Richard Ikiebe, Author at Businessday NG https://businessday.ng/author/roikiebe/ Mon, 07 Jul 2025 04:33:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://cdn.businessday.ng/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/cropped-BD-logo-32x32.jpeg Richard Ikiebe, Author at Businessday NG https://businessday.ng/author/roikiebe/ 32 32 Theft of the Nigerian mind: Why nobody is thinking for Nigeria https://businessday.ng/pro/article/theft-of-the-nigerian-mind-why-nobody-is-thinking-for-nigeria/ https://businessday.ng/pro/article/theft-of-the-nigerian-mind-why-nobody-is-thinking-for-nigeria/#respond Mon, 07 Jul 2025 04:33:51 +0000 https://businessday.ng/?p=994957 Pre-colonial “Nigeria” was intellectually vibrant and productive. Yorubaland developed a knowledge system called “Imo”— not just information, but knowledge applied

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The great gulf between Europe’s transformative ascent and Africa’s persistent developmental struggles cannot be explained by resources, geography, or circumstance

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Conversation about “reimagining Nigeria” has become a familiar refrain in our national discourse, with an ambitious timeline of achieving developed

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Nigeria’s relationship with national development planning represents one of the most perplexing paradoxes in contemporary African governance. For over eight

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When Nigeria’s military rulers gathered in the mid 1970s to design a new governance structure, they articulated compelling reasons for

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