In the past week – and perhaps still ongoing in some quarters – we have seen the descent of South Africa into another orgy of mindless and shameless looting. Most, if not all the looters I have seen, are black people, who sort of cast a dark pall of shame on our skin. Why are...
I was graciously invited to a political meeting recently in Abuja. I hadn’t been to such in a while and of course, my political interest in Nigeria is waning, but not my interest in Nigeria herself. In such meetings where there are quite a number of individuals with heavy political credentials in their own rights,...
(TRANSCRIBED AND ABRIDGED BY TOPE FASUA) No one can ignore a gathering force that is reshaping the future of every member of this assembly; there has been nothing like it in history. When I think of the great scientific revolutions of the past; print, the steam engine, aviation, the atomic age, I think of new...
After the rain comes the sun. And by extension, after the sun comes the rain. Economists have always believed in the boom and bust cycle, sometimes as a routine behavior of economies, but sometimes due to the external factors, such as wars, diseases, epidemics, pandemics, or on the flip side, discoveries of new medicines, new...
I listened to the paramount ruler of Somolu today as he expressed support for Sunday Igboho, very eloquently, and as he foreclosed the idea of the Yorubas continuing with the Nigerian entity. The Oba called it a war of independence (ija’gbara in Yoruba language). But he launched into deep history (especially of Lisabi and the...
I have been listening to the ongoing condemnation of Nigerian medical doctors with increasing worry. Because of the grief involved, there is usually finality, totality and fatality involved in the complaints. ALL Nigerian medical doctors are blamed, and no one remembers to speak up for the many who may be doing well and trying their...
Corruption is only one part of this The other reasons are: IMPORTED TECHNOLOGY IMPORTED PERSONNEL IMPORTED MATERIALS IMPORTED DESIGNS, SOFTWARES AND KNOWHOW INEFFICIENT LOGISTICS HERE THAT ADDS COSTS TO EVERYTHING BAD PLANNING LEADING TO DELAYS NO ECONOMIES OF SCALE FOR THE AIRPORT TO TAP INTO TO MAKE ITS CONSTRUCTION CHEAPER DISLINK BETWEEN ACADEMIA AND INDUSTRY....
I had made up my mind to write to you openly before I saw the viral video by Dr Shadi Sabeh, who appealed to you passionately to taper your actions with a ‘human face’ with regard to the proposed sacking of 20,000 staff of the Kaduna State Government. I do not quite agree with Dr...
So, the other day, a younger brother of mine, Adeleke Adelana, posted an aerial picture on his Facebook page of the NECOM Building (or NET Building), with the caption ‘the tallest building in Nigeria’. I was taken aback. What?!! NET Building is STILL the tallest in Nigeria? It could be the perfect metaphor confirming that...
In December 2019 I wrote an article about Thomas Cook, the first ever travel agency and how that firm accidentally established tourism as we know it today. See https://opinion.premiumtimesng.com/…/thomas-cook…/. The company collapsed earlier that year, sending shockwaves across the world. The travelers’ cheques part of the business had since been sold to Travelex and that...
