Leadership and leaders in a society (in this context, a country) are produced by and from its people. The people in turn are what they are through the influence of their social or value system – the culture that...
The most important asset a bank has is its credibility. The bank’s credibility is carried by the governor and is embodied in the person of the governor. It is this credibility that makes national and international commerce go on....
‘The longest road you’re going to have to walk is from here to here.'
Let me first issue a caveat, I am not a finance expert, an economist, or auditor, I am not a banker, I have not held the...
DISCLAIMER: For the internet warriors, before they ask for my head; ‘kill’ does not mean murder and murder does not mean death. Just like ‘drunken’ does not mean pertaining to alcohol and could refer to lackadaisical, inebriated or insatiable.
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Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has once again dragged the reputation of the apex bank to the mud. His recent gaffe, contained in a letter to President Goodluck Jonathan, which insinuated theft of...
As time goes on, it is becoming clearer that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has lost direction and focus, thereby making it difficult for it to investigate cases dispassionately without witch-hunting and grandstanding.
Ethics and professionalism in the handling...
Permit me to go straight to the point by calling on Nigerians, in the light of the recent defection of 37 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the House of Representatives to the All Progressive Congress (APC), to draw attention...
On 11 December 2013, the streets outside the Supreme Court of India thronged with a dazed crowd, hugging, sobbing and not quite sure what had happened. Inside the hushed courtroom, the judges had just passed a devastating ruling. Lesbians,...
Things are churning in Nigeria. There is the publication of former president Olusegun Obasanjo’s letter to President Goodluck Jonathan cataloging the latter’s political failures. There is Central Bank governor Lamido Sanusi’s letter, also publicized, reporting the failure of the...
Once again, Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo has inauspiciously taken advantage of his “untouchable” status to heat the polity and cause political pandemonium in an otherwise serene and politically stable nation. This is not the first time Obasanjo is seeking political...
