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One of the narratives that has fuelled continuing protests at South Africa’s universities is that students have been promised the right to free higher education.

Threads of this narrative go back to the Freedom Charter, the statement of …

Africa is likely to slide down the list of foreign policy priorities of a Donald Trump administration. This is because America’s foreign policy is determined by both domestic and foreign issues.

When it comes to domestic factors Trump is not …

Like many, I didn’t think it could be true. President Donald J Trump just seemed so implausible given the many profoundly concerning revelations about the Republican Party nominee’s personal views on women, the state, migration and migrants, Muslims, and even …

Kenya rose twenty-one places in the 2017 the World Bank’s Doing Business Report, in the same week a new five billion shillings scandal was smouldering in the Ministry of Health.  This week the grand corruption at the NYS, is unravelling …

It was meant to have been a time for celebration. When on October 5th the Ethiopian government unveiled the country’s new $3.4 billion railway line connecting the capital, Addis Ababa, to Djibouti, on the Red Sea, it was intended to …

“The path to success is to take massive determined actions” – Tony Robbins

The perception Nigerian have of summits and conferences is that of networking, all talks, some delicacies and it ends there. It is not that the ‘talks’ …

At no point in recent history has Nigeria’s government been so serious with development programmes than it has been under the Buhari administration. However, the ambition of the current administration to industrialise the country seems threatened, according to reports about …

Once upon a time there was a country the majority of whose people were oppressed and systematically discriminated against by a minority regime. The violation of human rights was a structural feature of its system, euphemistically called “separate development”.

The …

In 2015, I tested a hypothesis on youth entrepreneurship which I had held onto for quite a while. My question was whether we can foster and enable entrepreneurial ideas in young Nigerians than what currently ails. I decided to test …

A recent World Bank Ease of Doing Business Index showcased how frustrating it is to own and operate a small and medium enterprise business in Nigeria in the 2015 Doing Business Index. The relative link between SME’s, economic growth and …