A Message for General Buhari
A concerned reader of my blog recently sent me an article which he requested that I reproduce with an urgent message for three-time Nigerian presidential aspirant and former head of[…]
Category: General
Nigeria’s Missing Billions and Trillions
It used to be tens of millions of naira and occasionally, hundreds of millions of naira and when a corruption incident amounting to a billion naira was mentioned, we were[…]
TEDxEuston 2012: Challenging Conventional Wisdom
Ndidi Nwuneli, Director, Sahel Capital Partners. Founder of LEAP Africa and NIA As I walked into the Mermaid Conference Centre on that chilly December morning, I expected the pervasive[…]
Analysis · General · Politics · World Affairs
Another Milestone for African Women
Fauzia Yusuf Haji, Somalia’s soon-to-be First Female Foreign Minister Fauzia Yusuf Haji Adan is set to become Somalia’s first female Foreign Minister in newly elected Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon’s cabinet. Her[…]
Achebe and the Myth of Nigerian Exceptionalism
It has been only a few weeks since the prolific and renowned author, Professor Chinua Achebe’s personal account of the 1967 Nigerian Civil War, “There Was a Country” was published,[…]
Northern Nigeria: The Disconnect Between Our Leaders and the Rest of Us
It is becoming a tired cliché to note that Nigeria is a country with vast potentials which have remained unrealized due to socio-political and economic challenges of which dearth of[…]
Ghana: Smooth Succession and Strong Institutions
Once described by US President Barack Obama as “a good-news story” in Africa and credited with overseeing Ghana’s emergence as one of Africa’s newest oil producers, the sudden and untimely death of[…]
Managing the “Youth Bulge” in Nigeria (II)
The first part of this piece last week, HERE, examined the threats and opportunities posed by Nigeria’s rapidly growing and youthful population to the social cohesion, political stability and economic development[…]
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Managing the “Youth Bulge” in Nigeria (I)
It was with utter astonishment that the audience at Kofar Sauri Sharia court in Katsina on that fateful afternoon earlier this month, listened to the 12 year old pupil, Sani[…]