A Forecast Is Not a Verdict: Why The Economist Misreads 2027
By KOLA ALAPINNI The Economist’s “Nigerians Dislike Their President, But May Re-elect Him Anyway” is a confident piece, and a narrow one. It grants the dislike, then treats it as electorally irrelevant. Incumbency, a split opposition, a Muslim Muslim ticket, and a public that expects little will, on this reading, carry President Bola Tinubu to […]
Giving teeth to the Cabotage Law
THE Coastal and Inland Shipping Act 2003, otherwise called the Cabotage Law, was designed to empower Nigerians to not only own vessels but develop capacity in various spheres of shipping, which for years have been dominated by foreign interests.
Of Boko Haram, Ali Sheriff and the pen judges
Everybody wants to comment about the prevailing insecurity in Nigeria, especially the Boko Haram insurgency, but most people are uninformed about the origin, nature, manifestations or even the metamorphosis of a hitherto peaceful ideological sect into a violent insurgency.
Edo 2007: Oshiomhole vindicates Osunbor
ONE is constrained to comment on the weighty admission by the Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole that the late President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, supported his aspiration financially and otherwise pre and post – April 14, 2007.
The West’s Woods-ward walk!
ENOCH Powell argued in his Common Market: Renegotiate or Come Out (1973) that Britain must renegotiate the then European Common Market or pull out. Recently, Britain dared Ghana and Uganda for standing up as humans and defending civilisation against homosexuality and same-sex marriage, the latter coinage only known to this very decadent age since Adam.
Petroleum deregulation: Timely intervention
IT is heart warming that on the matter of deregulation of key sectors of the economy, there are references. A simple case is the telecommunication industry. Today, the country is better for it as every Nigerian now has access to telephony.
