Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu criticized Peter Obi for “demarketing” Nigeria during a Johns Hopkins University speech on April 24, calling him a hypocrite for critiquing the country’s high rate of poverty and claiming that his Anambra governorship was complicit, as reported in the Vanguard. Sanwo-Olu’s outburst, while defending Nigeria’s image, wrongly silences public opinion, … Read more
The popular Nigerian political proverb “for every politician, the next election is closer than the last.” This perhaps has begun to manifest barely two years after President Bola Tinubu took over the piloting the affairs of Nigeria. As Nigeria grapples with soaring inflation, crumbling infrastructure, and a youth population desperate for opportunity, a troubling question … Read more
By Ernen Kaanti I feel a deeply serious call to lament to the full earshot of Nigeria and maybe the entire world on the condition of things in the present Nigeria; a country undeservedly and abysmally saturated in social, political, economic, religious and constitutional conflicts and contradictions. Dear reader, be ready for a scary fact. … Read more
Pandemonium, sounds of gunshots, lamentations and hunger, kidnapping and banditry traceable to unemployment and poverty alongside unbearable inflation defined a democratic gun-vernment and NOT a democratic system. It’s unfortunate that Nigerians, in a desperate search for a democratic government that will bring peace and development got misled, misinformed and deceived by conspirators that brought in … Read more
By Jerome-Mario Utomi The growth, prosperity and national security of any country says development practitioners are critically dependent upon the adequacy of its electricity supply. And, the link between electricity supply and economic development is such that the health of the industry is a matter of deep and personal concern to all citizens. Nigeria is no exception. Even … Read more