Still on GDP data and realities facing Nigerians, by Adekunle Adekoya
OUR government, especially the one in office now, is fond of reeling out data, particularly data from multilateral institutions and global rating agencies to justify their performance in office. As you may know, government officials have been throwing macro-economic data at us to show that they they have been working in our interest. As if […]
Our under-policed, insecure living space, by Adekunle Adekoya
PENULTIMATE Wednesday, the Lagos State Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, on Wednesday, said the state government he works for has discovered dwellings under the Dolphin Estate Bridge, Ikoyi, where tenants pay N250,000 annual rent. According to the commissioner, the under-bridge dwellings, which he called apartments in his post on the matter on […]
Petrol scarcity: Again, the state fails the people, by Adekunle Adekoya
WHEN queues started growing at petrol stations some two weeks ago, one initially thought it was because of the nature of the market. Since subsidy removal was announced last May 29, the cheapest price at which petrol could be bought was N568, at NNPC-owned filling stations. Other marketers sold above that, and in the Lagos area, often […]
Our intractable electricity conundrum, by Adekunle Adekoya
AS a people, we ought to be ashamed of ourselves when it comes to electricity. Since 1972 when the Electricity Corporation of Nigeria, ECN, was merged with the Niger Dams Authority to create the National Electric Power Authority, NEPA, millions of Nigerians have been born and have died with their dreams of living in a country with […]
How Tinubu’s fuel energy policy is deepening poverty, by Adekunle Adekoya
IT is no longer news that electricity tariff has been hiked, ostensibly for users in what many now know as Band A areas, though in reality the tariff was hiked across all bands. I can support this assertion with readings from the bill sent to me by Ikeja DISCO, or IKEDC. I live in a part of […]
Electricity tariff hike as maltreatment of Nigerians, by Adekunle Adekoya
The issue at stake here is that the President Bola Tinubu-led APC government is more anxious to pander to the dictates of the World Bank and IMF, rather than do what is needed to make life easier for Nigerians.
Frequent national grid collapse: Time we took another hard look, by Adekunle Adekoya
SOMETIME in 1989, we experienced a power surge at our home in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State. The voltage was so high and it came so suddenly that it caught all of us in the neighbourhood unawares. Light bulbs were going off like Yuletide firecrackers, what we called bangers. Someone in our house had the good sense to […]
Security 101: We fail serially, by Adekunle Adekoya
IT is no longer news that 17 soldiers, including a lieutenant-colonel, two majors, one captain and other ranks were ambushed by a gang of militants in Okuama village in Delta State. In fact, the slain soldiers were buried with full military honours at a military cemetery in Abuja on Wednesday. While the nation was grappling with that, […]
Odi, Zaki-Biam and now, Okuama, by Adekunle Adekoya
INITIALLY, it sounded unbelievable, just as it was when Odi happened, and later, Zaki-Biam. When the news hit the airwaves that 17 soldiers, including a lieutenat-colonel, two majors, one captain and other ranks were ambushed and killed in the riverine community of Okuama in Delta State, one could only feel benumbed with one question popping […]
When famine meets fasting, by Adekunle Adekoya
THIS year, both the Christian fasting period, called Lent, which lasts 40 days, and the Moslem month of Ramadan, which lasts 30 days are interlapping. One noticeable feature of the onset of Ramadan here this year, is that the usual fanfare that heralds the month was subdued, to say the least. As Ramadan approaches, people […]
Roads not taken on fuel and electricity, by Adekunle Adekoya
TODAY, I wish to salute my fellow compatriots, hapless, ordinary Nigerians who are somehow still finding ways to remain aboard as the nation’s economic ship flounders in stormy waters occasioned by just two single events — removal of subsidy on petrol, and flotation of the national currency, the Naira. As prices of basic goods and […]
