Economy improving for Tinubu, worsening for the people, by Adekunle Adekoya
LAST Tuesday, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu received in audience the leadership of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), led by its President, Most Rev. Matthew Ndagoso. The clerics were on what was described as a courtesy visit. After remarks by the leader of the delegation, the president responded, and I quote, inter alia: “I […]
The subsidy cul-de-sac(2)
By Adekunle Adekoya Where we are now, with regards to subsidy is the end of a narrow cul-de-sac into which an articulated truck was driven and whose sole exit is now blocked by another truck which has broken down. How to get out? While answers to that will have to be provided by the administration that succeeds […]
The subsidy cul-de-sac
By Adekunle Adekoya Procrastination gives you something to look forward to — Joan Konner (1931-2018) One of the raging questions about the Nigerian experience, especially in the social media is: “How did we get here?” Another is: “Who did this to us?” Answers to both questions, which lie in the five Ws and H (Who, What, Where, […]
That N800 levy on Lagos commercial drivers
By Adekunle Adekoya On Friday, 7 January, the headline of this column was Happy New Year: How much happiness in 2022? I tried to pass across the message that 2022 being an electioneering year, our leaders will have less time to manage our affairs as they will devote more time to managing theirs – seeking re-election, […]
Zoning and the 2023 elections
By Adekunle Adekoya When the news broke last Monday that APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu disclosed to Nigerians that he had been in the Presidential Villa, Abuja, to inform President Muhammadu Buhari of his intention to contest for the nation’s top job next year, my mind was at once settled and in turmoil over […]
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 […]
