The Petroleum Industry Bill and the Quest for a New Nigeria
By Obadiah Mailafia LAST week, Thursday July 1, the Senate finally passed the long-awaited Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB. A milestone in the history of our legislative affairs. Too many interests had repeatedly scuttled it over the years. According to the auditing and advisory firm, KPMG, previous attempts in 2009, 2012 and 2018 failed “because of […]
The quest for sustainable growth and development
ECONOMIC growth is the foundation of all material prosperity. In our age, quantitative growth is not enough – it has to be sustainable. By sustainable growth we mean a rate of output that meets the needs of the present society without compromising the ability of future generations to their own needs.
Bala Takaya, the Middle Belt, and the meaning of history
JOHN Bala Takaya, President of the Middle Belt Forum, MBF, went to be with his Maker at dawn of Sunday 25 May. He died on Trinity Sunday, an important date in the Christian Calendar.
Wake up, Nigeria is dying: A reply to my Fulani friends (2)
TODAY concludes the piece I wrote in this Column last week in response to one Abdullah Musa Abdullah who accused me of being a hate-monger. His confused and unlettered attacks, he declared that I had no right to talk of genocide in contemporary because such crimes appertain only to states.
Wake up, Nigeria is dying: A reply to my Fulani friends (1)
ON Friday 11 May, I wrote an article titled, “Genocide, Hegemony and Power in Nigeria”, featuring on the back page of the financial newspaper BusinessDay.
Youth as the trustees of civilisation (2)
A FEW weeks ago, a BBC documentary by Ruona Meyer, titled, “Secrets of Nigeria’s illicit codeine trade revealed”, brought the Nigerian epidemic of drug addiction to the forefront of world attention. It is a national tragedy of grave proportions.
