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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 […]
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Old wine in new skin?

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari is the second returnee president of Nigeria. The first man to experience this uncommon opportunity was former President Olusegun Obasanjo. He came in with two major mindsets, which helped in no small measure in rendering his second coming as a great waste.

Buhari vs a clueless MPC?

By Henry Boyo More Nigerians will probably consider widespread insecurity, unstable power supply and our faltering economy as the three most critical challenges for which President Muhamadu Buhari would have to urgently find sustainable solutions. Nonetheless, some critics may trace the root of insecurity to increasing desperation from unemployment and ‘forced’ idleness on a rising […]

A nation’s collapse and revival

By Owei Lakemfa LAST week was one of despair and hope. Collapse and revival. It was a week of exit, and an entry in which President Muhammadu Buhari gave a loaded inaugural speech which like a mini-skirt was revealing, but gave nothing away. Will he probe the past? He seems to say no, with his […]

How Federal Government robbed the states

Somebody should hang for this if it occurred in China or Yew’ Singapore. But, since this is Nigeria, somebody should at least change their boutique designer outfits for “prison designer collections”. The report revealed as follows: “The Federal Government withdrew the sum of N395bn in 2013 to fund subsidy on petroleum products, the Fiscal Responsibility Commission has said.

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