Columnists
We parade the best set of young columnists in Nigeria
What You Need to Know About the Property Market (i)
By Mayowa Akinsola Simply put, the property market is a place where willing sellers and willing buyers exchange landed property whether developed ...Notes on Income Streams
INVESTMENT TALK WITH EMMA Emmanuel Ewumi Incomes are earnings accruing to an individual or an organisation, while a stream is a flow ...FOCUS ON COURSE: Estate Management & Valuation
Last time we focused on economics as a course of study, the history and prospects, with special reference to Nigeria. Our guest ...How to Build a Beneficial Network and a Formidable Clout: Sharing my Personal Experience
I once did a piece on the role of networking in job hunting and highlighted ways of building network. The article was ...FEMI TAIWO ON MONDAY: Enhancing Serendipity (ii)
Michael Oluwafemi Taiwo, Ph.D There are principles by which people live that make them turn out to be lucky or ...JARUS ON SUNDAY: Jarus @ 31 Series
My cerebral friend and Jarushub’s Monday columnist, Dr. Michael Taiwo, when he clocked 30 last month, did a series on his life ...Investing in our Careers
INVESTMENT TALK WITH EMMA Emmanuel Ewumi A career is the job or series of jobs a person has until retirement. Careers are ...FEMI TAIWO ON MONDAY: Enhancing Serendipity: First Principle of Increasing Your Luck in Life
Michael Oluwafemi Taiwo, Ph.D In the introduction to this series, I gave out some “homework” I called the first lesson in Luck ...JARUS ON SUNDAY: Tax Enforcement – Knowledge, not Aggression
Suraj Oyewale After decades of slumber and parasitic reliance on allocation from the centre, state governments in Nigeria are gradually waking up ...God will never forgive my teachers!
‘Sola Fagorusi God will never forgive my teachers who taught me that the word ‘artiste’ refers to a female artist. Today, I ...Femi Taiwo @ 30: Top 10 Places That Shaped My Life in 30 years
Michael Oluwafemi Taiwo, Ph.D Introduction to the Top Ten Places I remember the most There is nothing magical about the places I ...Investing in Education
INVESTMENT TALK WITH EMMA Emmanuel Ewunmi Last week we were told that investment is the use of savings to produce future income. ...Oil & Gas: Ghana – A Curse Foretold?
| As I read the headlines, my mind raced to an article I wrote last year on my return from a tax ...FEMI TAIWO @ 30: Lessons in Selflessness (iii)
By Suraj Oyewale Part 1: FEMI TAIWO @ 30: Lessons in Selflessness (i) Part 2: FEMI TAIWO @ 30: Lessons in Selflessness ...FEMI TAIWO @ 30: Lessons in Selflessness (ii)
By Suraj Oyewale Continued from: Part 1 GCE 1999 AS A TURNING POINT Again, Femi was instrumental to my newfound confidence and ...FEMI TAIWO @ 30: Lessons in Selflessness (i)
Suraj ‘Jarus’ Oyewale INTRODUCTION One writer, his name I can’t remember, identified five people that are critical to a man’s success. One ...How to Reduce Housing Deficit in Nigeria
INVESTMENT TALK WITH EMMA Emmanuel Ewunmi Abraham Maslow identified the following as the basic needs of human: food, clothing and shelter. Accommodation or ...FEMI TAIWO @ 30: Top 30 Forces That Shaped My Life in 30 Years (i)
Michael Oluwafemi Taiwo, Ph.D On Saturday, July 27, 2013, I will be 30 years. It is a good time for me to ...FAGRO FLAYS: How to Rape a Child
‘Sola Fagorusi I hear parents in urban communities now use the name Yerima to make pigheaded female children fall in line! Sani ...FEMI TAIWO ON MONDAY: Introduction to Enhancing Serendipity Series
Michael Oluwafemi Taiwo, Ph.D I argued over the course of three articles that those who succeed at anything and don’t mention luck ...On Wole Soyinka’s Mythical ‘Third Class’ Degree
Suraj Oyewale The Guardian newspaper of Monday, 15 July 2013 carried a story that should ordinarily not be news. Titled, ‘I didn’t ...FEMI TAIWO ON MONDAY: Our Struggle with Discussing Luck
Michael Oluwafemi Taiwo, Ph.D This is the third – and final – piece of a series. You can read the first piece ...So you want to become a lawyer in Nigeria? (ii)
Misbau ‘Mislaw’ Lateef After a course of study at the Nigeria Law School, the student who passes the final – Bar Part ...So, you want to become a lawyer in Nigeria? (i)
Misbau ‘Mislaw’ Lateef After a very brief lull in this Column, owing to my involuntary response to call of the weather; today, ...FEMI TAIWO ON MONDAY: The Many Faces of Luck
Michael Oluwafemi Taiwo, Ph.D I made the case in my last article that luck is a necessary (but admittedly not sufficient) component ...FAGRO FLAYS: Warm Embrace with the Ghost of June 12
‘Sola Fagorusi Time is a falcon. It flies. And it does so swiftly. The gun sounds had become the norm and my ...Yes, I am Lucky
Michael Oluwafemi Taiwo, PhD Many people deride the role luck has played in their success. They even deny having any! Some are ...Excuse Me, Mr. Self-Employment Advocate!
The last decade has witnessed a surge in all manner of motivational talk in Nigeria. Hundreds of seminars and thousands of articles ...The Constitutionality of GEJ’s Emergency Rule in 3 States (II)
Misbau ‘Mislaw’ Lateef For ease of reference and purpose of understanding, I have decided to start this concluding part of our last ...PIB – A Contrarian’s Fury
Last week on this platform I did an analysis of the current version of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) – that contentious ...FAGRO FLAYS: Letter to Monsieur President
‘Sola Fagorusi Mr President, let me start by wishing you a happy democracy day. When the May 29 day was chosen as ...FEMI TAIWO ON MONDAY: Your Brother’s Keeper (ii)
Michael Oluwafemi Taiwo, PhD I assumed, rather hastily, in the first installment of this series that “we now know that there are ...The Constitutionality of GEJ’s Emergency Rule in 3 States (I)
Misbau ‘Mislaw’ Lateef After what seemed an endless cluelessness on how to confront the Boko Haram insurgency in some parts of the ...Age and the Nigerian Entrepreneur
Recently, a friend and university classmate of mine surprised me. I contacted him for something and he told me he had resigned ...Tints in Vehicle Glasses, You, Police and the Law (II)
Misbau ‘Mislaw’ Lateef In this concluding part of our discussion on the above subject, it is worth refreshing our memories, first and ...Your Brother’s Keeper
Michael Oluwafemi Taiwo, PhD We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever ...Tints in Vehicle Glasses, You, Police and the Law (I).
Misbau ‘Mislaw’ Lateef Factory fitted or manually fitted, opaque or no opaque, vehicle owners and users in the recent time have ...Letter to my Future Wife
‘Sola Fagorusi As it is now, I can submit that I have been graced beyond measures by a great family – ...FEMI TAIWO ON MONDAY: Taking Achebe’s Challenge (ii)
Michael Oluwafemi Taiwo, PhD Last week we ended by talking about self-examination. Self-examination as a leadership tool will lead you to see ...Mike Adenuga: Salute to ‘the Guru’ at 60
Suraj Oyewale He has different monikers. ‘The Guru’ and ‘the Bull’ are two of them. The guru is one that has extraordinary ...The Law and the Fourth Estate of the Realm
Misbau ‘Mislaw’ Lateef The term Fourth Estate of the Realm, a descriptive term for the Press, is almost unanimously agreed to have ...Two Days at Nigeria’s Premier Teaching Hospital
‘Sola Fagorusi As a country, we are still far from it. We are eon years away from that point when to die ...Taxation for Dummies (ii)
Suraj Oyewale The bulk of the revenue of the government of Nigeria comes from direct taxes. Direct taxes, like I explained in ...Nigeria: Secular or Non Secular?
Misbau ‘Mislaw’ Lateef In the midst of often conflicting and competing ideas for publication, particularly in a badly run country like ours ...Two Can Play: A Tale of Government and Young People (ii)
‘Sola Fagorusi Several myths have been around in Nigeria for years. Given that young people are closer to their peers; these myths ...
