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Author: Ifeanyi Uddin

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How Not To Treat Vernaculars – Ifeanyi Uddin

  • May 20, 2013

When, recently, in a circular to all staff, my employers forbade the speaking of “vernacular” in favour of the English language, my initial reaction was of extreme crossness. I guess[...]

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Who Will Speak Out For Me?

  • May 13, 2013

On Saturday morning, last week, in a conversation with friends on Facebook, I was reminded of Reverend Martin Niemoller’s famous 1937 statement – more about this later. Over the week[...]

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Whose Government?

  • May 6, 2013

There is a variety of Nigerian patriots for whom the mantra “my country, good or bad” is a creed of some sorts. Not, though, in the manner of a self-evident[...]

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Lessons From Our Nascent Online Retailers

  • April 29, 2013

The emergence of the online retail business in Nigeria was always going to upset a few established practices. One big question centered on how online retailing would play in the[...]

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Where Is The Economy Headed

  • April 22, 2013

There is this local quirk which never ceases to amuse (and amaze) me. A robust capacity for mimesis ensures that no sooner is the sod turned on some groundbreaking activity,[...]

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Discovering The Local Online Retailer

  • April 15, 2013

One advantage of shopping on-line is the sheer convenience of it all. It used to be something one did from a straight-backed chair across from a personal computer. And that[...]

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Tightening Banks’ Margin

  • April 8, 2013

Of late, bank customers in the country have had cause to smile on their way to the banks. Courtesy of recent central bank directives to the banks, they are being[...]

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Of Governments And The People

  • April 1, 2013

What is the purpose of government? Given the intensity of the arguments on all sides of this question, I suppose that discussion around it has been with us for as[...]

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De-legitimising Deregulation

  • March 25, 2013

The judgment, last week, of a federal high court, in which it found (amongst others) government’s deregulation of the downstream sector of the oil and gas industry “unlawful, illegal, null,[...]

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Of Taxes, Between The People And Their Government

  • March 18, 2013

In the first week of February, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released the country’s trade figures for last year. Importantly, we appeared to have sold more last year (N22.45tn)[...]

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