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Aliko Dangote, Nigeria’s truest capitalist? By Suleiman A. Suleiman

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 […]
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Nigerians need more, not less govt intervention

Nigerians need more, not less govt intervention

NIGERIANS need more government intervention, not less. All modern development has been government-driven. Nigerians need their government to regulate and provide for their basic needs, not a deregulated society where greed is hailed as enterprise; the rich get richer and the poor are sentenced to a live of misery.

Ghost workers: Who is deceiving who?

Ghost workers: Who is deceiving who?

The Nigerian Public service is reportedly heavily burdened with a ghost population, who not only unexpectedly write job applications and present themselves for interviews, but who also open bank accounts and collect salaries, despite their human shortcomings! Curiously, the CBN’s “know your customers” directive to banks was obviously no deterrent to the establishment of bank accounts for such ghosts!

Federal government building castles in the air

Federal government building castles in the air

Dosumu attended Baptist Academy, then on Broad Street in Lagos Island, and was so good in Bible Knowledge, he was one of few members of his set who collected distinction in BK at the Cambridge School Certificate among a string of other distinctions. He went further to bag the prestigious ASPAU scholarship to study in the United States – becoming the first “Lagos Boy” to do so. He was in the Midwest of the USA where he and Dr Kalu Idika Kalu and others made Nigeria proud by their achievements. Each collected a doctorate in his field of study. Wahab’s was Engineering.

Wike goofed at Sultan’s palace

Wike goofed at Sultan’s palace

NYESOM WIKE is one of the most outstanding politicians of the past two years or so. When his predecessor, former friend and boss, Chibuike Amaechi, as the Governor of Rivers State took the mandate the people gave him to the All Progressives Congress, APC, to fight former President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election bid, the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, started looking for a strong candidate to retrieve the oil-rich state from the clutches of the

For once, let’s applaud Buhari

For once, let’s applaud Buhari

It is only fair that Nigerians who claimed to have elected President Buhari as a man that can rid the nation of corruption should not also become hyper-critical about a result-oriented approach to the hydra-headed monster