Escalating insecurity and public fear…sporadic policy creation…the glaring and widening gulf between the governing and governed… the appalling hurl of money at pressing national issues…the suspected lack of foresight…the near-death of hope…the trial of the resolute…the cry of the Nigerian [...]
We need to tackle an emergency that has our children live like dogs in the name of some higher but unconscionable goal.
Much of the debate ahead of the Federal Government of Nigeria’s surreptitious removal of the “subsidy” on the pump-station prices of petrol at the beginning of the year concentrated on the inflationary effect of the subsidy removal. There were those [...]
I spent the weekend working on an alternative measure of economic activity for Nigeria. Something different from the regular run of the mill GDP. One new option is to measure economic activity by monitoring night lights from space. The basic [...]
It is said that “a picture is worth a thousand words”. In the era of new media and youtube videos though, one could well say a video clip is worth a thousand photo albums, a few seconds of which could [...]
ONE: Accusations of extra-judicial killings in response to the Kano bombings have caused anger and more resentment towards Nigerian security forces. Local communities have reported disappearances of people they believe to be innocent, including a pregnant women. TWO: Hamza al-Mustapha [...]
“Our lives begin to end the moment we become silent about things that matter” – Martin Luther King. In the past few months, I have heard all sorts of stories about the unfortunate massacre of Muslim faithfuls in Jos, Plateau [...]
Economic Literacy is a new series in which our experts review and score popular economic writing on Nigeria. In the first installment, Abimbola Agboluaje and Ladipo Oye-Somefun review and score Simon Kolawole’s article “How Not to Remove Fuel Subsidy“. Ladipo [...]
Over the past few months, what had then been assumed to be low-level insurgency by Boko Haram has gradually become a clear-cut case of terrorism with the use of more powerful bombs and even suicide bombings. The response of the [...]
ONE: The aftermath of the attacks in Kano that targeted police stations, immigration offices, the local headquarters of the secret police claiming at least 143 lives continues. This could possibly be Boko Haram’s deadliest assault so far. President Goodluck Jonathan [...]
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