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Dealing with the threat of Boko Haram
The abduction of schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno State on April 14 and government’s slow response has sparked global…
A case for women entrepreneurs
Increasing access to finance, financial literacy and building networks of African women have been highlighted as…
Beyond WEF : Nigeria requires a favourable business…
The World Economic Forum(WEF) focussing on Africa just ended in Abuja despite mounting concerns over terrorist…
ATM revolution: Removing the roadblocks
One of the features of Nigeria’s contemporary banking terrain that has impacted positively and significantly on…
Shell Companies in Nigeria : Entrepreneurship, value and…
The story of contemporary Nigeria can never be meaningfully told without a dedicated commentary on the…
Rescuing the Chibok girls
Beyond the countless condemnations, criticisms and errors of inaction and incompetence that have trailed the kidnap…
Checking the drudgery of property registration in…
One clear indicator of a business friendly environment is the ease of acquiring and perfecting property titles. In…
Crude contracts and briefcase contractors
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), which is a leviathan when it comes to allocating contracts for…
Democracy and its discontents
In Africa support for democracy is robust and rising. Increasingly, the quality of elections is a sign of a…
We need more of Project Save-A-Future
It was American cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead who reportedly said that ‘Never doubt that a small group of…
Gas discovery and investment in Mozambique
When in 2010 Texas-based energy company, Anadarko Petroleum found one of the world’s largest untapped gas reserves…
Let’s copy Chile, again
In 2005, one year after the National Contributory Pension Scheme started, the various Pension Fund Administrators…