It has become evident that members of the three arms of government are far more concerned about their personal welfare than about the precarious state of the economy. In a nation suffering from galloping inflation, massive unemployment and a decline in the value of its currency, the Legislature and Judiciary are conspiring with the Executive [...
•Tinubu “Hereditary bondsmen, know you not, who must be free must strike the first blow?” – Lord Byron, 1788-1824. Nigerians, and indeed Africans, alive today, are not different in their orientation from our predecessors who meekly submitted to the brutality and humanitarian catastrophe of slavery. Most of us are still imbued with slave-mental...
A former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has blamed the docility of Nigerians for the inability of the country to get the right form of leadership. Amaechi was speaking at the 2023 TheNiche Annual Lecture themed “Why We Stride and Slip: Leadership, Nationalism, and the Nigerian Condition,” held on Thursday in Lagos where he was [&h...
•CBN Governor Olayemi Cardoso Mr. Olayemi Cardoso, the new Governor of CBN, who was recently, together with his four Deputies, confirmed by the Senate, wrote an article titled ‘Preliminary Assessment of Challenges facing the CBN.’ In the article, he laid his vision of the CBN, what he intends to do and how to go about […]