With 32.70 per cent headline inflation, 40.20 per cent food inflation, and bread inflation of 45 per cent, all caused by the removal of subsidies from petrol and electricity, and …
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How impunity fuels Nigeria’s underdevelopment
Over time, I have been reflecting on Nigeria’s underdevelopment status despite our great potential. Many say our problem is leadership; others think it is followership. Not a few have also …
Read More »Wanted: Budgetary reform for institutional-based governance
The deplorable state of Nigeria is precisely because all our political leaders, since colonial independence in 1960, have adhered to a paradigm that prescribes the use of budgeting as a …
Read More »Ekiti State, public service efficiency and sustainable development
Let me start by felicitating His Excellency, the Executive Governor of Ekiti State—Mr. Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji—on the occasion of his second anniversary as the chief executive of this great state. …
Read More »Theresa Chikeka: The retired judge who is chief judge of Imo State?
The judicial career of Francis Chukwuma Abosi was supposed to last only seven years. In the event, he did 12 and may well have reached 20 years if events had …
Read More »The paradox of a declining optimism
It is often said that hope is the last thing a person loses before giving up finally on all fronts. The post The paradox of a declining optimism appeared first …
Read More »Posers NNPCL must address for Nigerians
Who is Pharaoh Ramses II, the Great? According to history and the book titled Ramesses II: Pharaoh of Glory by Kenneth Kitchen, Pharaoh Ramesses II, ruled Egypt from 1279 to …
Read More »A vote of confidence ‘on Akpabio’ or’ ‘in Akpabio’?
Thank God I was not in the Senate’s hallowed chamber in Abuja on Thursday, October 17, 2024. That was the day Nigerian senators affirmed their belief in the leadership of …
Read More »Presidential monologue – Part 41
Good morning Mr President. I am refreshing your memory on the issue of the farmer-herder crisis, a euphemism for the landgrab project of the hegemonic Fulani elite to inflict internal …
Read More »No, living is already too hard
Manufacturers last week, lamented that they cannot survive the extortionate electricity cost charged by private owners in collusion with government. Speaking on behalf of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria The …
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