President Muhammadu Buhari has embarked on a short vacation according to his office on Friday 5th, February 2016. The president will be on break from all his official functions February 5 to February 10, 2016. During his absence, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will perform the functions of the president, a statement signed by presidential spokesperson, Femi Adesina, said. This is “In compliance...
__Imagining new wealth creation models. The talk with my Japanese friend had left me thinking deeply about how we in Africa think about wealth. Maybe, just maybe, there was another way to think about it? Imagine if my teachers had taught me that we are “very rich” because we produce some of the smartest entrepreneurs in Africa… people with the know-how and vision to transform our...
The Supreme Court in Abuja has reportedly upheld the outcome of the April 11 governorship election that brought Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State to power. An unanimous judgment by the court restored the declaration of Wike as the valid winner of the poll by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC; upturning the concurrent judgments of both the Rivers State Governorship Election...
Engaging Citizens: A Game Changer for Development? Recent events have shown that the relationship between government and citizens is in need of repair. In just the last few years, we have witnessed calls from all over the world, from the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street to the Open Government Partnership, for governments to become more open, accountable and responsive by deepening their...
The new year opened with turmoil in the Chinese stock markets as prices fell dramatically, leading to a global selloff. In just one week, global stock markets lost over $2 trillion US dollars! Other news in the global markets saw the price of a barrel of crude oil fall below $35 per barrel, down from a high of $62 per barrel less than 12 months ago. That’s down 50% in 12 months and 71% in 24...
Nigeria is totally blessed and we have a few great men who believe in our country and are constantly flying her flag all over the world. One of such rare gems is DJ Abass! I been following him since I can’t remember and it is more of a ritual for me to visit his social media pages this days to catch wisdom and I found this on his Facebook page this morning so I decided to share because...
THE CONSEQUENCE I absolutely have no problem with those who choose to the option of going homo/gay or bisexual, it’s like me choosing wine and others falling for the cigarette and some other doing both cigarette and wine.. it’s a world of choices and such people should be allowed to do what they like with their assholes but where I stand against such is when this people choose not to...