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, […]
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. […]
Warri ‘gra-gra’ no action
By Sunny Ikhioya THE name Warri, both as a city and a people, is a bundle of contradiction, a paradox of sort. A city with a deep history of commerce and business, but now in decline. A people of boldness and audacity – they conquered coronavirus with ogogoro and other local herbs – that they […]
With leadership, tech support, Nigerian youth can drive beyond Uber
By Okoh Aihe There is something about the Bible that makes it the bestseller of all time. Very profound. With journeys into the past and projections into the future, holding out the mysteries of life as it mocks man to provide understanding. The depth is unsearchable, that is what it says, but that depth in […]
