Reposts from my blog. www.agbolohun.com

Jun 30, 2016

The naira is a kite and other stories…

After a year of rancour, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) finally gave in and abandoned the unrealistic peg at N197 to $1 that it had maintained was suitable and necessary. The whole of social media was ablaze with commentary. When I read through the (pretty…

Bayo Owolabi

Jul 18, 2015

So The Economist thinks Godwin Emefiele should be sacked? Part 2

Picking up from where we left off, i.e So The Economist thinks Godwin Emefiele should be sacked? Part 1. I’ll start with a personal story. I had been saving up some money for a while to buy some stuff. The stuff were…

Bayo Owolabi

May 18, 2016

What will we do when the robots take our jobs?

Artificial intelligence.

Some think it will boost humanity to heights previously unimagined. Others believe it will be our undoing. Either way, we can all agree it will change the way the world works even if we can’t even…

Bayo Owolabi

May 15, 2016

African kids shouldn’t study quantum physics

Or things like that.

Bayo Owolabi

May 14, 2016

Kini Big Deal?!

A couple of days back I was reading Decoded, Jay Z’s autobiography and I got to this page below where he was talking about getting involved in Obama’s election — the first time round, those heady Yes! We Can! days.

Bayo Owolabi

Jul 18, 2015

So The Economist thinks Godwin Emefiele should be sacked? Part 1

Some wonder which would be worse for Nigeria: allowing him to serve the remaining four years of his term or undermining the independence of…

Bayo Owolabi

Oct 26, 2014

No Good Old Days…

We are the generation with no “good old days.” And that’s a good thing.

First, some disambiguation. When I say we, I mean those young Nigerians that grew up in the shadow of military coups, and disrupted school sessions. I mean those Nigerians who never experienced 24hrs…

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