Archive for category: Occupy Nigeria

The Pains and Gains of #OccupyNigeria

The Pains and Gains of #OccupyNigeria

0 / January 23, 2012 3:47 pm

“Occupy Nigeria was a test-run to a revolution” -          Kayode Ogundamisi. Citizen journalist So it was that in the wee hours of Monday 16th January 2012, the series of strikes and mass protests called Occupy Nigeria for the most part [...]

Nigeria: #OccupyNigeria and Occupy their lives

Nigeria: #OccupyNigeria and Occupy their lives

0 / January 17, 2012 4:16 pm

The next stage of the #OccupyNigeria movement is a tenacious occupation of all political space to ensure our democracy is responsive, cost effective and working for the people.

It is More than Just Subsidy

It is More than Just Subsidy

0 / January 16, 2012 2:38 pm

In the past 2 weeks, all that has filled our airwaves, media and social networks has been the raging issue of fuel subsidy withdrawal. The debates for and against are ever on-going, with those against unarguably being the larger numbers. [...]

The Failed Subsidy Conclave

The Failed Subsidy Conclave

1 / January 15, 2012 1:27 pm

Saturday 14th January, 2012 Nigerians kept vigil, like the Christendom waiting on the conclave in Rome to announce a new pope. Indeed there was a conclave the cardinals this time being leadership of the Labour Unions and Civil society in [...]

Nigeria and its Fuel Subsidy Crisis

Nigeria and its Fuel Subsidy Crisis

1 / January 12, 2012 1:42 pm

Want to help Africa? Do business here was the TED rallying cry by former World Bank MD now Nigeria Finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. But, who is going to do business with you if you appeared clueless in the face of [...]

Subsidy removal, the stroke that broke the camel’s back

Subsidy removal, the stroke that broke the camel’s back

2 / January 11, 2012 8:57 am

I have waited quite a while to write this. Perhaps I was waiting to see how the first day of the strike would turn out. The initial protest march to Gani Fawehinmi Park took place on the 3rd of January, [...]

A boy without shoes to man without pity

A boy without shoes to man without pity

1 / January 10, 2012 10:36 pm

Last year, in the run up to the presidential elections, a few Nigerians saw through the ruse of the world’s most corrupt political party and warned that the PDP simply wanted to impose a weakling on Nigeria and milk the [...]

Fuel Subsidy: A plan after the protests.

Fuel Subsidy: A plan after the protests.

1 / January 9, 2012 3:45 pm

I have been one of those in favour of the removal of fuel subsidies. However for most Nigerians the problem is not that they don’t understand the logic of spending wisely. The problem is they don’t trust the government to [...]

Fuel Subsidy Removal: Messing With the Middle Class

Fuel Subsidy Removal: Messing With the Middle Class

3 / January 6, 2012 11:56 pm

  ANNOUNCING A CALLOUS POLICY WITH IMPUNITY A liberalization move by the government to deregulate the downstream sector of the oil industy by removing subsidy on petrol was announced on Sunday 1st January, New Year’s Day just when Nigerians were reeling [...]

The Beginning of the End of the Bad Marriage?

The Beginning of the End of the Bad Marriage?

1 / January 2, 2012 4:18 pm

Courtesy Vanguard Nigeria The history of Nigeria has for too long been like a bad Nollywood movie. Nigeria is that battered housewife who has taken her beatings quietly, allowed her earnings to be squandered by her wasteful, alcoholic, extravagant, unworthy [...]