With 1,316 MDAs, PFIPC was waiting to happen, by Adekunle Adekoya
ONE day, one trouble best describes our experience as a nation of peoples in our country called Nigeria. By the way, One Day One Trouble is a popular Nigerian Nollywood comedy-drama movie on the life a man trying to survive doing various jobs while dealing with a cantankerous wife, until a rich woman enters his life and […]
Must we have this census now?
By Adekunle Adekoya IT is no longer news that the Federal Government has activated plans to conduct a national population and housing census next month. The last time we had a census was March 2006. There is nothing bad in having a census; indeed, a lot of benefits will accrue if we really know how […]
$800 million palliatives or pallootives?
By Adekunle Adekoya LAST week, I used journalistic license to introduce a new word, SCAMSIDY, by simply joining two words — scam and subsidy. I continue using that license today to bring you another word: pallootives. Joining the words, palliative and looting wasn’t as easy as joining scam and subsidy, but nevertheless, we are here […]
The magic of scamsidy
By Adekunle Adekoya THE word, scam, is generally understood here, what with an army of people, mostly youths, whose business is scamming fellow citizens. As Nigerians, we all have heard and read about the word, subsidy, too many times. It is a regularly recurring word when petroleum products and their supply is being discussed. With […]
Before babies begin to emigrate
By Adekunle Adekoya THERE must be a problem in the land, a very big one. I am not talking about the usual that we have lived with for decades — lack of potable water, epileptic power supply, parlous healthcare system and all that. I am talking about a feeling of disenchantment, perhaps hopelessness, especially among […]
A few good things from Buhari as parting gift
By Adekunle Adekoya THE inspiration for today’s column came from a Bible (KJV) passage, the book of John, Chapter 1, verses 45- 46. Here goes: Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, We have found the One Moses wrote about in the Law, the One the prophets foretold—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. And […]
