I CLOSED last week with this key point, namely: that the ‘freedom of the press’ –ironically- does not belong to the press. That media ethicists say it is a ‘public trust’ reposed in the media to be enjoyed not by the media, but by the people. And that although journalists must be constantly alert to see that “the public’s business is conducted in public”, they must also “be vigilant against all who would exploit the press for selfish purposes, including from amongst themselves”.

FORMER Vice President Atiku Abubakar has been singing a tune, which I find strange for a Northern politician of Fulani extraction. Ordinarily, there should be no nexus between tribe and ideology, in that anyone from any ethnic background could be a Marxist, Capitalist, Theocrat (Islamist or Christian fundamentalist, if there is any such thing) or the everything-goes Libertarians like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

When will we, the people, free ourselves from our Stockholm syndrome and stop celebrating our captors? With the intensity of the debates surrounding the economy (debate is a big word, all we’re really saying is that something needs to be done, very few solutions are ever truly proffered), it must be pointed out that yet again, we limit ourselves to surface issues and seemingly refuse to broaden the scope of our interrogations. I am not one of those who believes Buhari must stop blaming PDP or Jonathan for the mistakes made in

THE above question probably sounds very unfair and it’s probably in order to address what makes it so before going on any further. The first thing is that the question gives the impression we are under the control of a leader, a pilot or a driver of a vehicle who has lost his sense of direction.

A recession has many attributes that can occur simultaneously and includes declines in component measures of economic activity (GDP) such as consumption, investment, government spending, and net export activity.