Tacking poverty in Nigeria: Onus on crony billionaires, not self-made musicians! By Olu Fasan
Senator Oluremi Tinubu, Nigeria’s irrepressible first lady, recently made two controversial interventions on the country’s socio-economic situation. First, she told the jobless to start selling akara, roasted corn or kuli-kuli to eke out a living. Then, she admonished rich young musicians to help the poor. She received a torrent of criticism for the comments. Yet they […]
Kaita and Ango’s losing streak
ALHAJI Lawal Kaita and Professor Ango Abdullahi are two men who can’t hide their born-to-rule mentality. They are Atiku boys politically, even though they are both older than the Turaki of Adamawa.
The PDP, Governors’ Forum and democracy
LAST weekend, the former governor of Lagos state, Bola Tinubu, was given an honorary degree by the Kano State University of Technology in Wudil. The university was established during Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso’s first tenure, between 1999 and 2003.
Who should pay the pilgrim’s passage to paradise?
HAD Nigeria, like Britain, an unwritten constitution, no one would know ours is officially a secular country. Every politician not only wears his or her righteousness like the mark of Cain on the forehead but is also a lay pastor or imam.
Preaching hate in the name of free speech
THE brutal murder of British soldier, Lee Rigby, by two religious terrorists on May 22 is the immediate trigger for this week’s column.
Rebels and govt forces: The case of CAR
THE Ten Year Government of Francis Bozize fell to rebel incursion like a pack of cards. What does that tell us? It tells us that a straw cannot be transformed into steel by reinforcing it with steel, with bayonets.
A world without scruples
By Yetunde Arebi Hi, How far will you go to get out of a situation? The story below is narrated by a young, Public Relations executive named Cynthia who after an affair with a charming, young man went into depression for almost two year. How did it happened? Find out as she shares her story […]
Moses, Mikel … deja vue
The road where the players bus gets to a Carrefour and a player decides to jump the bus and take what he considers is his own way forward.
CBN’S 12% MPR: No light in the tunnel
The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) was lately reported to have decried as ill advised and insensitive, the retention of the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) at 12%, by Central Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC).
Open letter to President Jonathan: Roof is about to cave in on economy.
Your Excellency, Mr.President, it does not matter anymore who wins the 20I5 elections. Nigeria at that time will need a leader who can manage widespread poverty at the Federal level and state governors, unlike the wastrels we now have, running the show. By 2015, Nigeria’s crude oil exports and earnings will be far less than what we realize now.
Nigeria’s rising terrorist profile
ON Saturday, 18th November 2012, I arrived at the JFK International Airport, New York, on my way back to Nigeria after covering the US presidential elections. It was on this day that I underwent the most humiliating security browsing of my person.
