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Russia, Ukraine and the United States are all suffering the effects of too high levels of collective stress. US President Donald Trump recently met with Ukrainian President Petro ...

From the slavery that lasted a little more than four centuries, to the colonization and independence tailored to sculptor African countries, Africa has supposedly passed from a “primitive ...

I am going to be completely honest: I am a huge romantic. I love love…and as such, I certainly adore the idea of a specific day being set ...

If you frequent the conferences and launches held by technology companies, you would surely have come across statements similar to the following: “Up to forty percent of today’s ...

Over the last year, all eyes have been on Africa’s technology sector. And for a very good reason: infrastructure growth is booming. Between 2010 and 2016, seven new ...

I was privileged to attend the 12th edition of the African Travel & Tourism Conference (Akwaaba): a gathering of travel and tourism experts in Africa – both from ...

Good leaders know what they want to achieve and have a clear direction of travel. They pay a lot of attention to how they are with others, how ...

‘Disruption’ is a word one hears in the business context all the time these days. Being told that your business is in danger from unseen and unpredictable forces ...

As the U.S. presidential candidates lay out competing visions for the country, I have been thinking about a topic they have not yet discussed in detail: what political ...

The current state of the Nigerian economy demands drastic, urgent and unconventional actions in the power sector. As a nation, all our efforts should be focused on getting ...

The International Monetary Funds (IMF) predicted in 2015 that Nigeria’s economy will slide into a recession in 2016 by 1.8 per cent. The forecast indicated that our economy ...

Leaders are dealers in hope. They are not hope-dealers because they are more optimistic than the rest of the team but because they are less afraid – not ...

Nigeria is blessed with rich natural resources. These resources are, no doubt, germane to the economic growth and development of the country. They are ingredients of an untapped ...

Financially, it seems that the Brexit has created the possibility of some form of economic changes in Africa.  The African Union (AU) leaders have met to analyse the ...

Developing countries like South Africa need FDI (Foreign direct investment). They are investments in a business by an investor from another country for which the foreign investor has ...

Whatever one’s view of law enforcement and military personnel, certainly we can agree that these are highly stressful times for these professions. Therefore it is important to know ...

Earlier in 2015, I was invited to make a presentation at a brainstorming session on development practice in Nigeria. Our aim was to fashion out the possible engagement ...

Change is hard – and difficult to execute. Cost initiatives are often poorly designed and badly implemented. Many business leaders don’t recognise the underlying challenge and are over ...

As Africa’s most populous country and with an average five year real growth rate of 5% between 2011 and 2015, Nigeria is ranked as one of the fastest ...

  Discipline… it is all in the detail. Economists have long found Nigeria to be something of a conundrum. The macro picture has always appeared compelling – large ...