By Frank Ofili Sometimes, the greatest victory is surviving the people who came to destroy you. There is a peculiar irony in international politics: those who set out to determine the destiny of other...
By Frank Ofili Some victories are celebrated. Others are remembered. And then there are those that fundamentally alter the narrative of a nation’s sporting history. Nigeria’s Flamingos have just delivered one such moment. Like...
By Frank Ofili There is something more humiliating than losing a political battle: surrendering a battle you once appeared determined to win, then inviting the very people who cheered you on to celebrate your...
By Frank Ofili If anyone has noticed, I have, for some time now, reduced my political commentary on Nigeria. What I see in the national political landscape hardly provides much encouragement. There is simply...
By Frank Ofili Over the years, in the course of my career in Human Resources Management, I have had several opportunities to onboard fresh graduates and young people coming straight out of school into...
By Frank Ofili Every society has its own vocabulary of ridicule. Sometimes, a place name becomes more than a geographical reference. It enters popular speech as a coded insult, a euphemism for madness, a...
By Frank Ofili John Ruskin, the celebrated nineteenth-century English thinker, once offered a profound insight into the meaning of wealth and human progress. His philosophy, in essence, was that the true test of a...
The Crisis of Professional Courage in the Nigerian Workplace By Frank Ofili A human resources manager is, no doubt, obliged to take instructions from top Management. But there is a fundamental difference between taking...
By Frank Ofili In the run-up to the 2023 presidential election, I described Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential candidate at the time, as a shop economist. It was not a compliment. My argument...
By Frank Ofili Lean HR is an approach to human resource management that seeks to maximise value, eliminate waste, simplify work processes and improve the efficiency of HR service delivery without compromising quality, fairness...
By Frank Ofili President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has an interesting way of listening to his party. He listens, perhaps, not necessarily to be persuaded, but to know what his party thinks before proceeding to...
By Frank Ofili There is something rather amusing, if not downright embarrassing, about the way some Nigerian football fans have turned Lionel Messi into the patron saint of humility while portraying Cristiano Ronaldo as...
By Frank Ofili The unfinished business of democracy, leadership and nation-building. Let me state from the onset that the views expressed in this article are entirely mine and do not necessarily represent those of...
By Frank Ofili Every HR professional worth their onions knows that there are several factors that could influence a hiring decision. Chief among them are competence, experience, educational qualifications, technical skills, track record, culture...
By Frank Ofili A country is not prosperous because its petrol is cheaper than another country’s petrol. Its people are prosperous when their incomes, purchasing power, public services, institutions and quality of life enable...
