Friday Musings with Ayo Olukotun [email protected]
“While it may be easier to be polite, it’s more important to face facts so that you can make progress”
American business mogul, Bill Gates, on Cable News Network, March 27, 2018
Visitors, especially when they come from other countries, confine themselves to courtesies, unctuous remarks and bonhomie. This was expectedly more so when Nigeria’s august visitor, Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates, was brought by his Nigerian hosts, our leaders, past the proverbial corridors of power into its inner chambers, an expanded meeting of the Federal Executive Council. That gesture itself, inviting a foreigner to the nation’s highest decision-making body, is dodgy and reeks of unusual deference which will be hard to find in most other counties outside Nigeria. But let us leave that point aside for now and go on to more substantive…
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