Atiku is right, subsidy removal needs revisiting – 2
By Dele Sobowale Some called it lunacy; others were more polite in their condemnation of the idea of government reversing itself. Few did the rational thing when confronted with a proposal on a vital public interest. Most of Atiku’s traducers were political opponents; who were afraid that the idea might just be popular and could […]
National self-deception on agriculture
For good measure, the expert would remind everybody that before the Age of Oil exploded on Nigeria in 1973, the country was a large exporter of several products cocoa, rubber, cotton, palm oil, groundnuts, coal, hides and skins, tin, rubber etc; and when the three Regional Marketing Boards East, North and West had offices in London to handle the export of products from their own particular region.
Skye Bank as a metaphor for banking in Nigeria
LAST month, when the Central Bank of Nigeria took out advertisements in several national newspapers to disclaim the “rumour” that Skye Bank was not distressed, an article appeared on this page titled WHY CBN AND LAGOS STATE MIGHT FAIL IN THEIR EFFORT TO SAVE SKYE BANK.
Every recession creates jobs; not those governments want
“I assure you we are going to get out of our economic problems..we are going to make Nigeria great again…Our size, our resources will not be for nothing”. President Buhari, during campaign at Edo State on behalf of Obaseki, candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Recession hits education sector
A sudden earthquake is about to hit the whole of Nigeria this month; not the sort of physical tremor which devastates buildings, breaks up bridges and brings down power lines – while destroying lives. Ours will be a social upheaval never experienced in this country for as long as the oldest of us can remember.
Price of bread is now N300
Announcement on shop window at Odunlami Street, Lagos Island. Odunlami Street, for those not familiar with Lagos Island, is famous for the shops selling coffins and arranging funerals. The bread shop is stuck between two of those shops. So its announcement concerning the increase of bread price was made with all the finality of a death sentence pronounced by a hanging judge. Bread, as the saying goes, is the staff of life. No food is more universally consumed than bread; the second is rice.
