Self-help on insecurity, the Ohuhu, Abia way as solution, by Adekunle Adekoya
LAST week, I asked fellow Nigerians, readers of this column what else we can do about insecurity that we haven’t done. It was a rhetorical question. Truth is there’re lots we can do that we haven’t done. Are we no longer Nigerians? The most resilient group of peoples in the world? Are we not the ones that […]
N330 billion: On the march again with cash transfers, by Adekunle Adekoya
THE media was awash with reports earlier in the week that the Federal Government has paid out the sum of N330 billion in cash transfers to poor and vulnerable households in the country through the National Social Safety-net Coordinating Office. This development was made known to Nigerians by no less a person than the chief manager of […]
Again, the intractable electricity conundrum, by Adekunle Adekoya
MIDWEEK, one commodity that we need badly in this country, but which is perpetually in short supply forced its way into our consciousness again, as it did, 12 times last year. It is electricity, whose transmission is effected through what we all now know as the National Grid. The grid very often, behaves like what […]
New slavery after renewed scramble, by Adekunle Adekoya
LAST week, the issue at discourse here was headlined African leaders and the renewed scramble for Africa. While our leaders seem to be our problem, it must also be pointed out that a people deserve the kind of leaders they get. The way things are going, I fear that by the end of this century, the African, […]
African leaders and the renewed scramble for Africa, by Adekunle Adekoya
MANY readers might have read or heard about the initial scramble for Africa, as recorded by historians. It was a movement that culminated in a major political and economic exertion by the major and minor powers, largely pof European origin. The end result was colonisation. In a bid to continue to sustain the economic wealth of their […]
Unseen ramifications of the KWAM-1, Emmanson flight sagas, by Adekunle Adekoya
YOU know it all. I mean, all about the airport incident involving Alhaji Wasiu Ayinde Anifowose, the Fuji musician better know by his stage moniker, KWAM-1. You have all the information available from the mainstream media — your favourite newspapers, television, and radio stations. Then you got more salacious details from what we all now know as […]
