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 […]
Palliatives of zero effect, By Adekunle Adekoya
THIS column had gone to bed last Thursday before the National Economic Council, NEC, a statutory organ of the Federal Government, released palliatives to cushion the effects of subsidy removal. When I saw the measures, which by now, all fellow Nigerians must have heard, a hundred and one emotions coursed through me all at once, […]
Whither Nigeria? By Adekunle Adekoya
“When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing – When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favours – when you see that men get richer by graft and pull than by work, and your laws don’t […]
‘Apollo’ governance, By Adekunle Adekoya
I was unable to write this column last week owing to an attack of conjunctivitis, which left my eyes swollen, reddened and oozing thick, mucoid discharge. It also gave me fever, and I was unable to read. It was so bad that I couldn’t even read text messages on my phones. People who saw me […]
Smouldering embers of subsidy removal, By Adekunle Adekoya
“No politician can sit on an issue if you make it hot enough.” — Saul Alinsky(1909-1972 WELL, the subsidy removal issue is clearly a very hot one for all Nigerians, and if I may add, irrespective of status. This is because costs have not just risen, they have doubled, tripled, and quadrupled in a space […]
Optics and options on subsidy and palliatives, By Adekunle Adekoya
THERE is no gainsaying the fact that Nigerians are in for a very hard grind, occasioned by the precipitous removal of subsidy on petrol by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in his inaugural speech on May 29. The effects on life and living have been direct and instantaneous, sending prices of just about everything through the […]
