Cote d’Ivoire: Hortense Kone’s Headache during 2020 COVID-19 Lockdown

When COVID-19 lockdown restrictions hit Côte d’Ivoire last year, the main headache of Hortense Koné, manager of a small restaurant in Abobo Belleville, north of the country’s economic capital Abidjan, was how to pay her water and electricity bills. But a decision by the Ivorian government to cover water and electricity bills for households in […]

2020; Its Lessons and Controversies

It is reasonable to argue that ‘history is an unending dialogue between the present and the past through a continuous process of interaction between the historian and his facts’. Likewise, the year 2020, a year ‘garnished’ with controversies and other forms of ups and downs, may have come and gone. Yet, the lessons/controversies it left […]

December Rain – There shall be Showers

Krishna Priya Pallavi, an Indian editor maintained that, albeit strange, the rain had been a respite from the heat. No doubt, dwellers of the tropical regions like Asia and Africa are forced to quickly align with it as a respite. Of course, the weather has been too hot, and as a Nigerian who has usually […]

On your Mark, Set Goals in  2020

In the nineteenth century, economist Vilfredo Pareto discovered that eighty percent of the land in Italy then was owned by twenty percent of the population.  Mr. Pareto identifies a few other examples that could apply to this pattern. He then propounded what has become known as the Pareto principle or the 80/20 rule: given a large number […]

2020; A time to learn and deliver the economy  

It’s been argued for a very long time that some knowledge of history is useful to the scientist, the economist or the student of literature or philosophy on the grounds that no science or art is static. This argument by strategic thinkers has its background on the premise that historical science begins with a reaction […]

Six Ways You Can Keep Your Resolutions This 2020

It is a new year and as usual, a lot of us have made our resolutions for the year. For me, that was the first thing I did on the 1st day of the year. I spent some alone time together and made a list of what I hoped to achieve before the year ends. […]

Six Top Ways To Be More Productive This 2020

Being productive is usually easier said than done. And this is a problem I am constantly dealing with. I mean, there are days I wake up and tell myself that I am going to achieve a lot but end up talking and making excuses as to why I didn’t do the things I had planned […]

2020: APC’ll Survive Oshiomhole-Obaseki War, But It’s Beginning Of The End

In an article entitled “2019: How Atiku will lose – and other matters,” published this time last year, I made six predictions: 1) Atiku will lose 2) despite Access Bank having Diamond Bank for supper, there won’t be a rat race for size among banks and liquidity will get tighter 3) Super Eagles will reach […]

As we welcome a ‘new decade’

In this reflection I am using the phrase welcoming a ‘new decade’ very cautiously as I am mindful of the controversy over whether January 1 2020 should be regarded as the beginning of a new decade or the end of the last decade.  For those who argue that 2020 is the last year of the […]

DSS will abduct more Nigerians for being ‘’irritants’’ – my 2020 prophecies

Permit me to indulge in this end-of-the-year humbug. I have read some prophecies for the year 2020 by men who arrogate to themselves the title ‘’man of God’’.  Well, since I am not born of Satan, I believe I am a craft of that supreme intelligent being.  But let me say upfront, the ‘’spirit’’ which […]