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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 …
Continue readingThe IMANI Center for Policy and Education, a Ghana-based Think-Tank, organizes the Student and Young Professional African Liberty Academy (SYPALA), an annual symposium for students and young individuals in Africa. The symposium is part of the Center’s vision of ‘training …
Continue readingThe African region has been a direct beneficiary of the Millennium Development Goals which has been the most successful global anti-poverty push in history (MDG Report, 2013). Significant and substantial progress has been made in meeting many of the targets; …
Continue readingIn a few days, the members of the Nigeria judiciary will be coming back from their long vacation to resume their duties. The courts will be opened as activities will be expected to return in full swing. Nevertheless, one is …
Continue readingThe relevance of public infrastructure has been a debatable issue in Nigeria since independence, owing to the growing demand on governments to provide rapid social development and economic growth. As a result, both past and present governments have expended huge …
Continue readingOften you hear it said, “we have lost our values as Africans.” Africans say it and even non-Africans say the same thing. Which suggests that there must be some recognizable virtues or traits that identify an African and which informs …
Continue readingDevelopment for most people is what separates a modern society from a primitive one. What then is development? There are myriads of definitive options that exist for our elucidation, they include “the process in which someone or something grows or …
Continue readingThere are fences in virtually every strata of the Nigerian economy. Fences in this context, suggest physical or manmade barriers that impede the movement of goods and services from one point to another. It also portrays a situation where government …
Continue readingThe battle for the soul of Nigeria is a battle between the status quo and reforms. The status quo has been winning the battle for over half a century, the reformists have a battle in their hands and the odds …
Continue readingA few months ago I had the privilege of attending an open lecture by the famous pro-liberal democracy theorist Professor Francis Fukuyama. Fukuyama, burst into the global limelight with the publishing of his book, “The End of History and …
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