A re-edited “Dandalin Siyasa” platform exchange reproduced here reveals certain expectations on GMB shortly after the 2015 elections. Though he’d been ill half the time since then, the facts suggest that the PDP way of doing things seems to have prevailed thus far. Will it prevail all through?

Nigeria desperately needs restructuring; and restructuring will happen eventually – and in the not-too-distant future, for that matter – whether Buhari and other staunch traditionalists like it or not!

WHEN I was in the Governing Body of the United Nations International Labour Organisation, ILO, representing African workers, I made a checklist of countries and their ratification of International Labour Conventions. I discovered that Zimbabwe, Nigeria and South Africa have some of the best Labour laws in the world. In contrast, that the United States, US, the supposed citadel of freedom and democracy, has disdain for basic Labour rights and conventions.

Those who should be angry and tearing down fences, are the ones who are preaching law and the due process of law; yet those who steal our patrimony have not the littlest scruple subverting the law

The subsidy game has been a political one and has not been played on the rings of economic data