In October 2019, a businessperson started looking for an investor who could provide a $15 million loan to build an international school in Qatar. By November, the businessperson was on a plane to Kenya,...
When Alex accepted a job interview at Accenture, the global professional services giant that performs content moderation for WhatsApp, one of the first questions the recruiter asked him was whether he was comfortable looking at child...
The sociology of death and funerals is an important aspect of the African cosmogony. Parents pray that their children should outlive them in order to give them a befitting burial. They liken this to...
Seventy-four-year-old composer of the National Youth Service Corps anthem, Dr Oluwole Adetiran, burst into tears on Thursday during the visit of the Director-General of the NYSC, Brig. Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim, to his house in Ibafo, Obafemi-Owode Local...
America’s greatest success story in Africa has degenerated into its biggest failure, Colum Lynch writes I. Founding Fathers On July 9, 2011, South Sudan’s first day of independence, the country’s new president, Salva Kiir,...
The most recent World Bank outlook for emerging markets and developing economies is especially significant because of the cautionary messages it contains. Whereas rich countries appear set to return to or even exceed their...
Almost a week after the indefinite suspension of Twitter’s operations announced by the Nigerian government took effect on June 4, accounts for the “Government of Nigeria” and other government officials were created on Indian...
I am watching with the corner of one eye, political developments in my dear state of Delta. For all intents and purposes, PDP Delta State is cannibalizing itself and an internal implosion is imminent....
Coach Sampson Siasia. Remember him? The Holland 2005 and Beijing 2008 Olympics hero. In 2019 Siasia was banned for life by FIFA from participating in anything football. FIFA said, at that time, that he...
No form of honest labour should ever be despised. But it is sad to watch grown men and women running after traffic to sell handkerchiefs, soft drinks, sausage rolls etc. The sight, visible all...
