Osun election: Optics and prospects of redirection, by Adekunle Adekoya
THE governorship election of Osun State, which was an off-cycle election, held last week, and the winner is already known. In fact, incumbent governor, Ademola Adeleke of the Accord Party won, polling 511,067 votes to beat his closest rival, Bola Oyebamiji of the APC who polled 444, 815 votes. All that is no longer news. […]
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 […]
