Ideas and agenda for economic growth and human development in sub-saharan Africa
There were waves of joyous felicitation at the beginning of this week on the occasion of this year’s Mothers day. Splashed across social media were photos and videos tinted with goodwill messages, prayers and best wishes for mothers, not to count phone calls from loved ones near and afar. The happy cheers were quite heart-warming. Mothers…
Over the course of two days (16 & 17th July 2019) I had the privilege of meeting two of the most incredible human beings one can ever meet on the planet. As many of you reading this are aware I have been leading a project looking at internally displaced peoples in Northeast Nigeria. The project…
Fifty five years ago, in April 1963, Dr Martin Luther King Jr penned his now famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail”. In response to those who accused him of being an extremist and a rabble rouser, Dr King said he was indeed an extremist of some sort: an extremist for love, an extremist for justice. He…
According to official statistics obtained from the Nigerian National Bureau of Statistics, and reported by the world bank in its 2013 “Nigeria Economic Report“, Nigeria’s economy is acclaimed as one of the fastest growing in the world. Over the past decade, the country has averaged a GDP growth of 8%. To put this in context,…
Today I had two persons in a group I belong raising concerns and making inquiries, on separate threads, about what should be our attitudes to partisan politics. The first question addressed the worry that this group, and the members thereof, can become an instrument for the self-interest of aspirants or holders of poltiical office. The second…