More government, less service, more hunger, by Adekunle Adekoya
JUST as I was preparing to write this column, news filtered in that President Bola Tinubu has assented to the Nigerian Ports Economic Regulatory Agency (NPERA) Bill, 2026, paving the way for the establishment of a dedicated economic regulator for Nigeria’s port sector. The news was sourced from a post on the Facebook page of […]
Unspoken ramifications of the varsity approved for Ogoniland, by Adekunle Adekoya
LAST week, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu signed into law a bill establishing the Federal University of Environmental Technology in Ogoni, Rivers State. Announcement of the university’s establishment came after a delegation of Ogoni Leaders and other Rivers State personages paid a visit to the seat of power in Abuja. That was on January 21, and it was […]
The lost battle against telecoms tariff hike, by Adekunle Adekoya
THE Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC during the week told Nigerians of its intention to hold protests against approval by the Federal Government of 50 per cent increase in the tariffs charged by telcos in the country. It also added that its officials and state councils have been directed to mobilize allies and workers to give fillip to […]
Disrespecting Nigerians with endless price hikes, by Adekunle Adekoya
“You know I am not very happy with Nigeria. I have made that very clear on many occasions. Yes, Nigeria stood by us more than any nation, but you let yourselves down, and Africa and the black race very badly. Your leaders have no respect for their people. They believe that their personal interests are […]
On Okonjo-Iweala’s call for grid decentralisation, by Adekunle Adekoya
I was elated earlier in the week, when former Minister of Finance and Co-ordinating Minister of the Economy, who is currently the Director-General of the World Trade Organization, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala lent her weighty voice to the call for decentralisation of electricity transmission in our country. Of course, Okonjo-Iweala spoke in context, as she was addressing her […]
Hunger and FG’s food import waiver initiative, by Adekunle Adekoya
IT is no longer news that Nigerians are going through the worst cost of living crisis in the history of the country, the news Nigerians are looking forward to read about or hear is that prices of foodstuffs are coming down. But that is beginning to look like a far-fetched hope as there seems to […]
