Our land borders and insecurity imports
MARTIN Ike-Muonso
January 4, 2021
Cross-border in-migration usually enables importations of some sort; the good, the bad and the ugly. They range from desirable new cultures to humans and illegally smuggled-in weapons of mass destruction. Thus, depending on the level of patriotism and attention to detail of government agencies responsible for deterring the smuggling and importation of unwanted items, the […]
Crop Farmers and Pastoralists confrontations
MARTIN Ike-MuonsoJanuary 1, 2021
Fear and insecurity are at the roots of most problems and most failures. Over the past decade, criminal herdsmen actively evangelize fear and insecurity across the country. Their warmly clutched favourite weapons of war, the AK-47 rifles, swords, and daggers, testify to their compelling reputation for violence. The stories of women they mercilessly raped reverberate […]
Diagnalytics and ideation energizers in business transformation
MARTIN Ike-MuonsoDecember 28, 2020
Handholding is unarguably the most practical and result-oriented transformative process that delivers high performance for businesses and by extension governments. It is an assured process for resurrecting, even morbid entrepreneurial operations. However, because its implementation requires rigour and discipline, it is rarely deployed or used as it should be. The handholding process comprises […]
Africa and the decade of COVID-19
Olukayode OyeleyeDecember 28, 2020
THERE IS NO ARGUMENT about the fact that the decade beginning from 2020 is a decade of Coronavirus. The year 2020 alone has seen a widespread impact of the infection, now regarded as a pandemic. It was a year of panic, experimentation, competition for solutions, fear-mongering and politicisation of a misfortune of mankind. The coming […]
Financing African businesses and projects
MARTIN Ike-MuonsoDecember 21, 2020
African entrepreneurs are not bereft of profit yielding ideas. The massive number of successful African entrepreneurs both within the continent and in diaspora attest to this. There are as many great entrepreneurs, innovators and inventors in Africa as there possibly are in other parts of the world. However, the performance and output differences between […]
Africa’s economy and post-COVID-19 global engagement (2)
Olukayode OyeleyeDecember 21, 2020
ONE MAJOR RECURRING COMPONENT in the risk analysis on Africa is leadership. Despite its centrality, it remains an unsolved problem for a number of reasons. Among them are the confounding variables that sometimes defy logic and common sense. Problems arising at lower levels of human activities are subjected to extensive analysis and a wide array […]
Government’s role in Africa’s poverty
MARTIN Ike-MuonsoDecember 14, 2020
About 60% of the poverty level in any country is ascribable to its government. The combination of the government’s unfulfilled obligations and consciously created anomalies and economic distortions directly impoverish many. There are at least six ways in which the government is guilty. The first is wrong designs of fiscal programs and governments misapplications of […]
Africa’s economy and post-COVID-19 global engagement
Olukayode OyeleyeDecember 14, 2020
AFRICA CONTINUES TO SHOW PROMISES of becoming an attractive and distinctive continent for the world in years ahead. In addition to its continued relevance as a major source of many commodities serving as drivers of global industrial growth, technological advancement, food security and as primary source of many luxury products, Africa is becoming a continent […]
Africa: From 2020 quandary to 2021 anticipation (3)
Olukayode OyeleyeDecember 7, 2020
ANXIETIES, FEARS AND uncertainties prevalent at the peak of COVID-19 restrictions all over the world are gradually subsiding as many countries are getting used to the disease, the measures outlined for controlling its spread and as they begin to understand some critical issues about the pandemic. These, however, are not truly indicative of decline of […]
Threats to prosperity creation in Africa
MARTIN Ike-MuonsoDecember 7, 2020
Africa is developing fast, and it is up to anyone to appreciate it. The pace may be slow; much slower than most people would expect. But that is because of the continent’s past. The growth, however, has not obliterated the reality of our underdevelopment. First, government failure is still well pronounced across the continent. Other […]