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Jan 8, 2022

My Books of 2021

While the year 2020 saw me read a record 19 books, the year 2021 took me to the opposite end as I reached a new low with only 8books finished. In my defence, it was also a year in which I started a new full-time job alongside a few consulting…

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My Books of 2021
My Books of 2021
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Aug 22, 2021

Nigeria’s Restructuring Has Already Began

The judgment of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt on August 10th is one judgment that has far-reaching implications for Nigeria: by declaring that it is the Rivers State Government and not the Federal Government through the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) that has the power to collect…

Restructuring

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Nigeria’s Restructuring Has Already Began
Nigeria’s Restructuring Has Already Began
Restructuring

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Aug 14, 2021

Between One Nigeria and Many Biafras

For the past few months, the issue of calls and protests for a Republic of Biafra from the South-Eastern part of Nigeria (some agitators add the South-South) have dominated the discourse. These protests have intensified since the arrest of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the movement, Independent Peoples of Biafra…

Biafra

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Between One Nigeria and Many Biafras
Between One Nigeria and Many Biafras
Biafra

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Aug 6, 2021

Nigeria & Importing Food: The Myth of Self-Sufficiency

This article was first published in November 2019 on another website when the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ali (rtd.) was justifying the closure of our land borders, using the desire for food self-sufficiency as justification. Although those borders have been opened since December 2020, the belief…

Nigeria

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Nigeria & Importing Food: The Myth of Self-Sufficiency
Nigeria & Importing Food: The Myth of Self-Sufficiency
Nigeria

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Apr 29, 2021

Making NYSC Voluntary Will Increase Its Value and Prestige

In the aftermath of the Nigerian Civil War which had lasted for three and half years before it ended in 1970, the Yakubu Gown regime thought of an idea intended to bridge differences across the multi-cultural nation by sending graduates to spend one year in a region other than the…

Nysc

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Making NYSC Voluntary Will Increase Its Value and Prestige
Making NYSC Voluntary Will Increase Its Value and Prestige
Nysc

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Dec 31, 2020

My Books of 2020

The year 2020 has been quite a different year: from a global pandemic and lockdowns which in turn caused a global recession to protests against police brutality from Nigeria to the United States to Brazil. It felt like everything was just turning on its own. For me, it is also…

Reading

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My Books of 2020
My Books of 2020
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·Jul 2, 2020

Building a thriving company is a marathon, but starting one can be a sprint

As history is being written, the year 2020 is going to be remembered by one thing: the COVID-19 pandemic, which has completely changed the way we live, work, and do business. …

Sprint

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Building a thriving company is a marathon, but starting one can be a sprint
Building a thriving company is a marathon, but starting one can be a sprint
Sprint

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Jan 16, 2020

My Books of 2019

In what has become a ritual, I open this article by once again lamenting about how I read far fewer books than I would have loved to. …

Books

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My Books of 2019
My Books of 2019
Books

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Dec 31, 2018

My Books of 2018

So it is that time of the year where I reflect and write on the books I read in the outgoing year, and look ahead to my reading expectations for the incoming year. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I fell short of my target, once again…

Books

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My Books of 2018
My Books of 2018
Books

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Dec 28, 2018

Kano and Alcohol: A Case Study of Nigeria’s Faulty Federalism

A few days ago, the Kano State Hisbah Board whose mandate is to uphold the morality of the state or a religious police destroyed 30 trailer loads of beer worth an estimated N150 million under the Kano State Penal Code Amendment Law of 2004, No 4, Section 401 which banned…

Nigeria

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Kano and Alcohol: A Case Study of Nigeria’s Faulty Federalism
Kano and Alcohol: A Case Study of Nigeria’s Faulty Federalism
Nigeria

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Mark Amaza

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