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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, […]
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Utomi: Walking the talk

THE D-day at Ugbokun, Monday 29th , August, 2016 was the ground-breaking ceremony of Prof. Pat Utomi’s ‘Integrated Produce City’ at Ugbokun Community in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State.It is a comprehensive agricultural empire from cultivation of a diversity of crops, processing, storage, and marketing to the nation and export to the world at large. The farmers’ dream city, a real trail blazer, has opportunities and potentials for generating jobs, food and forex in abundance.

Herdsmen attacks: State or National issue?

THE big question begging for answer in the public domain since the precarious incident of the herdsmen attacks on communities and innocent citizens of the country is whether the heinous acts should be categorised as a state or national issue.

62 Candles for Mimiko

Governor Olusegun Otaibayomi Mimiko is 62 years old tomorrow, October 3. Language deconstructionists will agree with our matching of Mimiko’s names (Olusegun Otaibayomi or “ God given victory to shame ill will”) with his persona, struggles and achievements.

Is Nigeria’s external debt of investment grade?

As Nigeria reforms, restructures and strategizes towards pulling back the economy unto a path of inclusive and sustainable growth, it is useful to pay detailed attention to the sectors and subsectors.   This is because while summary pictures succeed in showing the prevailing conditions, the secrets to the various pieces of the solution lie in the […]

Shimon Peres: A great son of Israel

One of the greatest souls that ever bestrode the earth, a champion and founding father of the Jewish State of Israel, a former freedom fighter, a former soldier, an internationally-acclaimed statesman, a Nobel Laureate, a former Minister, a former Member of the Israeli Parliament for 50 years, a three-time Prime Minister of Israel, a President of the Jewish state, a diplomat, a peacemaker, an institution in the politics of Israel and the Middle East and the most experienced leader and politician that the State of Israel was ever blessed with, President Shimon Peres, has passed on at the ripe old age of 93.

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