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Peter Obi is a rare leader to have. Aside from being schooled in practical business, as governor of Anambra state he demonstrated his capability to lead prudently and productively. He is not a transactional politician in the Nigerian sense, but a disrupter-innovator who is in politics to fulfill a mission. He has set the bar higher than where the incumbents ever imagined reaching and proven that the change Nigerians yearn for is possible. It's time to get this country out of the woods and back on course to economic growth and development, away from the precipice of doom. However, a lot will depend on how committed INEC will remain to hold its integrity and independence high above the lucre of bribes and sectional cleavages. This is our chance; we must hold it well before it slips off.

Multilateral diplomacy helps entities in a coalition identify their common vision and amalgamate their activities in ways that aid them work together regardless of their obvious differences. Modern diplomacy is about common interests and goals, and a shared vision; there are neither permanent friends nor enemies. Even countries at war can still have common grounds to call a ceasefire if the interest of the rival parties converges. Founded upon multilateral diplomacy, the BRICS has demonstrated that the diversity of members of a bloc or coalition should not inhibit the group's effective functioning. On the contrary greater diversity help identify the necessary complementarities needed for win-win exchanges among the members. This book explains how the soft power of the BRICS members is agglomerating to keep the bloc stronger and why their diversity makes augmenting their capabilities more successful. It follows that very different nations can come together to function effectively as a diplomatic bloc.Prof. Uwem Essia is an economist with many years of teaching, research, and consulting experience in economics, the management sciences, and related human development fields. He is currently engaged in private studies and publishing.

The propensity to adopt criminality as a way of life is rooted in one's upbringing and self-orientation. Most criminals from childhood spend their lives mired in behavioral poverty; making wrong choices, and consequently accepting crimes as shortcuts to maximizing their present enjoyment at the expense of long-term wellness for themselves and others. Behavioral poverty is encapsulated in the attitudes, values, emotions, and beliefs that justify entitlement thinking, the spurning of personal responsibility, and the rejection of the received norms/mechanisms of advancement. It is characterized by high self-indulgence, low self-regulation, exploitation of others, and limited motivation and effort toward making an honest living. It is also correlated with a range of antisocial, immoral, and imprudent behaviors, including substance abuse, gambling, stealing, insolvency, poor health habits, gangsterism, and other sundry crimes. Once an individual matures in criminality, getting out of it is difficult, albeit possible with a determination to replace behavioral poverty with hard work, discipline, and purposeful living. Prof. Uwem Essia is an economist with many years of teaching, research, and consulting experience in economics, the management sciences, and related human development fields. He is currently engaged in private studies and publishing.

GRC Trends and Best Practices provides a comprehensive overview of the key concepts, trends, and practices in the field of GRC. It explores the challenges faced by organizations in managing risks, complying with regulations, and ensuring good governance practices, and provides insights into the best practices that can help organizations overcome these challenges. Among other issues, the importance of adopting a holistic approach to GRC, which involves integrating risk management, compliance, and governance practices to create a unified framework is highlighted

With the Covid pandemic, the crises in economic thinking identified since the mid-1960ss have come back to focus. Principally, it has become more obvious now that thoughts and perceptions affect the economic decisions people make, as much as prices and incomes. Economics is thus not an exact science, but an interpretive discipline and a diagnostic science. It is also obvious that economic thinking/actions are shaped by social consciousness. The universe of economics is cultural, and common thinking is essentially intergenerational. Mental-cultural relationships affect human behavior and shape how households, firms, civil society, and even governments reason and act. Hence, to be relevant, the new economics has to be behavioral, less deterministic, less individualistic, and more culturally and ideologically inspired.Prof. Uwem Essia is an economist with many years of teaching, research, and consulting experience in economics, the management sciences, and related human development fields. He is currently engaged in private studies and publishing.

The term ESG was popularly used first in a 2004 report titled "Who Cares Wins", a joint initiative of financial institutions at the invitation of the UN. Since then, the ESG movement has metamorphosed from a corporate social responsibility initiative into a global phenomenon involving the management of assets and supply chains. ESG criteria have supported the allocation of resources for several value-adding projects. However, ESG data is qualitative; intangible, non-financial, and not readily quantifiable in monetary terms. Researchers are making efforts to deal with the above observed gaps by proposing new ESG linked factors and frameworks, like those presented and discussed here.

This book submits that the recent Anglophone crises in Cameroon is protracted for two main reasons.Firstly, the unreconstructed colonially inspired education system has institutionalized a bifurcated elite class based on the historic French-British cultural rivalry. The two cultures have historically not been mixed successfully in a Unitarian state structure. Implementing education system reforms to progressively unify the intellectual culture of upcoming Cameroonian youth elites is necessary.Secondly, many disadvantaged youths perceive that they are excluded from participation spaces and support systems that can help them realize their aspirations. To deal with this aspiration gap crises, an alchemical process to transform the mental models of ex-combatants, and those at risk of joining rebellions movements, is proposed and articulated here. The mindset transformation program will ease the process of accumulating ingenuity capital and channel the beneficiaries towards utilizing it in productive activities.Success in implementing both transformational processes will end the Anglophone crises, and at the same time leapfrog Cameroon to economic emergence sooner than can be imagined.