Nigeria’s digital economy has outgrown question of who’s connected
By Oluwole Asalu Nigeria’s digital transformation story has, for a decade, been told through one measure: how many people are online. That number has grown fast, and it is worth acknowledging. Information and communication technology now accounts for a rising share of the country’s GDP, expanding faster than almost any other sector of the economy. […]
Fuel subsidy: Why reason must prevail
AS a Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Labour and Productivity, one of the things I found particularly striking was the determination—and obvious sincerity—of organised labour to challenge unpopular government policies. After all they also speak for the poor, powerless and voiceless majority of Nigerians.
…Because we are involved in Edo
NEW born democratic administrations take time to settle down; and to stabilize such a system depends quite heavily on the invisible restraints of civility, convention and mutual respect. This process depends on a leadership with high standards, which the present Edo State Comrade Adams Oshiomhole-led administration lacks.
The Oshiomhole phenomenon (2)
IN the area of governance, the Comrade Governor has raised the bar in all its ramifications. Through creative governance and resourcefulness he has taken the Internally Generated Revenue, IGR, of the state to an all time high. From its previous level of N250 million per month to a hefty N1.3 billion as at August 2011.
Homosexuals or less than Homo sapiens!
AN Omniscient Creator never intended it so. Nothing can be more unnatural. Nothing can be more irksome to nature. Homo sapiens know it is bestial. And only demons could sponsor it; only their apparent viceroys among men (like the David Camerons of this depraved world) could sell it; and only persons who devils have first married themselves to could buy and consume it.
ABSU rape: The mourning after
IT is probably only in Nigeria that five young men would brutally rape a woman, record the vile act on video, circulate it on the internet, and yet go scot free.
