Atiku is right, subsidy removal needs revisiting – 2
By Dele Sobowale Some called it lunacy; others were more polite in their condemnation of the idea of government reversing itself. Few did the rational thing when confronted with a proposal on a vital public interest. Most of Atiku’s traducers were political opponents; who were afraid that the idea might just be popular and could […]
Trust!
Blessed are those who are not expecting, for they shall not be disappointed
Wealth and abstruse NNPC petroleum operations
It is embarrassingly unimaginable that today we sell crude oil for an average of US$350 a ton and buy back refined imported products and derivatives from that quantity for as much as US$3000
Conversations with African liberation fighters
WHEN I boarded the protocol bus at Algiers Airport on November 28, 2016, a lady politely greeted me in faulty Yoruba. Given my dressing, she guessed correctly that I am Nigerian.
An exemplary daughter of Africa
WHEN we were young (many moons ago!), I shared a flat in London with a clever, vivacious and beautiful fellow journalist called Aminatta Forna. Her mother was Scottish. Her father, Mohammed Forna, a highly principled native of Sierra Leone, had started his career as a medical doctor, then branched into politics.
Appreciating the all powerful Press
GOVERNMENTS have become too reactionary perhaps as a result of their ignorance of the enormous power of the press.
