Eyitayo Ande

Stay connected via Google News I will begin with a story a friend shared with me recently about a conversation he had with his cousin. The young man had just received his salary and, as usual, sat down with his phone to pay his bills and earmark funds for essential expenses – school fees, rent, foodstuffs, transportation, electricity, etc. Looking at what was left, he laughed.

Stay connected via Google News It is that period in our country’s political life when we begin to hear all sorts of divisive and toxic rhetoric from unexpected quarters. Amid this growing concern, controversial remarks recently attributed to the popular Muslim cleric, Sheikh Yahaya Jingir, have further heightened tensions.

Stay connected via Google News Countries do not become poor only because they run out of money. Sometimes, they become poorer because they run out of something far more valuable: institutional trust. History is replete with nations that possessed abundant natural resources, impressive infrastructure and enormous economic potential, yet found themselves isolated from the international investment community after squandering the assets I believe money cannot buy – trust and credibility.