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 inside story of petroleum subsidy saga
No doubt elements of subsidy exist in the pricing of petrol and kerosene sold in Nigeria. But before the federal government throws all of us into an unprecedented confusion by an unplanned removal of this subsidy we must ask questions because once the nation starts to burn you never know.
Why Edo PDP must not fail again
MANY have continued to wonder what happened to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Edo State in 2007 that led to its loss of the governorship seat to the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, at the Appeal Court.
Osunbor’s healthcare revolution (2)
Other areas of advancement in healthcare delivery recorded within the period under review included: *Participation of 300 children in the study on the inclusion of zinc in the household management of childhood diarrhoea in Nigeria.
Osunbor’s healthcare revolution
IT has become the established ritual that most successor governments in Africa tend to rubbish or totally obliterate the strides, contributions and achievements of their predecessors through jaundiced commentaries or outright selective amnesia – all in the name of politics.
From chicanery to deceptive mantra
POLITICAL developments and governance in Edo State since 1999 have clearly shown how unfortunate the state, popularly referred to as the “Heartbeat of the Nation”, has been without sincere and committed governors to direct its affairs and lead it to the proverbial Promised Land.
