Can Nigeria build new millionaires through Dangote IPO?
By MOSHOOD OSHUNFUREWA Nigeria has a long, painful, and largely unreported history with shares. The promise of ownership has repeatedly been used to separate ordinary citizens from their savings, and the consequences have rarely been visited upon those responsible. Between 2007 and 2009, an estimated N800 billion was funnelled into private placements that promised future […]
Nigeria: The Problem of Memory
By Arinze Oduah Introduction On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, an unarmed 46-year-old African-American died in the hands of police officers, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. This set off a chain of events around the world, including the pulling down of monuments to chattel slavery and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. On May 26, 2020, I fortuitously […]
DELTA 2023: What does future hold for Kenneth Gbagi
As the clock ticks towards 2023 by the moment, the Nigerian political class is not leaving anything to chances as the political undercurrent swells up by the day, in alignments and realignments to capture power especially at the centre and the federating states where there will be a transition from one administration to the other.
Agenda 2050: A new thinking with citizen participation and inclusion
By Ariyo-Dare Atoye IT turned out that it is not the battle of atomic bombs or World War III as projected by some historical pundits. The pre-COVID-19 world you knew has been permanently altered by an unseen invader, a novel virus. Much like what happened in the post-World War II, every serious nation is now […]
Did Magu hit ‘Magun’ (thunderbolt)?
In Yorubaland, there is what is called ‘magun’ (thunderbolt) and a married woman, suspected of infidelity, is usually laced with it by her husband, who probably is no longer able to tolerate the woman’s excesses. ‘Magun’, which also means don’t climb, is of different types, but the commonest comes into effect when a man climbs the woman laced with it and has sexual intercourse with her.
Roadmap for Esanland: Lest we regret
Last year when Senator Daisy Danjuma threw her weight behind Governor Godwin Obaseki at an event in Lagos, the PDP hurled all manner of invectives at the wife of General TY Danjuma. The party criticized her for supporting a failed governor, saying. “The commissioned 5 star specialist hospital is still home to reptiles, Tayo Akpata University of Education an unfulfilled political Greek gift, College of Agriculture Ogierieki, a victim of policy lip-service, the Gelegele sea port project is still a mirage and the industrial park is still at the MOU level. The governor you are endorsing have left 14 constituencies unrepresented in the state house of assembly, to mention a few.”
