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 […]
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 […]
$176bn Customs Modernization Project: Between Bionica, Bergmans, and TMPL
By Adekunle Adekoya I AM afraid that if action is by unflinchingly patriotic Nigerians, our country might have been unwittingly transformed into the reverse of a rentier state. A rentier state is one which derives all or a substantial portion of its national revenues from rent paid by foreign individuals, concerns or governments, and at […]
The looming transportation crisis in Lagos
By Adekunle Adekoya ONCE again, I have to use this medium to address an issue that I’m sure is of paramount importance to a lot of people, especially those who have reason to come into Lagos for one thing or the other and return to base. Needless to say, those who live and work in […]
