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http://ift.tt/2pit9ff The event with the theme: “Nigeria’s Future: The Role of Exceptional Leadership,” would be a platform to equip students with leadership skills for success in the private and public sectors as students and through their adult lives.PHOTO: New.unl.edu In response to Nigeria’s leadership crisis, the Royal Foundation International (RFI) is set to host it National Leadership Summit (NLS) on Friday, June 9, 2017 at the Covenant University Secondary School, Ota, Ogun State. The event with the theme: “Nigeria’s Future: The Role of Exceptional Leadership,” would be a platform to equip students with leadership skills for success in the private and public sectors as students and through their adult lives. Convener of the summit, Femi Royal Aliu said, “Royal Foundation International is a youth organisation that uses innovation and cutting edge technology to package fellowship programmes, internships and summits for young people to promote individual effectiveness, wealt...

http://ift.tt/2q5thP4 Asiwaju Bola Tinubu Nigeria is at a juncture where it must redefine itself or forever forfeit the right of way to a better future.  The primary challenge of our time is our political economy.  The slump in oil prices exposed the weakness of our economy for even the blind to see.  The truth be told, we always knew this weakness existed. Yet we did nothing to cure it when fixing the gap would have been less painful and less urgent. Through indifference, selfishness or ignorance we failed to forge a consensus on how to resolve the collective problem. This failure speaks to a problem of our politics because the decision on how to structure the economy is essentially political in nature. For all the energy invested in politics, the output has been minimal. In short, our politics has been directed at the wrong things. Because of this, Nigeria has too long travelled a self-defeating economic road. Dare not think that we can afford to sit idly and ...

http://ift.tt/2qG5IM7 The massive global cyber attack that wreaked havoc in computer systems earlier this month caused plenty of visible disruption, not least in Britain’s National Health Service. But in the brave new inter-connected world heralded by the internet of things (IoT), so-called “ransomware” attacks could have as their source something quite mundane and yet present in ever more modern households. In a not so far-off future, the source of a software glitch with serious consequences for the simple consumer could be anything from a connected coffee machine or refrigerator to a techie toy or an outsmart-you television. Web-connected gadgets are becoming all the rage with tech-aware professionals. But the mere idea that it only needs a hacker to give the software a malevolent tweak to send them on the blink with disastrous consequences may yet threaten the development of such goods’ popular take-up. “Regarding last weekend’s attack there is no risk for connected obje...

http://ift.tt/2r7mx3O Funmilayo Omo The Board of Directors, African Alliance Insurance Plc, has confirmed the appointment of Mrs. Funmilayo Omo, as the new managing director and chief executive officer of the company. Omo’s appointment as the acting chief executive of the 56 year old life specialist underwriting firm on March 3, 2017, followed the retirement of the erstwhile managing director, Alohons Okpo. A statement from the corporate communications personnel of the company, Stella Osanebi, said Omo’s appointment was recently confirmed by the industry regulator, National Insurance Commission (NAICOM). Omo is a graduate of the University of Lagos, and was awarded a B.Sc. Degree in Insurance in 1990. She was trained as a Life Insurance Underwriter by Munich Re in South Africa, and has over 26 years’ experience in Life and Pension Business. She joined African Alliance Insurance Plc (then a Limited Liability Company), as an Assistant Superintendent in 1991, and later rose t...

http://ift.tt/2r7mRQ7 Edwin Igbiti The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, AIICO Insurance Plc, Edwin Igbiti, has disclosed that plans are underway to grow market premium by maintaining close relationship with brokers and agents. Speaking with journalists at a pre-yearly general meeting in Lagos, Igbiti said the firm will continue to engage with its partners to ensure that it found mutually beneficial ways to work with them. According to him, “We will focus on improving efficiency across it businesses while embedding a culture of rigorous performance management across the organisation.” He said: “We will continue to invest in our people to increase our human capital, adding we believe that a motivated workforce will represent the company better to our clients. “Despite the present economic conditions, we have never been more optimistic about the future of this company. We know exactly who we are and where we want to be.” Speaking further, Igbiti disclosed that unde...

http://ift.tt/2oW9UIg Nigerian Senate. PHOTO:nta.ng Nigeria suffers from a crisis of leadership and followership and reminds me of Julius Nyerere’s Tanzania. The Tanzania of Julius Nyerere’s era was poor and lacked capacity. Sisal, its principal export crop was cultivated by foreigners on foreign-owned plantations. And coffee by the peasantry. The level of education was so abysmal that at independence in 1961, for a country of 12 million people, there were only less than one hundred university graduates and the per capita income equals £25 annually. Nyerere, a well-educated Tanzanian, became prime minister in 1960 and president in 1961. The Tangayika African National Union (T.A.N.U) which he led instituted reforms to free the country from massive poverty, lack of infrastructure, encourage self-reliance and freedom from total dependence on Western countries (notably Britain and West Germany of that era). The Arusha Declaration of February 1967 even though was successful in the are...