• • Ekwueme-Nomics and Nigeria’s Future 

As I wondered how best to wish you [Dr. Alex Ekwueme] a happy 80th birthday, I recalled that famous admonition by philosopher Ayn Rand on what may both refer to your sojourn so far and the road ahead: “Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours”!  

• • • Swimming in a fish-bowl to justify the unjustifiable 
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Atlas Shrugged  | One of my favorite authors, Ayn Rand, taught the virtue of selfishness and the disintegration of rational inquiry. Her best seller Atlas Shrugged, is however one book that I return to every now and then. The book was written in 1957. Ayn Rand, a Russian migrant that lived in the USA and became a house-hold name for her teachings on objectivism, was probably the best known and perhaps widest read philosopher of the 20th century. She was a woman of substance.