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, […]
Muhammadu Buhari can’t be responsible for CAMA 2020
By Rotimi Fasan, Facts first: Whatever else he could be blamed for, President Muhammadu Buhari can’t be held responsible for the enactment of the Company and Allied Matters Act, CAMA, 2020. To do otherwise would amount to stretching the facts in perverse directions, evident as they are. But first to the controversy that has arisen […]
Osinbajo and the heat of mudslingers
By Mustapha Bello DID you hear the story of the cleric who attended a meeting in a small room filled with smokers puffing on their cigarettes? Vice President Yemi Osinbajo relived that experience during a church service in Lagos on February 10, 2019. The pastor and law professor said the incident occurred between 1999 and […]
Fani-Kayode and Renewed Threat to Press Freedom
By Victor Ikem History, they say, is a good teacher to those who are willing to learn, and equally a bad teacher to those who would seek to repeat it, especially the dire aspects. The recent outburst and verbal abuse of a Daily Trust journalist, Eyo Charles, by a former minister and now opposition leader, […]
Edo 2020: In Benin, Oshiomhole commands magic every time
But this time around, it may not be so. And this is because of a third force in the person of the former national chairman of the APC and former governor of the state, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.
On the el-Rufai invitation
By Israel Mbaebie An invite originally extended to the Governor of Kaduna State Mallam Nasir EL Rufai was rescinded/withdrawn after an uproar by a large section of Lawyers. Now, a section of lawyers mainly of Northern Muslim extraction are kicking against the said withdrawal. The question should be, going by his antecedents, is El Rufai […]
