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 […]
I was in Calabar
Saturday afforded me the first opportunity of watching live, Keshi’s “Work –in-progress” Eagles, so off I went to calabar.
Anambra, el Rufai and ‘poverty’
THERE has been a furore on the various social networks over an article credited to Mallam Nasir el Rufai, in which he allegedly said Anambra State was “poor”. Many from that state, their friends, relations and well wishers were incensed with the very notion of ascribing poverty to Anambra State.
Fdi: Asaba Airport as case study – 4
That was the advice of thousands of parents to their sons at the beginning of the founding fathers of the “expatriates” who conquered the vast country which we now know as the United States of America. Then, as now, there were restraining hands, urging people not to go and exploit the opportunities which the new frontiers presented.
A rebuffed helping hand from the diaspora
The impact of the IMF-inspired Structural Adjustment Programme during the Babangida regime fundamentally destabilized our economy, and ultimately altered the mobility of some of our brightest intellects in favour of a migratory urge to more clement pastures abroad.
Jesus is a man
John warns Christians: “Many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.” (2 John 7). This allegation is applicable to Paul in the bible.
