Sobowale On Business

FG: Budgeting or barefaced robbery?

FG: Budgeting or barefaced robbery?

By Dele Sobowale FG budgets N1tn for empowerment, SUVs amid rising borrowing pressure – Report, July 27, 2026 Veterans monitoring the formulation and execution of annual budgets can honestly admit one truth. Military regimes were more disciplined. Every annual budget ended on midnight December 31 of the year. Funds not spent by that time were returned to […]
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I totally support CBN action on FBN

I totally support CBN action on FBN

Sometimes, there is divine intervention in what a regular columnist publishes. I had prepared another article which more or less told Nigerians to be prepared to eat grass as millions of farmers have now abandoned their farms. My Personal Assistant, PA, was asked to send it to the newspapers and online publications. 

Agriculture,manufacturing will determine 2021

Agriculture,manufacturing will determine 2021

Swift did not say what mankind should do when confronted with whoever could make one ear of corn or one blade of grass grow where two once grew. But, that is the predicament in which Nigerians find themselves in 2021. Under President Buhari, the current year might be the first year in the history of Nigeria when millions of farmers will desert their farms. Consequently, not one ear of corn will grow where two formerly did; none might grow.

I went below poverty line in 2020

I went below poverty line in 2020

God knows I want Buhari to remain President until 2023 because, unsettling as that might be for some people, it is the best of all options before us. It is difficult to live with a leader who has lost the followers. That is why some talk of failed nation. We have not failed totally and there is still hope.

Essential commodities are back

Essential commodities are back

By Dele Sobowale “History does not repeat itself; man does.” — Prof Barbara Tuchmann, Harvard University, USA. One man, who is currently repeating himself, to the sorrow of Fellow Nigerians, is President Mohammadu Buhari. History has already recorded that as Military Head of State from 1984 to August 1985, he led Nigeria to the first […]