Oluyomi Ola-David Insights

Governance structure, infrastructure, intrastructure, and culture can and should be customised to each country context.  Laundry lists and consensus governmental frameworks sold by thought leaders in developed countries should never be adopted without reckoning unique domestic realities of developing countries. A rethink is necessary to adapt any good element gleaned from other economies. For a country like Nigeria with over 250 ethnic nationalities, 500 languages, and widespread ethnic fractionalisation, national leaders must develop and implement a unifying vision and regional governance structure to create a wholesome national culture.  Otherwise, internal conflicts and cessationist calls stirred by segments of the country that feel marginalised would continue to deter development and investment prospects of the country. Decades of implementing an unfit governance framework has only intensified conflicts and slowed the pace and pattern of development. Without needing to reinvent the

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In a dynamic global economy programmed with inevitable economic cycles of booms and busts, job security is a technical falsity. To my mind, 'job holding' sounds more realistic. In any and every job you ever hold, only your invaluable contributions may keep you employed for the long haul, if you choose to remain a placeholder. According to a Nigerian adage credited to the Yorubas, "it is the office that actually succeeds every officeholder". So, even if you lose a job during an 'unfavourable' economic cycle of recession, please do not despair. The skills you have built while you held a job can guarantee your sustainable development, IF ONLY you can think deep and through enough. The twin assets of skills and wholesome faith, if productively engaged, can keep you smiling through all business cycles.