This is one of a series of interviews by Bloomberg Opinion columnists on how to solve today’s most pressing policy challenges. It has been condensed and edited. James Gibney: About two weeks ago, more…
Nigeria and the challenge of Christmas
The year 2020 has been a very challenging year for the world and for our country in many respects: the Covid 19 Pandemic, which has sent hundreds of our countrymen and women to their early graves and …
I’m a CEO and a Working Dad. Here’s What I Wish I Did Differently.
The day my twin sons were born was the happiest of my life. There is one thing I regret, though: the conference call I was wrapping up with my executive team as I raced through the hospital doors. I w…
The Watergate-era strategies that might win Trump a pardon. Maybe.
President Donald Trump should stop hyperventilating about voter fraud and draft a gracious concession speech just as Richard Nixon did when he narrowly lost the 1960 presidential election to John F. K…
Nigeria’s Millennials Are Battling a Gerontocracy
Fela Kuti’s 1989 song Beasts of No Nation was the first that the Afrobeat pioneer and Nigerian activist recorded after his twenty-month imprisonment under military rule of Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s …
Restructure now to save Nigeria!
THE groundswell of agitation for true federalism and restructuring should now warrant more than a passing interest of the Buhari administration. As usual, his apple-polishers are showing zero common s…
Amy Coney Barrett a perfect choice for half of America
Kristen Clarke: Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination raises grave questions around civil rights One can’t ignore the unprecedented nature of this nomination. Never before in our nationR…
Lovers and haters of Nigeria
One character of the Nigerian political leadership that has become entrenched and which has not been in the overall interest of the country since independence in 1960 is the penchant of the leaders to…
Federalism and its quaint Nigerian version
It was Professor Dotun Phillips, a development economist then of the University of Ibadan, who in the 1970s theorised a seminal differentiation between growth and development. His analogy of a grown c…
Our very own dear country, Nigeria!
I personally do not know what people enjoy about Nigeria or of being part of it. I, however, know many things that people from all over the country do not like and/or are not happy with, about her. So…