2019 November

It will be really sad if indeed the problems of Tony Allen Onyema is political as is being bandied in some quarters and also perhaps being confirmed by people like Presidential Spokesman, Lauretta Onochie, who has made plain her disdain for the businessman. We all know that when an action has systemic importance to a...

we borrow to send our children to school we borrow to fix our roads we borrow to provide infrastructure we borrow to pay salaries we borrow to pay allowances to senators then we borrow to buy them luxury cars we borrow to put our presidential airfleet afloat and to pay landing charges when it parks...

News came out the other that the Federal Government has granted approval to Ondo and Ekiti Governors to fix Akure-Ikere Ekiti Road and to toll the road. If this is done that road will be the only tolled interstate road in Nigeria and the extremely poor people who live in Akure, Igoba. Iju, Ita Ogbolu,...

Yes. Be alarmed. That is the whole idea. I have many cogent reasons for thinking this way but the most prominent is that there is no elite consensus to make the painful sacrifices that will lunge project Nigeria forward. Every group and every individual is holding on to their own advantages and in fact looking...

(my comment – and some people will call themselves ‘economic experts’ in this economic wasteland of ours!) Paul Krugman and other mainstream trade experts are now admitting that they were wrong about globalization: It hurt American workers far more than they thought it would. Did America’s free market economists help put a protectionist demagogue in...