Exceptional performance is the bridge between where you are today and where you deserve to be tomorrow. Opportunity does not always arrive as a promotion. Sometimes it arrives disguised as extra responsibility. When the Operations Manager of a fast-growing manufacturing…

World Absolute Towers in Mississauga, affectionately nicknamed the “Marilyn Monroe” towers. Photo credit: Ehi Braimah For Nigerians, Mississauga presents more than an enjoyable travel destination. It offers practical lessons in ethical leadership, good governance, multicultural coexistence, urban planning, public infrastructure,…

How did suspicious transactions involving 909 accounts across numerous financial institutions continue for so long without triggering stronger compliance mechanisms? Why were unusual transaction patterns apparently not detected much earlier? Could more robust anti-money laundering controls, transaction monitoring systems, and…

There is a fine line between discipline and domination. Institutions that mistake one for the other eventually weaken the very excellence they exist to cultivate. That is the unsettling question raised by Yushau Shuaib’s memoir of his tumultuous experience at…

Spain lifting the 2026 World Cup (PHOTO CREDIT: FIFA World Cup on X) The straight-forward, honest and correct answer to the question raised above is: Yes. Spain won at the end of the day on Sunday, 19 July, 1-0 against Argentina,…

I make no apology for the loyalty I had for this man, in his life and in his passing. It has become fashionable in Nigerian public discourse to treat loyalty as naivety, and betrayal as sophistication. I reject that inversion.…

‘Timi Alaibe Wake him up at midnight or just before cock-crow, and demand of him a blueprint on solutions to the challenges confronting the Niger Delta, he will do so with smashing coherence and deep insight. His understanding of the…

On a quiet Sunday morning, as I was going for a walk, a stranger sidled up to me and said his “Good morning, sir”. “I see you on walks around the estate, with a camera. Are you into architecture?”, he…

From one policy flip-flop to another, the Federal Government of Nigeria has scrapped the 6-3-3-4 system of education, which it introduced with fanfare over four decades ago. In its place is now a linear 12-year schooling from primary to the…

…if we carefully rummage through the lurid, the grotesque, the salacious stories of their Sex-cellencies – even at state levels with the governors – we may find anchors to how power politics in Nigeria and Africa can be explained through…

Before teaching on the mystery of rest, I must begin with my own story, because revelation becomes more powerful when it is backed by experience. My journey into rest did not begin in comfort; it began in crisis. It began…

Every decision carries consequences. Once you make a decision, you become accountable to the outcome of that decision, whether good or bad. So if you want a different life, begin by making different decisions… Choose wisely. Choose intentionally. Choose with…

New NBA President, Mrs Badejo-Okusanya. Howsoever it ends, the association must confront with bold transparency the duty to continuously improve the administration of its leadership processes. It must also understand that failure to do so will endanger its commitment to…

I like to think that I’m a citizen of the world. Truthfully, I have not been raised to have racial or ethnic boundaries, even as I’ve been socialised to appreciate the beauty of my culture and the refreshing diversity observable…

I decided to confront the Director-General with the news that my God would remove him from office through a television announcement. In 1986, I was appointed Special Adviser to Nigeria’s Minister of External Affairs, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi. When I was offered…