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 […]
Presidential candidates and Chatham House runs
By Adekunle Adekoya MR Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party is the latest aspirant for our nation’s highest office to go to Chatham House, England, to give a talk. He had been preceded by the APC candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in the Chatham House run. In 2015, incumbent president, Muhammadu Buhari was also […]
Living with the cascade effect of kidnapping
By Adekunle Adekoya WE should be very worried at the unending spate of kidnappings, mostly for ransom. When it started, we treated it, as usual, with kid gloves, instead of dealing with the malaise with the seriousness it deserved and still deserves. First, militants of the Niger Delta started by kidnapping foreigners working on oil […]
NDDC: The Senate and the President’s illegal runs
By Adekunle Adekoya FOR the umpteenth time, the Federal Government, currently led by President Muhammadu Buhari has committed yet another infraction against the law. Last Wednesday, the President caused the inauguration of the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. No problem with that, inaugurations of such nature are routine government events. What is […]
Carnage on our roads: Whither Police, FRSC, VIS, others?
By Adekunle Adekoya THURSDAY December 22, 2022 was a black day in Lagos. So also were May 11, 2022; September 19, 2021; November 10, 2021; and August 21, 2020, to mention a few that could be easily recalled. What blackened these days were the tragedies that occurred — containers falling off trucks onto other vehicles, […]
Lagos-Ibadan Expressway: Image of the Nigerian in the mirror
By Adekunle Adekoya THREE years ago, on December 20, 2019, to be exact, Dr. Olorunnimbe Mamora, Minister of State for Health, had reason to leave Lagos on January 20, 2019, to deliver a lecture at an event in Abeokuta. According to him, he got trapped in a traffic jam on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, and ended […]
Another look at poverty in Nigeria
By Adekunle Adekoya When we talk of poverty, we think of it as the inability of a person, group of persons, or a social collective to meet basic needs like food, clothing, and shelter. The Encyclopaedia Brittanica describes poverty as “the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or […]
Attack on governors by the President and his ministers
By Adekunle Adekoya I don’t know whether you see it from my perspective, but it seems to me that an unusual kind of war is going on. I am speaking of the attacks on state governors by the federal executive led by President Muhammadu Buhari. First, it was the Minister of State for Budget & […]
Education and local governments: Cheers and jeers for Buhari
By Adekunle Adekoya ON Wednesday and yesterday, President Muhammadu Buhari pleasantly surprised me. On Wednesday, the Federal Executive Council meeting over which he presided approved mother tongue instruction in the first six years of schooling. Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu told State House Correspondents at the end of the meeting that: “A memo on national […]
Wrong position on local government autonomy
By Adekunle Adekoya I WAS thrown off my feet earlier in the week when a former Commissioner for Justice and Attorney-General in Oyo State, Mutalubi Adebayo, faulted the clamour for local government autonomy by many sections of the Nigerian polity, adding that it simply shows that the people do not understand the concept of federalism. Adebayo […]
Again, the national poverty conundrum
By Adekunle Adekoya YESTERDAY, the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, released the result of a survey which it conducted, with the result that no less than 63 percent of Nigerians are poor as at 2022. Using a population figure of 200 million, that is about 126 million of our fellow compatriots statistically determined to be […]
