Showing posts with label Chinua Achebe Leadership Forum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chinua Achebe Leadership Forum. Show all posts

Friday, November 29, 2024

Obasanjo’s Moment Of Epiphany

 By Promise Adiele

I met Olusegun Obasanjo for the first time in his Abeokuta home in 2017. I had gone to interview him with Prof. Hope Eghagha as part of the research materials we needed for a national project. After three hours of robust engagement on various topics about Nigeria, I no longer had any illusions about Obasanjo’s sagacity, intellect, and sometimes exaggerations which exonerated him of all culpabilities, creating an infallible image of a being.

*Obasanjo 

To say that Obasanjo is intelligent is to put it mildly. He recounted historical events with an uncanny exactitude and subtle arrogance that belies his position as a no-nonsense former leader of the most populous black country in the world. One can profitably argue that few people know or understand Nigeria more than Olusegun Obasanjo.

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Why Bola Tinubu Is Insensitive To End Hardship

 By Dan Onwukwe

Do you know why Bola Tinubu is always pushing the envelope on presidential powers and ignoring calls to end pervasive hardship in the country?

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First, let’s get a textbook explanation for this question. Students of Management are familiar with this case study: It’s a common complaint in which managers of a knowledge-based company grumbled that the Chief Executive Officer couldn’t get his engineers to think like a leader. As it’s in corporate organisations so it is in politics.