Aliko Dangote, Nigeria’s truest capitalist? By Suleiman A. Suleiman
([email protected]; 07066451983 SMS) Nigeria has a complicated relationship with capitalism. For the most part, it is barely understood. In Nigeria, capitalism is often presented as something inherently bad. This draws from the residual legacy of Nigerian Marxism, and a religious ethos that sometimes viewspoverty as a moral trophy. The idea that “money is the root of all evil” remains one of the most popular sayings in our public culture, even […]
Black humour in NNPC power transmission plan
The non-reliability of the state owned Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN necessitated its privatization by the Federal Government a few years ago
Bola Tinubu at 65
The truth is that you cannot effect any meaningful change when you have no control
Gov Yari and the gods of Meningitis
If the gods have abandoned their duties or have become manifestly biased, they must let us know; how could they let the Paris club refund be looted in states where workers are owed mountains of salaries and there are no outbreaks of bubonic plagues in government houses?
Police suicides
According to an old article I recently chanced upon in The Will, an online publication, our Police Force has “declared its worry over the rising cases of suicide among its officers across the country.”
A rare success
By Donu Kogbara ROTIMI Amaechi, the Minister of Transport, should be heartily congratulated for establishing an efficient railway service between the Federal capital and Kaduna. When it was announced that Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport would be shut down for six weeks, starting March 8, while its ragged runways were being totally reconstructed, I was one […]
