Wanted: A National Diagnosis
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...
Monthly Archive: October 2026
John Ruskin and The Nigerian Paradox
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...
When HR Becomes Its Own Worst Enemy
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...
When Bad Governance Meets a Badly Organised Opposition
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...
Lean HR: The Place of Process, Policy and Procedure — A Contradiction or an Alignment?
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...
President Tinubu’s Political Engineering: When Party Loyalty Becomes a Casualty of Presidential Ambition
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...
MESSI IS NO SAINT: STOP PUTTING HIM ON A MORAL PEDESTAL ABOVE RONALDO
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...
NIGERIA AT 66: RENEWED HOPE IN HOPELESSNESS
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...
