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Nov 29, 2024 | 
businessday.ng | Maxwell Adeyemi Adeleye
If you’re a Nigerian living abroad, you’ll understand the hassle people face just to renew their passport. This task that should be a mundane, ordinary task in any advanced country triggers dread and frustration in us. For many years, the passport application process has been marred with inefficiency and corruption, and even ordinary logistics was an issue.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
thenationonlineng.net | Maxwell Adeyemi Adeleye
By Maxwell Adeyemi AdeleyeSir: If you’re a Nigerian living abroad, you’ll understand the hassle people face just to renew their international passport. This task that should be a mundane, ordinary task in any advanced country triggers dread and frustration in us. For many years, the passport application process has been marred with inefficiency and corruption; even ordinary logistics was an issue.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
thenationonlineng.net | Maxwell Adeyemi Adeleye
By Maxwell Adeyemi AdeleyeSir: As Nigerian born Olukemi Badenoch achieved a remarkable feat in the politics of United Kingdom (UK), praises and encouragement should be in order to celebrate this amazing woman in all ramifications. Born Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke of Ondo Ekinmogun, Ondo West Local Government Area of Ondo State, it gladdens the heart that a Nigerian blood became a conservative icon, replacing Rishi Sunak, the immediate past Prime Minister.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
herald.ng | Maxwell Adeyemi Adeleye
As someone who watched the Nigerian oil industry with frustration and hope, the recent news of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) ending its exclusive purchase agreement with the Dangote Refinery gives me an unexplainable joy. For years, Nigeria has been stuck in the claws of monopolistic practices and market inefficiencies in which Dangote seems to be the center of it. The news about the creation of Dangote Refinery felt like the beginning of a revolution in Nigeria.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
newspotng.com | Maxwell Adeyemi Adeleye
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In what appears to be a move to mend his fractured relationship with leaders of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, in Kano, Governor Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf has met with aggrieved National Assembly members of the party in Abuja. The meeting, according to the governor who posted on his Facebook timeline, was held to discuss critical issues that concern the state and the party.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
newspotng.com | Maxwell Adeyemi Adeleye
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Marco van Basten has criticised Manchester United’s decision to sign Manuel Ugarte and believes the midfielder is ‘not even worth a quarter’ of his £50.5 million transfer fee. United signed Ugarte from Paris Saint-Germain in the summer window with Erik ten Hag keen to strengthen the defensive side of his midfield. The Uruguay international has made five appearances so far, and his first start in the Premier League came in United’s 3-0 defeat to Tottenham on September 29.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
businessday.ng | Maxwell Adeyemi Adeleye
A legendary world icon and freedom fighter of blessed memory, Nelson Mandela, in response to a question on why he retracted a statement against an associate whom he had accused of colluding with external forces to incarcerate him for 27 years, opined that “only a fool refuses to change his position when confronted with new information.” Greatest Nigerian people, in the last few days, I have had a personal virtual encounter with the Minister of Interior, Bunmi Tunji-Ojo, fondly called BTO, and...
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
guardian.ng | Maxwell Adeyemi Adeleye |Kareem Itunu Azeez
Wednesday, 2nd October 2024 A Legendary World Icon and freedom fighter of blessed memory, Nelson Mandela, in response to a question on why he retracted a statement against an associate whom he had accused of colluding with external forces to incarcerate him for 27 years, opined that “only a fool refuses to change his position when confronted with new information”.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
businessday.ng | Maxwell Adeyemi Adeleye
In 2024, Nigeria eagerly awaited the start of operations at the Dangote Refinery, a project seen as a potential game-changer for the nation’s oil-dependent economy. Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, had built a business empire across several industries, and many hoped that his entry into oil refining would ease the burden of inflated fuel prices. Yet, nearly a year after the refinery’s launch, the anticipated relief remains elusive.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
businessday.ng | Maxwell Adeyemi Adeleye
Nigeria, a giant nation in Africa and a major oil-producing nation, has engaged in a business aberration for decades: she sells her crude oil, her major source of revenue, to the world in US dollars. This practice, they say, is in line with the global norm where the dollar serves as the dominant currency for international trade—a western neoclassical and monopolistic agenda promulgated to control the economy of the third world.
