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As America descended into tribal war in the final days of the Presidency of Donald J. Trump, Nigeria, about which the traditional ethnocentric social scientist in my graduate school days there, 40 years ago, would explain ethnic conflict as tribalism, sunk further down the gutter of parochial contention of everything, from security to restructuring, a […]
Continue ReadingIt seems real. I lived to be 65. Who would have believed it? Escaping assassination attempts under military rule, terrorist bombings on a London train, near Air crashes, and automobile mishaps, one of which left me with little evident pulse or breathing, and so presumed to have crossed over. That got me the rare privilege […]
Continue ReadingThe Nigerian story is a heartbreaker. We seem, as a people, to perpetually engage in monstrous deceit in rationalising why our country is failing. It’s usually an exercise in intellectual thuggery or mental dribbling of self. This orgy tends to climax at anniversaries. As June 12 began to approach, I hoped for a place of […]
Continue ReadingFormer Chief Operating Officer and Acting Managing Director of former Volkswagen Nigeria Limited and Professor of political economics, Pat Utomi, has noted that corruption is worse in this present administration of President Muhammadu Buhari than it was ten years ago. According to him, the change promised by President Buhari-led government has not worked at all. […]
Continue ReadingAt that time I was trying to cash out my Lead investments because I had invested in a small finance venture that I had helped through the metamorphosis into Platinum Bank which I served as Chairman. As the merger game played out, Lead Merchant Bank was left stranded and more than N200 million became nothing […]
Continue ReadingI know Femi Kusa. He is a friend and a classmate. I knew of him from his Daily Times days. Then we met at the University of Nigeria shortly after the end of Nigerian Civil war. I have read his reflections on Ndigbo and the politics of Lagos. And have followed with considerable curiosity the […]
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