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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it – George Santayana 1863 – 1952 Let’s take you on a journey down memory lane. Imagine a youngster, born in Kano but whose parents are from the Eastern part of the country. Brought up as a Northern Nigerian kid, he had come to regard […]
Continue Reading“The children of the poor you failed to train will never let your children live in Peace” – Chief Obafemi Awolowo “When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again.” – Nikita Khrushchev, Former Leader of the Soviet Union We started a discussion […]
Continue Reading“The more leeches there are affixed to a host, the less resources there are to siphon from said hosts, per parasite. The ability to only absorb energy, without the ability or desire to reproduce it in a productive manner, is a dangerous, unsustainable, albeit attractive long term method of collapse and decline.” Justin K. McFarlane […]
Continue Reading“The ability to extract maximum value from resources while creating minimum waste is a profitable skill to have.” ― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic “The former administrations wantonly wasted the state’s resources. Just to go to Abuja, they spent N50m. It is there on record….. If you take N50m […]
Continue Reading“Say she looking into my eyes and she seeing designer Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana (Dolce & Gabbana) Dolce & Gabbana (Dolce & Gabbana), yeah” David Adeleke, popularly known as ‘Davido’, is the son of my brother, Dr. Adedeji Adeleke. Davido is in a sense my son and I take him as such. The 27-year old […]
Continue Reading“There is a very serious virus that is killing people much higher than coronavirus. That virus is hunger; there is hunger virus and it’s very serious. You need to go round the country into the villages, into the towns and see how people are really struggling to survive.” Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar 111, Sultan of Sokoto, […]
Continue ReadingDownpressor man Where you gonna run to You gonna run to the sea But the sea will be boiling You gonna run to the rocks The rocks will be melting You drink your big champagne and laugh all along that day You can run but you can’t hide You can’t bribe no one Them no […]
Continue ReadingChinua Achebe was arguably the greatest writer of our time. His works remain evergreen and have been translated into numerous languages across the world. One of his titles that I can never get tired of reading is ‘Things Fall Apart’, the epochal tale of how the near perfect Igbo society was torn apart and its […]
Continue Reading“The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” Steven Biko (1946-1977) Steven Biko was a revolutionary whose anti-apartheid struggles helped to abolish the despicable regime. As a student, he was so brilliant that on some occasions, he was promoted over and above his peers. He actually jumped some classes as […]
Continue Reading“The phrase “consumer society” complements the description of the present social order as an “industrial society.” Needs are tailored by the mass media to create a public demand for utterly useless commodities, each carefully engineered to deteriorate after a predetermined period of time. The plundering of the human spirit by the marketplace is paralleled by […]
Continue Reading“It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.” –Adam Smith (1723-1790) There is no better way to illustrate our essay today than […]
Continue Reading“No man is rich, whose expenditure exceeds his means; and no one is poor whose Incomings exceed his outgoings” Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796-1865) “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen [pounds] nineteen [shillings] and six [pence], result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.” Charles Dickens For several years […]
Continue ReadingDon’t you know They’re talking about a revolution It sounds like a whisper While they’re standing in the welfare lines Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation Wasting time in the unemployment lines Sitting around waiting for a promotion Don’t you know They’re talking about a revolution It sounds like a whisper Poor […]
Continue Reading“Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.” – Kofi Annan “Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.” – Aristotle Late Gen. Andrew Owoye Azazi (1952-2012) was my friend and brother. We had had dinner in a Lagos restaurant with Herbert Wigwe, then Deputy CEO of Access Bank, two days before the helicopter crash […]
Continue ReadingPenultimate week, we had discussed the above issue which generated a lot of debate going by the number of mails I received from readers. While the debate continues, I will like to use this medium to deepen the discussion and publish some of the interesting feedbacks I received. Let me quickly go to this misleading […]
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