Tag: Lanre Olagunju

@Lanre_Olagunju: How we can revive our manufacturing so it can make us prosperous (Y! Business)

by Lanre Olagunju Africa’s share of world manufacturing output and contribution to global trade declined from 0.9% to 0.8% between 1980 and 2001. As at 2012, it was just about 1%.…

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@Lanre_Olagunju: How a market economy will make Africa better (Y! Business)

by Lanre Olagunju A market economy refers to a system in which economic decisions especially the pricing of goods and services are fully determined by the aggregate interactions of a…

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@Lanre_Olagunju: How to tackle the unemployment challenge in Africa

by Lanre Olagunju Of all the numerous challenges posing a threat to Africa’s prosperity and well-being, unemployment occupies the lion share. Whether this challenge is causing African leaders sleepless night…

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Lanre Olagunju: What is Africa’s excuse for maternal and newborn mortality?

by Lanre Olagunju A report from a recent study has it that it will take over a century before a baby born in Africa has the same chance of survival…

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Lanre Olagunju: #AfricanChildDay – Raising the bar for the well-being of children in Africa

by Lanre Olagunju The most important factors to be considered in raising the bar for the African Child is ensuring that all pre-requisites to keep them in good health are…

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Opinion: Dear Reno Omokri, Fashola is too big for you

by Lanre Oguntoyinbo I think Governor Babatunde Fashola is too big for you Mr. Reno, even your principal’s intellectual might can’t stand this man, combination of all of you at…

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Report: How Rib Cracker App, AkposJokes, others hit one million downloads – and counting

by Lanre Olagunju Tunde Olabenjo, CTO of Stack Arena juggled his memory and narrated thus, “At first we decided that we were just going to build a native app that…

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Lanre Olagunju: Let’s forget about aid and focus on building entepreneurs

by Lanre Olagunju                                   Entrepreneurs are world changers, basically because their input to a large extent goes far beyond creating jobs and paying wages. At the point of solving problems,…

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Opinion: How education can strengthen our democracy

by Lanre Olagunju True democracy stands for freedom from oppression and subjection. But freedom comes with a price; even the Holy Bible agrees that the price for freedom is knowledge. …

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Opinion: This is why women matter to us

by Lanre Olagunju The issue is not about erasing the natural differences between men and women, the point is to acknowledge those differences and then harness them as a tool…

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Lanre Olagunju: With patience comes good luck

by Lanre Olagunju Patience is power and not the absence of action. To think otherwise is foolhardy. Patience is a virile virtue; it does not mean lying down under affliction,…

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Opinion: There’s no law against granting of pardon to criminals, but…

by Lanre Olagunju Yes, we can’t stop President Jonathan from having a thief as a mentor and former boss, but he must be reminded that this country doesn’t belong to…

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Lanre Olagunju: Love is just so overrated

by Lanre Olagunju It is not enough that a man be born, he must learn to live. It’s not enough that a man should live; he must learn to love…

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Opinion: Five leadership lessons from Martin Luther King, Jr.

by Lanre Olagunju The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference Last Monday, the world again celebrated the Martin…

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