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, […]
Gains of electoral reforms
A LARGE number of Nigerians heaved a sigh of relief in the morning of Sunday, August 10, 2014, when the Returning Officer of the just-concluded Osun gubernatorial election, Professor Bamitale Omole, announced that the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Governor Rauf Aregbesola, had won the election with a wide margin.
Adamawa guber: Can Ribadu be trusted?
THE biggest news of the Nigerian politics in the past one week is unarguably the movement of Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, the pioneer Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Assessing options, challenges of implementing Confab report
On Aug. 21, President Goodluck Jonathan received the report of the National Conference with a pledge that his administration would implement its recommendations.
Much ado about Saraki and Kwara
AS usual, the latest brew from Is’haq Modibbo Kawu’s pot of half-truth delivered through his column in the Vanguard newspaper, leaves a trend and trail of garnished falsehood. Moddibo’s case readily reminds one of the pitiable situation of a stammerer, who rather than learn how to talk slowly so he can be understood, decides to gargle and garble at the same time.
Ebola Virus Disease and national unity
HOW can it be said that a deadly Ebola Virus Disease [EVD], imposed on Nigeria by “one mad man” from a foreign country is becoming a factor of unification for Nigerian? Can that be true? Does a thing like that exist? Can anything good come from Ebola Virus Disease? Save your answer or agitation for a while until we meet with someone important somewhere first.
