2027: Atiku’s kitchen-sink strategy betrays crude populism, by Olu Fasan
Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), is adopting a kitchen-sink approach to next year’s presidential race. A “kitchen-sink approach” involves throwing everything at a problem regardless of what works or doesn’t. That’s precisely what Atiku is doing by promising to tackle every conceivable vexed issue if he becomes president next […]
Unfair complaint
LAST Monday, Daily Trust, a newspaper that is circulated nationally but regarded as “Northern”, published a report titled “Niger Delta Gets 86 percent of FG Projects”.
Fuel subsidy: The Red herring effect (1)
‘RED HERRING” is a variety of smoked fish (“kipper”) that is eaten for breakfast or as a snack, in Britain and parts of the United States. But in public discourse, the term carries negative connotations. It refers to a diversionary argument or issue that distracts attention from matters of much greater substance.
Justice Oniyangi and the ID scam case
WHEN Justice MudasiruOniyangi (who presides over an Abuja Federal High Court) adjourned the case sine die, little did he know that eyes were watching.
Of prophecies, football and the Nigerian condition
LIKE most Nigerian followers of the beautiful game, I was very sad and angry at the way our national team exited from qualification for the 2012 African Cup of Nations.
This is the beginning, this is the end
WE may choose to ignore history but history, in its crushing implacability, will never ignore us. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was perhaps one person who saw tomorrow on behalf of Nigeria.
‘Occupy wall street’: Cometh the Western Spring?
WHILE writing on the UK riots last August, I had, here, traced some of the impulses that gave rise to the riots to certain economic and social inequities within the British society. I did not stop at that. I had extended my reading of the developments in the British society with regard to the riots to what I saw as related developments in other parts of Europe and America.
Touched by the loss of Jobs
THE world was thrown into mourning last week Wednesday October 5, 2011 by the death of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Inc at the youthful age of 56. Even at that youthful age, it seemed as if Jobs had always been with us since the beginning of time. His contributions at that age gave him the timelessness that wealth or political power does not confer on ordinary mortals.
Why govts can’t create jobs
It is true that many countries do not have the money to pay for the policies to promote employment and growth”.
New York Times September 2011.
The wrong way to defend the naira
The Central Bank of Nigeria has been unusually silent on the widening gap between the official exchange and the Bureau de Change (BDC) rates of the naira to the dollar.
Queuing behind Enyimba, Sunshine
If you expect me to write today about the Abuja dis grace last Saturday, then permit me to disappoint you. First of all, at the time that match was going on, I was on CAF duty in far away Tunisia.
