Economy improving for Tinubu, worsening for the people, by Adekunle Adekoya
LAST Tuesday, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu received in audience the leadership of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), led by its President, Most Rev. Matthew Ndagoso. The clerics were on what was described as a courtesy visit. After remarks by the leader of the delegation, the president responded, and I quote, inter alia: “I […]
The forgotten take-aways from June 12, by Adekunle Adekoya
YESTERDAY was June 12. That date has become something else in the history of our dear country. At the risk of telling you what you what you already know, the presidential election of June 12, 1993 was adjudged by Nigerians and watchers of Nigerian politics worldwide to be the freest, fairest ever held in the […]
10,217 persons killed in 2 yrs: Still playing games with security, by Adekunle Adekoya
THIS week, the newswires were awash with reports that the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Olufemi Oluyede has relocated to Benue State, ostensibly in a show of force following endless killings by herdsmen militias in that state. Without fear of equivocation, one can say that Benue is the most embattled of all the states […]
The Barbarian invasion of Nigeria (2), by Adekunle Adekoya
TODAY’s edition is the second instalment of the conversation with the above headline. I assert again that our country is currently witnessing a barbarian invasion. As a student of strategic intelligence, I construe a barbarian invasion as a siege laid to a people or group of peoples with distinct, thriving cultures in their territory by armed bands […]
The Barbarian invasion of Nigeria, by Adekunle Adekoya
YES, you read that right: Nigeria is currently under invasion by peoples from the Sahel, fleeing the twin effects of climate change and virulent terrorism and banditry. But first, let us put this in context. According to Encyclopaedia Brittanica, Barbarian invasions, or the movements of Germanic peoples began before 200 BCE and lasted until the early Middle […]
Driving the ‘Nigeria First’ policy for our benefit, by Adekunle Adekoya
ONE very laudable policy recently announced by the Tinubu administration is the Nigeria First policy initiative. Though not entirely new, and not original to the Tinubu administration, it is something which, if conscientiously implemented, has the capacity to turn around the Nigerian economy for good within a relatively short period of time. Readers might recall that in […]
