Happy New Year! I know it’s the end of January and the title of this piece is everything but happy. However, the greeting too has become perfunctory, much like routine phrases such as “Good morning” or “How are you?”—often expressed without genuine interest. However, that’s not the story. My motivation for writing this piece stems […]
The progress recorded by NIMC for NIN (National Identity Number) enrolment in the past two years makes one wonder what it could mean for financial inclusion targets. Imagine a situation where an individual is automatically signed up for a mobile wallet or bank account at the point of NIN enrolment; that would easily translate to […]
Last month, just around the time Nigeria officially slipped into a recession, my dear friend Akanimoh, thought it would be a good idea to talk about The Role of Entrepreneurship in Diversifying Nigeria’s Economy – just as well that the conversation theme for the month was Entrepreuenship. It was an absolute delight to have two […]
November is the month of the Global Entrepreneurship Week and in light of that, Entrepreneurship is the broad discussion theme on the Social Conscience talk-show for the month. With this,the conversationskicked off with the topic, ‘Entrepreneurship or Employability – Addressing Nigeria’s Youth Unemployment’. It was such a delight to have Mrs. Detoun Ogwo, an External […]
Democracy reportedly has its early origins from Greece and history tells us that the Greeks developed a ‘’three-way Democratic Code’’ which was used to assess the behavior and eligibility of electors within Athens & Sparta. The groups of people identified, and which would be found in any society area as follows: There are reportedly studies […]
Police brutality is not a phenomenon that’s peculiar to Nigeria and the protests in the United States to end police brutality in the months preceding the EndSARS protests were testament to that. However, in the thick of the peaceful protests by young Nigerians to end the brutality allegedly meted out by an infamous division of […]
“You carry the weight of a generation on your shoulders, so make it count – what you want to do is not to gain self-accolades, but to be an example for other young people.” Akintunde Oyebode. The quote above is a poignant message that resonated during my interview with Akintunde Oyebode (Akin), the current Commissioner […]
The pun in the title of this article is clearly intended and rather apt too, I borrowed it from my friend Tina when she was trying to describe a situation where the symptoms of an issue were being addressed as opposed to the underlying issue itself. For as far back as I remember being a […]
The National Bureau of Statistic (NBS) recently published the unemployment rate for 2020 and below are some of the insights gleaned from reports: In conversation with my friends, Temi and Akanimoh (Akay) – we decided to discuss the possible drivers of youth unemployment in our dear country. Akay and I were on the same side […]
There I was, on a wintery day, somewhere in West London, sat in front of this slightly built, caucasian gentleman with a bald head, his glasses sitting right on the bridge of his nose and almost glued to his face. Steve was my Sociology teacher at the independent A’Levels college I was studying at. The […]