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Report Highlights: Nigeria continues to depend almost exclusively on sugar imports despite the completion of the privatization of all government-owned sugar estates. Rehabilitation and expansion of these estates are on going, albeit at a very slow pace and at present, only Savannah Sugar Company (Da [Read more]

Report Highlights: Although Nigeria dropped from the number one export destination in the world for U.S. wheat in MY2010/11 to third position this year, it remains the most consistent and loyal customer. Sales as of April1 are a record 3.5 million tons, up from 3.3 million tons last year. Consumptio [Read more]

This piece documents the facts of the supply-side recovery in Nigeria in the last few years and identifies the triggers. It then discusses the challenges the new turn of events pose to policy makers, who are only just responding to the previous downturn. Data that have become available since reforms [Read more]

The availability of reliable Electric Power to the homes and businesses of our citizens has been one item in our national life that we have approached with so much hope and yet experienced so much frustration over the past decades. Various regimes, in the distant past, paid little attention to the s [Read more]

Protocol: 1. I am very delighted to be invited to present a key-note address at this important forum. I wish to commend the organizers, the Canadian High Commission, the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria and the Royal Bank of Canada for gathering top policy makers and operators in the ban [Read more]

After years of working with entrepreneurs, investors, corporations, and institutions, I realized that most people have one or more habits that prevent them from being wealthy. For each habit I have created and tested a counter-habit, hoping that this can help individuals live happier. This is a mani [Read more]

“Everyone lives by selling something.” 1. “Strategy” overrated, simply “doin’ stuff” underrated. See Kelleher and Bossidy: “We have a ‘strategic plan,’ it’s called doing things.”—Herb Kelleher. “Execution is a sys [Read more]

In 1988, a British mountain climber named Joe Simpson wrote a book called Touching the Void, a harrowing account of near death in the Peruvian Andes. It got good reviews but, only a modest success it was soon forgotten. Then, a decade later, a strange thing happened. Jon Krakauer wrote Into Thin Air [Read more]

There has never been a better time to start a business with no money. And this manifesto will show you how. This manifesto is based on The Bootstrapper’s Bible, a book I wrote a few years ago. What I’ve done is divided it into short sections, so you can find the little kernel of insight [Read more]

What are the qualities and characteristics that help create successful leaders? Consider this four-point plan. With business leaders’ public—and private—behavior coming under increasing scrutiny, it’s becoming nearly impossible to avoid getting caught in a lie. Few things [Read more]