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 […]
Self-inflicted agonies from flooding, by Adekunle Adekoya
THE downpour of last Wednesday, which left many parts of the country flooded, and the attendant tragedies, is still talk of the town. It is an annual ritual from which we have learnt nothing, and forgotten nothing. The octopoidal Federal Government, whose officials these days, talk more about everything but do little about anything said 21 local […]
Can President Tinubu emulate Kenya’s Ruto? By Adekunle Adekoya
EARLIER in the week, there were reports of massive protests in Kenya, an East African country. The protests were actually not new, having begun in 2023, in reaction to bids by the government of Kenya to raise taxes. According to the 24-hour English news channel, Al Jazeera, the protests signify a major shift in Kenya, where, previously, […]
Cholera outbreak as indicator of deeper issues, by Adekunle Adekoya
WHEN we move forward by a mile, it seems we always do something that will make us take backward steps for 10 miles. And so, it was alarming and distressing to read reports of cholera outbreak in our country again, especially in Lagos, our most sophisticated showpiece of urbanisation. Many have died, and more are hospitalised […]
As governors say they can’t pay N60k minimum wage, by Adekunle Adekoya
LAST weekend, their imperial excellencies, the state governors, finally spoke on the minimum wage, an issue that appears to be a huge threat to industrial harmony in the country in the foreseeable future. The Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, said that the N60,000 minimum wage proposal is not sustainable and cannot fly, saying that if they try it, […]
Government’s lack of seriousness on minimum wage negotiations, by Adekunle Adekoya
ORGANISED Labour, comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trades Unions Congress, TUC, and their affiliates made good their threat to go on strike by end of May if the Federal Government failed to conclude negotiations on a new minimum wage. The Minimum Wage Act, signed into law by former president, Muhammadu Buhari, expired in April. […]
