On a whim the other day, I decided to determine what the price per liter of crude oil is. Of course I had been worried sick that this crude oil thing is a big myth. This crude oil upon which every calculation is based in Nigeria is a big mirage. I just spoke with a...
Cliches. Too many of them exist in Nigeria. If I had one Naira for each time I’ve heard someone say, with all the intelligence they can muster, and lay their degrees on the line, that Nigeria should diversify into agriculture, or when government boasts that Nigeria will export agricultural products around the world to the...
Nigeria is certainly not the most diverse country in the world, neither is it the most populated. By toeing the line of disintegration and talking it down, we are only confirming our own incompetence and inability to think long-term or self-govern. We are justifying racists who say we aren’t. ABUJA–AHEAD of 2019 general elections, the...
I just received a text requesting for comment from one newspaper correspondent. He wrote about ‘rumours’ that the government is compelling all MDA s – Ministries, Departments and Agencies to reduce their budgets for 2019 and wanted to know the implications. In the news is also the fact that government has taken from the budget...
I visited Oshogbo, the Osun State Capital, recently. This was my second visit to the city, and I believe I got a better glimpse of it. On both occasions that I’ve been there I saw a people in financial distress. Of course as in most other states in Nigeria, anyone not plugged directly to government...
Since I gave up paying bills in my house, my poor wife has been picking the bills. Of late I’ve been paying mind to her struggles. I was shocked the first time I found out that we spent N10,000 on electricity every week, even though we still have down time when the estate generating set...
I have been getting invitations to vote for a young Nigerian lady who is being nominated by no less than CNN as a world hero. I am happy for her and the strides she has achieved, teaching young girls from poor families – precisely from Makoko (one of Nigeria’s many slums) – how to code....
While everyone else is busy pursuing Buhari’s WAEC certificate – something he clearly doesn’t have and which does not matter as much as we make it – the economy has collapsed. Everywhere I turn we see all the debris, the remains of a once promising economy. The carelessness, mismanagement and open looting has never been...
Nigeria’s economy hangs on a fiscal cliff, ready to tip over into eternity. The society is also on the brink like never before. Kaduna is back at war and in curfew. Jos is not easy to contemplate. Shi’ites rocked Abuja this Saturday. The entire country is tinderbox as a result of politics. The ruling party...
So the other day my friend Samson Itodo and a few of his friends went and got the Not-Too-Young-To-Rule Bill passed. Passing a bill is an arduous task. You need all the links and connections in the world to get things fast tracked. But they got it done. Kudos to the team. Then it occurred to...
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