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, […]
Understanding the military engagement of Shi’ite’ protesters
Saturday November 27, 2018. Abuja was boiling at the outskirts. No one felt safe. Deadly flames from burnt tyres cast shadows of danger on street sides. Thick, dark smoke oozing from ashes of burn-fires blackened the skies.
Reps report of contradictions
The House of Representatives last Thursday adopted at plenary, a report of its Committee on Emergency and Preparedness Response, chaired by Hon. Ali Isa from Gombe State.
IMN: Before another descent into darkness
Reading the Punch Newspaper editorial, titled “Stopping Army-Shiites’ bloody clashes” gives one the impression that all Nigerians will act rationally and that the appeal in the piece would be taken to heart by all. Such desire is prompted by the knowledge that Nigerians behave alike; we have a tendency to fidget until the fire gets out of hand and singe us before we resort to lamenting “had I know”. The proper thing is not to prevaricate but to take decisive stand for the overall good at all time. This is the time to stop the Army-Shiites clashes before a successor to Boko Haram terrorist group emerges.
The bearer of the trident of victory
Nature is undoubtedly known to have its periodic ways of bringing up rare and unusually gifted individuals for the liberation of their people from economic and political oppression.
The failure of leadership
Though Akwa Ibom State was created over two decades ago, it barely came to national and international consciousness under former Governor Godswill Akpabio.
