What shall we do about South Africa?
RIGHT OF REPLY Approximately 1,030 words Azu Ishiekwene asks the right question, and he is right that the World Cup answered it before any of us did. The hostility Bafana Bafana met in those stadiums was not football. It was a bill arriving. I take his question seriously and respectfully disagree with part of how […]
2017: Diary of a columnist (2)
Nigeria is not any less a ‘federal system’ than any of the world renowned practitioners of it. It is fundamentally wrong to suggest that a system is not a ‘true federation’ because its two levels of governmental administration are not ‘co-ordinate and independent’ politically or economically
Miyetti Allah, Muhammadu Buhari and the rest of us
The obvious failure of intelligence or indeed criminal complicity that has allowed the bloody orgy across the country these last few years and now, from Omoku in Rivers State, to Ilorin, Kaduna and Benue in just a few days of 2018, are matters the president and his security chiefs have to answer for
Where are Nigeria’s technocrats?
We are yet to fully give ourselves the means to succeed by attacking the issues right at the root; what government will be brave enough to do this?
Fuel supply sabotage and the enemy inside
If we are looking for sabouters, the second place to look is NNPC; we are sure to find many who are either directly sabotaging government’s wishes or collaborating with others to do so
Rising Poverty in Nigeria: Solution (2)
“Most of the economic, monetary and banking policies over the years have inflicted hardship on the ordinary people causing inflation and making life more and more difficult for the ordinary people and breeding more poverty stricken people”.
