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 […]
As politicians in power lie and cheat, by Adekunle Adekoya
We are still where we were with electricity, more than 200 million of us “managing” 4,000 MegaWatts or thereabouts. Lying to the people is now the highest point of statecraft in Nigeria.
Governance by palliatives is failure of governance, by Adekunle Adekoya
“A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced.” — Confucius (551– 479) BCE THE quote above in several respects refers to the situation in which we have found ourselves. On May 29, 2023, President Bola Tinubu spoke evil words into our economy by unthinkingly announcing the withdrawal of […]
Disturbing optics from the protests, by Adekunle Adekoya
SO, the protests began last Thursday, August 1, and according to the organisers, will last till August 10. That means we can still expect protests tomorrow, even though there has been significant palls in the tempo of the protests in many parts of the country. In the days preceding take-off of the protests, government machinery went into […]
Now that the protests have begun, by Adekunle Adekoya
“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” — Helen Keller (1880-1968) AS I write this, we were in the evening of the first day of protests tagged #EndBadGovernance, organised by several civil society organisations in reaction to the worsening economic situation in the country. The protests were to last from August […]
On Dangote Refinery, planned protests, others, by Adekunle Adekoya
“An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes.” — Sun Tzu (544-496 BC) Growing up, and until just less than 10 years ago, there was no time it ever occurred to me that things could go so deeply down south in our dear country, Nigeria, as they are now. […]
