All is not well with the soul of Nigeria. Unless we want to indulge in self-deceit we must acknowledge…

Leadership is an age-old problem in political philosophy as well as in the more modern science of…

The ongoing recession occasioned by the collapse of global oil prices and its attendant fiscal…

When I was a scruffy teenage undergraduate at Ahmadu Bello University, Fela visited us. The legendary…

According to the Vedas of ancient India, men are playthings in the hands of fate. It would seem that destiny had…

Last week Monday 4th of July, precisely a week to the day, a rather unusual ceremony took place at Entebbe Airport,…