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, […]
The future is ours
TO the memories of our founding fathers and the visionary leadership of Alhaji Tafawa Balewa, February 17, 1966 remains a landmark date for all of us.
Odebala as a macrocosm
LAST week, all the Local Government Areas chairmen and chairwomen celebrated their first 100days in office, the first of the kind for Delta State under Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan’s eight years on the saddle.
Getting Nigerians in dispora to work
NIGERIANS are found all over the world. We must be one of the greatest migratory people on planet earth. Added to this is our acclaimed intelligence in almost every field of human endeavour; for there is always a Nigerian ranking very high up in one field or the other somewhere in the world. Unfortunately,inspite of this truth, the perception is that we have used our intelligence more on the negative than the positive.
Buhari vs Jonathan: On the road to Czech?
NIGERIA’S body-politick is currently befuddled by a cacophonous preponderance of Boko Haram’s insurgency, Niger Delta militancy, politicians’ s kullduggery, psychotically corrupt leadership, hate speeches, military interlopers, economic bastardisation, INEC’s tergiversation, grandiloquent poverty and Buhariánd Jonathans ventriloquism. Can any nation remain as one united sovereign and indivisible body with these kinds of protean contretemps? NO!
Ambode: An old school perspective
ONE would naturally feel proud to share the same Alma Matar with the All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate for Lagos State, Akinwunmi Akinbode. It is even double in our case because we were not only school mates at the Federal Government College, Warri but also at the University of Lagos, where he was my senior.
