Nigerians Dream

ABOUT THE BOOK The subject of leadership has always been on the top burner in any sphere, from individuals to groups, to organisations, to brands, to businesses and nations. Everything has always and will continue to revolve around leadership. This has led to the springing up of materials on how to be a better leader, or how to simply lead in any given moment or platform. And true to this, there has been inexhaustible materials on this subject of leadership so that it has become an over-saturated topic, where everyone has an idea what leadership is or should be. Which is good when knowledge shakes hands with action. But! No one has actually asked the most vital question in all these discussions, and that is; Why Must You Lead? Why Should You Choose To Lead? Why Should You Be The Leader? Why Should You Lead? Why You? Why Not Another? All through the ages, the question of How, Where, Whom, What, When and Where has been repeatedly attended to when it comes to Le...

ONCE UPON A TIME, A KING In 2015 we were fed up with a king from the south,  Whose rise to power many equated as dues ex machina,  But his reign was sub-human.  So we rose up And told him to pass the staff We consulted the oracle again, And another was chosen from the North, We merried, we celebrated, Because we have heard of the new king exploit in 83 So we chanted Uhuru! Our joy knew no bounds when he told us that he belongs to all of us, And belongs to know one's selfish interest No king has said this to us before None had the audacity to say this in the midst of vampires that surrounds the throne, Now we have a king with balls We said! The king roared against the kingdom most dreaded ghost The ghost that cast darkness on the kingdom even in broad daylight The ghost that scared our kids from school The ghost that caused potholes on our roads, Potholes that sip blood The ghost that gave arms to our youths, To kill the goose that lay the golden eggs. Yes, the ghost th...

Your Excellency President Joyce Banda, Professor M.S. Swaminathan, the Borlaug family, John and Janet Ruan, the World Food Prize Laureates, Excellencies, distinguished ladies and gentlemen, and the future leaders in agriculture. I am delighted to be here with you all today. It is such a great honour for Ambassador Kenneth Quinn, President of the World Food Prize Foundation, to have invited me to be keynote speaker today. Thank you very much, Ambassador Quinn, my dear friend; Professor Swaminathan; the Board members and staff of the World Food Prize Foundation, for all the great work you do. And congratulations as you celebrate the 30 th  Anniversary of the World Food Prize. I applaud and congratulate the World Food Prize Winners of 2016, for their transformative work on developing bio-fortified crops. My most recent interaction with this team was two years ago, when Howarth Bouis and his team at Harvest Plus organised the Second Global Forum on Biofortification in Kig...

There is an ongoing discussion on the effectiveness of foreign aid in helping the economic development of Africa. One thing is obvious: the results are not exactly what Africa’s development partners have expected, and the reasons are not far-fetched. Dambisa Moyo, global economist, and author contends in her book  Dead Aid  that while foreign aid that addresses humanitarian needs caused by drought and conflict is helpful, most of the aid given to African countries is rather harmful. The OECD provides  comprehensive statistics  on the kinds and volume of aid received by the continent up until 2015. Moyo lists the problems enhanced by aid to include corruption, civil conflict, shrinking of the middle class, and the instilling of a culture of dependency. All of these combine to make Africa unattractive to global investors. It has become obvious that it is politics that drives the economies of nations. Acemoglu and Robinson assert in their seminal book ...

Now let’s get this straight, this is not another patriotic strategy, as most people think all my posts or article are about, although there is nothing wrong at all with being patriotic! But this is me spilling out from the bottom and the   “koko”   of my belly. Trust me as a man if you don’t marry a   Nigerian Woman , I don’t envy you at all   ooo … not even a bit   sef!   I really do pity you. Seriously it’s almost certain that you will struggle with some aspects of life as you journey. God help you   sha ... Reasons because a   NIGERIAN WOMAN IS A COMPLETE AWESOME PACKAGE   with no apology to anybody! I know the first thing that happens when people read an article like this is, they start to conclude stuff like …. “Hmmmm… I think he is trying to get at somebody, or perhaps he wants to win the heart of women or a particular woman by writing this article”,   but if you know me very well, you know I don’t really care about chat...

Wait ooó my people, I'm just thinking ooó, please it's just me wondering, perhaps you can say I'm not in touch with reality after I air my mind...  But I'm just thinking if in Nigeria we can adopt  ‘oyinbo’  (white) people's names, what stops us from bearing names from other regions or ethnic groups in  Nigeria  where we are not originally from. The funniest part is that some of us bearing those white people's names from cultures that are completely foreign to us, don't even know the meaning let alone the origin. Think about it, is that not a pity?! I mean what stops a  Yoruba  man from bearing an  Igbo  name, or an  Igbo  man bearing a  Hausa  name, and  Hausa  man bearing an  Edo  man’s name. What stops an Igbo man from bearing a  Hausa  man’s name? Why can’t a  Hausa  man bear  Chinedu ? Tell me, will an  Igbo  man die if he bears  Magaji , or...