Category: Policy
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Kayode Fayemi was a pro-democracy activist of the Generals Babangida and Abacha eras, later joining politics to become governor of Ekiti state in 2010 and a cabinet member of President Buhari government in 2015. Fayemi was elected governor the second time in 2019. Growing Up Born in Ibadan in 1965, with his formative years…
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NEEDS, National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy was Nigeria’s home grown poverty reduction and socio-economic development strategy under Olusegun Obasanjo‘s presidency. This framework for actions, developed by a 35-member drafting committee was headed by Economic Adviser, Chukwuma Soludo. As reflected in Obasanjo’s address at the launching of the nationwide consultation on the initiative, caution was…
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Henry Dallimore was a pionner Christian missionary in old Ekiti Division and founder of the area’s premier secondary school; Christ School, Ado-Ekiti. Born 1885 in England, Dallimore came to Ekiti, Nigeria in 1925 alongside Rev. T. Harding, Mr. Babamboni, and Canon Jebb. Before this time, he had expressed his dissatisfaction with the defects and the conservatism…
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Anti-Slavery and Aborigine Society was a group formed as a corrective against the imperfections of the Crown Colony systems. Lagos Auxiliary of this society, founded by Christopher Sapara Williams in 1905 was described by Gbadegesin in a 2006 doctoral thesis to the Emory University as an equitable opposition coalition that was characterized by extralocal engagement…
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Communism is an ideology based on the precept of “common ownership” most popularly believed to have originated from the Greek philosopher, Plato’s 380BC piece, “The Republic” in which he described a state where people shared all their property, wives, and children. With the 1917 October revolution in Russia that brought the first communist organization to…
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Bilateralism is a global phenomenon, like multiteralism, manifested in the dimensions of the economic, cultural, and political at public and private sector’s levels. In its economic dimension, bilateralism of government level involves trade and investment relations between two sovereign nations with the objective of stimulating, supporting, and strengthening economic development of nations. Economic relations between…
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Meritocracy is an elite group whose progress is earned with their intellectual prowess, rather than wealth or class privilege. The term also describes the practise of this form of government. Power is vested in meritocrats for having distinguished themselves by success in standardized examinations, as is the case for civil service exams, for instance, or…