Welfare of Nigerians and politics of fuel subsidy, by Adekunle Adekoya
AGAIN, the matter of fuel subsidy has dominated national discourse in the last few days, with President Bola Tinubu, former vice-president and ADC presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, NDC presidential candidate Mr Peter Obi and a host of others have had not a little to say about the issue. The matter was reignited when Alhaji […]
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, […]
