Has Nigeria’s indigenous industrialisation policy failed?
By Moshood Oshunfurewa This symptom has fully emerged. Nigeria’s indigenous industrialisation policy has failed. This failure is not the product of any single policy misstep but the systematic collapse of a six-decade-old structural architecture. This is a consequence of energy costs that devour manufacturing margins, foreign exchange controls that choke off access to production inputs, […]
2023 presidency: Matters arising
By Amanze Obi THE other day, my friend and colleague, Steve Osuji, displayed unusual anger. He was mad at Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, the Governor of Sokoto State, for declaring interest in the presidency of the country for the year 2023. Steve faulted Tambuwal’s ambition on many grounds. He thinks that commonsense has become a strange […]
Edo 2020: It is APC that has accused INEC, Police, everyone else of planning to rig guber election
By Efe Igbinovia The misleading article, Flying the trite ‘APC’ll rig’ kite, authored by one Sufuyan Ojeifo could have easily been overlooked as one of the many sponsored Public Relations efforts of an Edo All Progressives Congress (APC) campaign that is now starring defeat in the face in the forthcoming September 19 governorship election in […]
Post-COVID-19 reality: Tough choices for Nigerian businesses
By Peter Owolabi NIGERIAN businesses and Nigerians in general are having to deal with the economic realities in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nigeria’s economy pre-COVID was sputtering and barely growing. In 2016, the country slumped into a recession that it was only just recovering from. Early projections in 2020 provided hope that an […]
Lagos and the coming rains
By Tayo Ogunbiyi AT the outset of the year, experts had predicted that Lagos would witness more rains than it has even experienced. Surprisingly, however, it is like the heavens have shut their windows against rains in the past two months. Considering the attendant challenges of rainfall in the metropolis, many residents would be quite […]
Senate by-election: Case for a cerebral candidate
By Kunle Uthman LEGISLATURES in modern states everywhere pass laws, determine the ways of raising and spending public revenues, discuss matters of public importance and play an important role in the process of amending the Constitution. They also serve as checks and balances on the other two organs of government, namely the Executive and Judiciary. […]
