FG alleviating poverty with propaganda
By Dele Sobowale “Economic policies should be assessed based on their impact on the welfare of citizens. Any economic policy that does not improve on the welfare of the people is inherently ineffective.” Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II, July 16, 2026. Tinubunomics, based on HRH Sanusi’s measure of economic policy effectiveness, has, so far, been […]
Nigeria’s Economic Bleak House – 2
Nigeria’s Economic Bleak House – 2
Nigeria’s Economic Bleak House – 1
Nigeria’s Economic Bleak House – 1
As we inch closer to economic calamity
As we inch closer to economic calamity
CONCESSION: Let Nigerians manage our airports
CONCESSION: Let Nigerians manage our airports
Every Christian must read this
By Dele Sobowale “A presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has charged Supreme Council for Sharia in the country to create a department of political affairs to create political awareness among the faithful towards producing a Muslim President in 2023” – News Report, March 20, 2022. The address, delivered on […]
How governors underdevelop their states
How governors underdevelop their states
The sad truth about power sector under Buhari
“Generation plummets to 1,393MW”. The report went on to state that “Checks by VANGUARD showed that, as at 5pm yesterday, national grid supply was just 1,393 megawatts with only nine plants generating to the grid.” This is happening almost seven years after Buhari pronounced 4,000MW “unacceptable”.
Nigeria is losing future competitive advantage
By Dele Sobowale “Nigeria drops to 14 as Egypt tops Africa’s investment destinations” News Report, December 5, 2021. Very few variables determine national economic competitive advantage. One of them is Foreign Direct Investment, FDI. In every continent, but Africa, the country with the largest population and one of the largest Gross Domestic Product, GDP, invariably […]
Tear up the 2022 Budget, start praying
By Dele Sobowale “As a people normally gets the government it deserves, so a society normally receives the punishment it asks for.” — Robert Audrey, in Social Contract All at once, we seem to be suffering from a plague of sorts in Nigeria. One is destroying our cars and pockets with adulterated fuel. The other, […]
Subsidy removal: Generations of Nigerians will suffer
By Dele Sobowale “Every country has the government it deserves.” Joseph De Maistre, 1753-1821, VANGUARD BOOK OF QUOTATIONS, p 80. And every country suffers the consequences of its choice of government leaders. I was half-surprised about the decision to postpone subsidy removal for 18 months, by a government which has only sixteen more months to go. Cowardice […]
