Still on GDP data and realities facing Nigerians, by Adekunle Adekoya
OUR government, especially the one in office now, is fond of reeling out data, particularly data from multilateral institutions and global rating agencies to justify their performance in office. As you may know, government officials have been throwing macro-economic data at us to show that they they have been working in our interest. As if […]
Happy New Year: How much happiness in 2022?
By Adekunle Adekoya Happy New Year! The last issue of this column in Vanguard of Friday 31-12-2021, on used tyres, ended with the first three words that opened the first edition of this column this year. It is deliberate, apart from the fact that these three words have been standard greeting as we see each other for […]
Used Tyres: Punishment for offences we didn’t commit
I have come to the conclusion many times that government and governance here is not for us, the governed, but an enterprise for the benefit of those in government. There is very little compassion for the citizenry by those in government. Government agencies and those who run them mainly concern themselves with pecuniary interests, and work assiduously to make life near-unbearable for the governed.
The stillborn called Electoral Act Amendment
By Adekunle Adekoya In the July 23 issue of this column, the headline was: “Road to 2023 now clear, with poverty as potholes.” At the time, the raging controversy was on the wording of a clause in the Electoral Act Amendments Bill before the National Assembly, which at the time sought to disable the Independent National Electoral […]
