When the late mountaineer and philanthropist, Edmund Percival Hillary remarked that "People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things," he may never have had Nigeria in mind…
Read MoreCo-founder of RED, Adebola Williams was one of the speakers at the just concluded Obama Foundation Summit held on October 31 to November 1, 2017, at Illinois, Chicago, the United…
Read MoreYMonitor now features on the Office of the Citizen Radio program on Nigeria Info Fm alongside other partners such as BudgIT and EiE. OOTC radio show for Lagos comes up…
Read Moreby Kingsley Moghalu Can our politicians save Nigeria? Let’s get real. The answer is “No”. They can’t. Certainly not the vast majority of the dominant political leadership class we…
Read Moreby Soyombo Ayomikun 1.That we screamed Sai Baba Doesn't mean we Won't ask 'Where Baba?' That we ask Where Baba Doesn't mean we Don't wish him Well! 2.What wisdom…
Read Moreby Chude Jideonwo I would be dishonest if I said I didn’t expect that my last piece to have some effect, but I certainly didn’t anticipate the intensity of the…
Read Moreby Chude Jideonwo Two years ago to this day, you brought me to tears. You were in our nation’s capital, being inaugurated as the first Nigerian in our nation’s history…
Read Moreby Chude Jideonwo During elections in Nigeria, and even across the world, many people focus on the politicians themselves - whether they are good or bad or whether they are…
Read Moreby Chude Jideonwo From the middle of last year to early this year, a raft of my peers began to express disappointment with President Muhammadu Buhari, who they were actively…
Read Moreby Chude Jideonwo Because we run a nation building company that is the continent’s leading expert on elections, we routinely sit in on meetings with politicians who want to be…
Read Moreby Chude JIdeonwo “I was really hopeful about the February 2face protests,” a friend of mine told me over lunch just recently. “And terribly disappointed when he chickened out. It…
Read Moreby Chude Jideonwo Let’s start from the beginning – I am completely in support of the #NotTooYoungToRun campaign. The campaign is based on a bill before the National Assembly that…
Read Moreby Chude Jideonwo Why did supposedly serious-minded Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Paul Ryan support the disturbing candidacy of Donald Trump, a man who stands against the…
Read Moreby Chude Jideonwo The confusion over the nomination of Ibrahim Magu as chair of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is one of the most remarkable pieces of political theatre…
Read Moreby Chude Jideonwo I have heard this bit of nonsense constantly – seen it sometimes on social media, in comment boxes or random commentary: that because I actively, enthusiastically and…
Read Moreby Chude Jideonwo Let me tell you about my driver of seven years. The first sign of trouble when he was recommended was the fact that he didn’t have a…
Read Moreby Chude Jideonwo I got a lot of panicked responses after my last piece; the panic focused on one small nugget of information buried within it: the fact that, as…
Read Moreby Chude Jideonwo Nigerians talk a good game about third party candidacies, especially Nigerians on social media. They speak often about this utopia where Nigerians have had more than…
Read Moreby Chude Jideonwo In the world these days, it is impossible to have a nuanced discussion about too many things. The lure of 140 characters disincentives the complexity that ideas…
Read Moreby Chude Jideonwo You could feel the sense of panic when some of the enablers and voters (of which I am one, having personally and professionally supported him) of President…
Read Moreby Chude Jideonwo Then there is the long-term advantage – and this is the more important one for the future of our nation: what roles can business thinking and the…
Read Moreby Chude Jideonwo A few days ago, I received this message in my email from a highly respected colleague with the Punch, which inspired this article: “Thank you for staying…
Read Moreby Chude Jideonwo There is something curious that you might have noticed. Something as strange as it is weird. And it should worry you. We don’t appear to know…
Read Moreby Chude Jideonwo Last month, the Oyo governor, Abiola Ajimobi shocked the nation. Footage of the governor speaking to students of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) who had…
Read Moreby Chude Jideonwo *This continues Monday’s piece on the 15 disciplines behind the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) campaign. The discipline of leadership On 18 January 2016, the journalist Kadaria…
Read Moreby Chude Jideonwo You know the tragedy already. The world does. And it’s one we have yet to recover from: 276 Chibok girls kidnapped from their schools under the watch…
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