Unrelated Matters – Feyi Fawehinmi
You guys heard about Anhui Conch (AC) or nah? No? I thought so. Anyway you’ve come to the right place. The picture below should give you an understanding. That’s right,[…]
On The New GDP Numbers
So, finally, we are a bigger economy than South Africa. Indeed, at US$509 billion (estimates for last year), we now are the continent’s biggest economy — in 2012, the World[…]
Sailing Ships
Experience after experience We become hardened Yet we do not protest We become quite adept at biting our tongues We keep quiet “It is maturity” they tell us[…]
A story about Emeka and GDP rebasing
I have a friend called Emeka. Emeka loves to run. Every morning Emeka runs from Obalende bus stop to Eko bridge and back. Of course the point of running for[…]
Protecting Nigerians From The Purveyors of Poverty – Feyi Fawehinmi
Thomas Sowell likes to say that you cannot know whether a policy is a success or failure without knowing what the person behind the policy set out to do in[…]
TranceDance
The music came on, she took to the dance floor and as each song was played,and she stripped herself one by one, one stanza after the other, of the[…]
National Confab or National Theatre? – Salisu Suleiman
The golden age of Nigeria’s National Theatre was between the early 1970s and 80s, when Nigeria participated in cultural activities around the world and hosted cultural troupes from Africa, Asia,[…]
Measuring Bank Liquidity
In the last four years, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has tightened monetary conditions even as inflation moved into and seemed comfortable in the single digit range — an[…]
Leadership Lessons from Barack Obama
Lessons “One of the things that I’ve learned to appreciate more as President is you are essentially a relay swimmer in a river full of rapids, and that river is[…]
Rhetoric Matters – Lessons From Innoson and Bollywood
I’ve written about Innoson recently, so it was quite nice to see a long interview with Chief Innocent Chukwuma in The Vanguard this last weekend. It’s a very interesting interview that I think[…]