Newsletter 16: How are you Using your Power?

The Business of Governance Newsletter No 16 | July 2021 Hello, How are you doing? Have you heard about the predictions that we might be entering the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic? Let me remind you again of the need to take personal responsibility – wash your hands, wear a mask and maintain social distancing […]

Newsletter 15: Subscribe to the Spirit of Eid al-Adha

The Business of Governance Newsletter No 15 | July 2021 Hello, How are you doing? Another two weeks have passed, and it is time for me to share with you again.  Next week, our Muslim brothers and sisters will celebrate Eid al-Adha, which honours Prophet Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice Ismail as an act of obedience […]

Newsletter 14: What is your Legacy?

The Business of Governance Newsletter No 14 | July 2021 Hello, How are you today? We are already halfway through 2021.  How about those goals you set for yourself in January? Are you meeting them? June 20, 2021, was Father’s Day. It was a day that got me reflecting on the legacy that I will […]

Newsletter 13: How do you want justice served?

The Business of Governance Newsletter No 13 | June 2021 How are you doing? I was thinking earlier today about how when I was interviewed by my team for our two years in office documentary, I was asked a question about the lowest point of this past year in office, May 2020-May 2021. I thought […]

Governor Seyi Makinde’s Keynote Address at the 2021 GSM National Democracy Summit

Governor Seyi Makinde speaking at the GSM National Democracy Summit

We are the Federal Republic of Nigeria. But our federalism exists in name only. Students of political history will tell you that what we have been practising is, in fact, a unitary system of government – where more powers are concentrated in the central government. Another thing that our political theorists will tell you is that by nature, a unitary system of government is better suited for small countries.