Anthony A. Kila

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Anthony Kila is a Jean Monnet professor of Strategy and Development. He is currently Director of studies at CIAPS; the Centre for International Advanced and Professional Studies. He is a regular commentator on the BBC and he works with various organisations on International Development projects across Europe, Africa and the USA. He writes from Cambridge in England, UK.
Nigeria Matters

The joy of normalcy

Anthony A. Kila -
One of the greatest and perhaps most damaging idiosyncrasies of Nigeria is the quest for greatness without ever striving for normalcy. There is a sort of a born-to-be-great self-delusionary mindset that has for long induced Nigerian leaders and its people talk about achieving greatness when they have not even got the basics of normalcy right...
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FAO Abiola Family

Anthony A. Kila -
As we mark yet another June 12, there are some simple but important considerations that we, the people of Nigeria within and beyond the borders of the country need to continue to seriously make. Ordinarily, considerations and discussions about a Nigerian June 12 should be general and amongst citizens and scholars on civics and sovereignty of nations...
Nigeria Matters

Too easy to blame just Jonathan

Anthony A. Kila -
With his recent declaration intent to change the name of University of Lagos in honor of the winner of June 12 1993 presidential elections, Nigerian President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan has again confirmed what many of us of think of him and his administration: he is leading an error-prone presidency...
Nigeria Matters

Aregbesola should mind his business

Anthony A. Kila -
Aregbesola made the call for the establishment of a northern ministry whilst delivering a speech at a symposium on ‘Islam and Peaceful Co-existence in Contemporary Multi-Religious State’ in Abuja. In the governor’s intention, such ministry will have the task of dealing with the problems of unemployment, poverty and women affairs in the north...
Sports

Let us form a group to honor Rashidi Yekini

Anthony A. Kila -
Rashidi Yekini is dead. He died on Friday. Yekini was by all accounts a devout Muslim and was quickly buried the next day, in accordance with Muslim rites. Going by reports we have, the mode in which he was buried is however unacceptable. No need to mince words here, the burial given to Rashidi Yekini is unbefitting of the man and his country...
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Edwin Clark versus Nigeria

Anthony A. Kila -
Part of the significant changes that came with the emergence of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan in Nigerian national discourse are the metamorphosis of and the new role assumed by Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clarke...
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On this one Olisa Agbakoba is wrong

Anthony A. Kila -
If we want Nigerian airlines to expand, be profitable and to employ more people, the efficient way forward is to make them competitive and attractive to not only Nigerians but also to the rest of the world...
Africa

If Mitt Romney were Nigerian

Anthony A. Kila -
Brace yourself if you have not been following the republican primaries. Amongst his own party members, Mitt Romney’s problem is simply that he is too rich, too removed, too sophisticated to win people over....
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