Jan 8, 2022My Books of 2021While 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…Reading6 min readReading6 min read
Aug 22, 2021Nigeria’s Restructuring Has Already BeganThe 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…Restructuring4 min readRestructuring4 min read
Aug 14, 2021Between One Nigeria and Many BiafrasFor 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…Biafra4 min readBiafra4 min read
Aug 6, 2021Nigeria & Importing Food: The Myth of Self-SufficiencyThis 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…Nigeria4 min readNigeria4 min read
Apr 29, 2021Making NYSC Voluntary Will Increase Its Value and PrestigeIn 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…Nysc5 min readNysc5 min read
Dec 31, 2020My Books of 2020The 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…Reading9 min readReading9 min read
Published inMindcapital Blog·Jul 2, 2020Building a thriving company is a marathon, but starting one can be a sprintAs 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. …Sprint2 min readSprint2 min read
Jan 16, 2020My Books of 2019In 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. …Books7 min readBooks7 min read
Dec 31, 2018My Books of 2018So 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…Books7 min readBooks7 min read
Dec 28, 2018Kano and Alcohol: A Case Study of Nigeria’s Faulty FederalismA 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…Nigeria4 min readNigeria4 min read
