Mr Kunle Alake, the Dangote Group COO, tells BusinessDay that the textile industry in Nigeria cannot be viable, and he cites the usual suspect: smuggling. “The Nigerian textile industry is dead; it has been dead since the last 5 years. It cannot be resuscitated with N70 billion, those pushing for the resuscitation are only after… Read More »
My time in Benin came to an end a couple of weeks ago, and I left the cute, not-even-anyway-near-as-rowdy-as-Lagos-but-busy-enough-to-be-called-a-city Cotonou. I spent a couple of days in Lagos and then went to the University of Nigeria Nsukka for some work. That was my second time in southeastern Nigeria and I decided to go by road… Read More »
I just learnt that Lamidi Adedibu is dead. I am yet to get the details but I can remember that I learnt a couple of weeks ago that he was admitted in a Lagos-based hospital. It is going to be interesting to see what becomes of Ibadan politics. Remember how Ibadan was described as a… Read More »