A day for one of Buhari’s magicians in court, By Adekunle Adekoya
Dr. Betta Edu should not have issues having Hajiya Umar Farouk walk her through how she was able to perform a feat that even Harry Houdini or our own Professor Peller would find difficult; how did she feed children who were in their parents’ houses during a lock-down?
A call for focus on the environment, By Adekunle Adekoya
After the May 29 swearing-in of the President and state governors, those who won elections are now trying to form their governments. In the presidency, some special advisers and assistants have been appointed, while some governors have equally appointed advisers and assistants and secretaries to the state governments. While we await cabinet lists at the […]
Living in post-subsidy Nigeria, By Adekunle Adekoya
We were warned that petrol subsidy would not last forever and would have to go someday. It has now gone. President Bola Tinubu chose to extinguish subsidy in his inaugural address on May 29. As we all came to see, the president had barely left the Eagle Square venue of his inauguration when the petrol […]
Hadi Houdini and Nigeria Air, By Adekunle Adekoya
THE Friday May 19 issue of this column had the headline: Nigeria Air and Buhari’s ministers of magic. Essentially, that edition dwelt on avowals by the immediate past Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, to the effect that the planned national carrier, Nigeria Air
Bursting the scamsidy bubble
By Adekunle Adekoya A few weeks ago, on April 7, I discussed issues around petrol subsidy in a piece titled The Magic of Scamsidy. I took the position that the subsidy policy has been a scam perpetrated by the power elite at the expense of ignorant, non-discerning Nigerians. This is because subsidy was meant to […]
2015-2023: The years of pestilence
By Adekunle Adekoya WHEN the All Progressives Congress, APC, came up to challenge PDP’s hold on power since 1999 in February 2013, not a few Nigerians incubated the hope that something refreshingly different will happen to Nigeria. Formed as a merger of three parties — the Congress for Progressive Change, the All Nigeria Peoples Party, […]
