Living in denial with loans and unimplemented budgets, by Adekunle Adekoya
ON October 1, the President made a broadcast to the nation about the state of the Nigerian state. In summary, the president said that “reforms are over, foundation laid for prosperity.” The president’s assertions have never been interrogated, except for sporadic attacks from leading opposition figures about specific items. I want to ask: What was […]
New government universities? No!
By Adekunle Adekoya These are very interesting times in our dear country, and if you like, in the whole world. With the war in Ukraine and galloping prices of fossil fuels, the global economy is being moulded in a way we have not seen before, worsened by the fact that attention has been forcefully diverted from common […]
The death of travel
By Kunle Adekoya THE word, travel, describes an activity. It is a construct, which when it passes through our sensory frontiers, becomes an experience. For those of us who are non-native speakers and users of the English language, travel is also a noun, a transitive verb, and an intransitive verb as well. The commonest type […]
Apongbon Bridge fire: Has governance broken down?
By Adekunle Adekoya WEDNESDAY morning, residents of Lagos, and the rest of the world woke to the news of a fire outbreak under the bridge at Apongbon, on Lagos Island. The Apongbon bridge, actually the landward extension of Eko Bridge flies over the intersection of Broad Street and Apongbon Street, and is a beehive of […]
Crises, when govt fails to honour agreements
By Adekunle Adekoya At the moment, nothing seems to be working in the country. Well over a month ago, what seemed to be an isolated incident has ballooned into a major crisis that is threatening the nation’s economic jugular. Mid-February, a power outage occurred when two units at the Egbin Power plant suffered damage as […]
Defections and special purpose politics
By Adekunle Adekoya There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties. — Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900) In the July 9, 2021 edition of this column, I wrote about political parties being special purpose vehicles — a gathering of strange bedfellows coming […]
