The Gardener’s Conceit
Of late, I’ve obsessed over two interesting metaphors off the Nigerian workplace. In a society this concerned with keeping the dirty laundry under the bed, it is inevitable that any[…]
Are we listening?
Of late, I’ve obsessed over two interesting metaphors off the Nigerian workplace. In a society this concerned with keeping the dirty laundry under the bed, it is inevitable that any[…]
The trauma occasioned by the crash of the Dana aircraft a couple of Sundays back is different in a difficult-to-explain way. And the burden heavier than that associated with similar[…]
What to do about a bull in a china shop? The proximate challenge is two-fold. First, clearly, is to do minimal damage to the crockery, and to the furniture, maybe.[…]
The real tale after last week’s meeting of the central bank’s rate-setting committee ― the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) ― is not in any of the decisions taken. In spite[…]
There are more fun ways to spend one’s afternoon than in the company of four egg-heads, eachwith very strong views on the direction in which the Nigerian economy ought to[…]
I am in no doubt that general conditions in the country today are worse than they were several years ago. It is not just that governments across the three tiers[…]
My initial response to news reports that the National Assembly was looking to rein in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), through an amendment to its enabling statute, was to[…]
A couple of weeks back, seated across the table from some bank treasurer friends of mine, the conversation invariably drifted away from how much of a commentary on the banking[…]
As usual with just about everything we have done in the country in the last couple of years, there was a farcical quality to Nigeria’s bid to have its coordinating[…]
We are generally agreed, in Nigeria, that the quality (or lack of it) of our leadership is one of the more daunting hurdles we face in the task of moving[…]