The role of country governments in championing apprenticeship and handholding models
MARTIN Ike-Muonso
July 20, 2020
A matter of significant concern is the capacity of various African country governments to mainstream the apprenticeship and handholding models for prosperity creation effectively. The Igbo apprenticeship system has a compelling reputation for the compounded formation of employment and output at large-scale. Likewise, the handholding model of entrepreneurial growth orchestrates the sustained high profitable performance […]
Time to activate Africa’s idle magnetic force (3)
Olukayode OyeleyeJuly 20, 2020
Editor’s Note: Following the conclusion of the two-part article of urgency on the Nile Dam brouhaha, last week, Dr. Oyeleye this week returns to his discourse on activating the idle force in Africa. Enjoy the piece. DIVINERS WHO MADE FORECASTS that the future of the world would depend on Africa, particularly on the area of […]
Rancorous drumbeats over Nile Dam (2)
Olukayode OyeleyeJuly 13, 2020
SEARCH FOR THE ELUSIVE PEACE between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan continued penultimate weekend. The meeting, convened on Friday that week at the instance of the African Union (AU) as the current AU chair, was meant to achieve a semblance of rapprochement; a sort of compromise between Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia on the protracted disagreements over […]
Powering entrepreneurial prosperity: The handholding model
MARTIN Ike-MuonsoJuly 13, 2020
The level of prosperity attained by any country is directly proportional to the size of entrepreneurial minds it houses. The extent to which entrepreneurial thinking feeds into the overall decision-making processes at the individual, corporate and government levels may be a factor differentiating countries, continents and regions in respect of the well-being they enjoy. An […]
Awakening government entrepreneurship
MARTIN Ike-MuonsoJuly 6, 2020
The seeming absence of entrepreneurial consciousness among the governments of African countries considerably hinders their country’s prosperity. In Nigeria, for instance, only about four subnational governments are economically independent. The rest of the subnational governments depend on centrally distributed revenue allocations for survival. This inconvenient reality is avoidable in these governments internalizing the fact that […]
Rancorous drumbeats over Nile Dam (1)
Olukayode OyeleyeJuly 6, 2020
Editor’s Note: Dr. Oyeleye is taking an emergency break from his running series, Time to activate Africa’s idle magnetic force, to address this urgent matter of the Nile Dam because of the immediacy of issues involved. He will return to conclude the series after this one. GLOBAL FORECASTERS MUST BE COMMENDED for their foresight […]
On interstate travel ban and Motor Insurance
Francis EwheridoJune 29, 2020
An insurance professional colleague, Anayo Nwosu, raised a very important issue on our professional insurance platform recently. He asked what will happen if the vehicles currently travelling interstate, in spite of the interstate ban on movement by the government, were to be involved in an accident? I thought I should escalate it so that the […]
Market failure in Africa
MARTIN Ike-MuonsoJune 29, 2020
Africa is a continent bubbling with untapped potentials. The abundance of these untapped resources – human, natural economic – also points to the profundity of the underlying inefficiency in resource allocation. From the traditional laws on land which perpetuates subsistence farming and frustrates commercial agriculture, to the absence of motorable roads that will enable the […]
Time to activate Africa’s idle magnetic force (2)
Olukayode OyeleyeJune 29, 2020
AFRICAN SOIL HAS BEEN a testing ground for an assortment of policy ideas. From Marxist-Communist, to Capitalist, neoliberal or hybrids of any of the combinations, the continent has seen models and types of governments – some good, some bad – since the Kwame Nkrumah’s era, Nnamdi Azikiwe’s idealism, Jomo Kenyatta’s fantasies and the daydreams of […]
Time to activate Africa’s idle magnetic force (1)
Olukayode OyeleyeJune 22, 2020
The world inches towards 8 billion inhabitants in the next couple of years. The most recent United Nations’ current world population estimate of 7.8 billion people as of June 2020 lends credence to the imminence of that 8 billion mark. Of that current 7.8 billion, Africa alone – as a continent – takes 1.34 billion, […]