Today's Spotlight: Enase Okonedo, FCA.
She is currently the Vice-Chancellor of Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos and former dean of Lagos Business School (LBS).
She's held Chairman/Director roles at:
• Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI),Togo
• MidWestern Oil & Gas
• ATC Nigeria Wireless
• Global Business School Network (GBSN)
• Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC, owners of the GMAT exam).
• United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (UNPRME)
• Association of African Business Schools
She holds:
• BSc in accounting from the University of Benin
• MBA from the IESE Business School in Barcelona and
• Doctorate in business administration from the International School of Management in Paris.
She is a role model for the younger generation.
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Rabbighfirli - My Lord, forgive me
Warhamni - Have mercy on me
Wajburni - Cover my shame
Warfa'ni - Raise my rank
Warzuqni - Give me sustenance
Wahdini - Give me guidance
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Wa'fu'anni - pardon me
I have a theory: Nigerian leaders struggle to handle complexity and anything with moving parts. We can pour concrete. It’s pretty straightforward. I guess that is why people see roads being built and say that Governance is not rocket science. If roads are what they mean by governance, they would be right: it’s not rocket science.
When it comes to complexity, multiple components, or moving parts, our leaders tend to struggle. For instance, electricity involves generation, transmission, distribution, metering, billing and tariff management. Complexity. We don’t handle it well.
That is why, when a new governor succeeds one who has already poured concrete, they seem clueless about what to do next. Facilitating the economic activity that will make use of the roads and buildings is harder than pouring the concrete to build them. It requires brain power. Complexity hurts the brain. We don’t like it.
In countries like France, most politicians would be expected to have attended one of the governance schools if they want to seek high public office. In the UK, you would probably have studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford or Cambridge. In the USA, it would be usual for you to have attended an Ivy League university. Same as Japan and Singapore. In all these places, you would be exposed to complexity, innovation and problem-solving.
In Nigeria, all you need is to have completed a course of secondary education. Did you know that you actually don’t have to have a WAEC certificate? You just need to have finished secondary education, you don’t need to have passed WAEC or even NECO. Is it surprising the quality of leaders that we have?
It is not about having a PhD. Most Nigerian governors with PhDs have been thoroughly disappointing. It is more about being equipped with the skills and intellectual rigour to handle the complexity of governing others and making the best decisions on their behalf.
I would suggest that we upgrade the Public Service Institute of Nigeria and the Administrative Staff College of Nigeria into proper governance schools. We should then make
it mandatory that all politicians who want to occupy elective executive positions (like LGA Chairman, Speaker, Senate President, Deputy Governor, Governor, Vice President or President) must attend and graduate from those institutions before they can even seek any elective public office at all.
Do you agree with my theory? If not, do you have a counter theory? If you agree, do you think that this would make any difference? If you think that it won’t make any difference, what do you think would? #NaijaKnowledgeX
Don’t Wish for an End — Wait for Allah’s Plan The Prophet SAW said:
“Do not wish for death because of hardship, but say:
‘O Allah, keep me alive as long as life is good for me,
and take me when death is better for me.!”
— Sahih al-Bukhari (5671), Sahih Muslim (2680)
MAD House UNILAG is not a symbolic or didactic gesture, it is architecture as
creative engine.
Rooted in container-based modularity, local material logic, and programmatic adaptability, it offers a concrete architectural argument for
Nigeria’s creative potential.
Even at night, the newly renovated National Theatre in Lagos pulses with life
Such a beauty to behold!
Lagos, 2025.
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