Buhari 365 Part 2: Death And The King’s Herdsmen
This is the second of a 3-part series on Buhari’s 1st year in office. The focus will be on 3 broad areas — corruption, insecurity, economy — that Buhari and the APC were elected[…]
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Government as Shakara
“I go beat you I go nearly kill you Na shakara. I go beat you, e go be like you get accident! Na shakara. You see, im no fit do[…]
Buhari 365 Part 1: La Corruzione Fantastico
This is the first of a 3-part series on Buhari’s 1st year in office. The focus will be on 3 broad areas — corruption, insecurity, economy — that Buhari and the APC were elected[…]
Political Solutions and Economic Problems
No matter how deep, or varied; no matter how sophisticated the options put forward for turning the country around, conversation around these issues inevitably ends by implicating an effete populace[…]
The Word On The Streets XV: The Foreign Currency Edition
If you’re not hip to TWOTS, you can run through past editions here. Your correspondent flew under the radar for 4 days in Lagos last week. Here’s what I saw[…]
Nigeria: On The Little Matter Of The Economy
In spite of visceral antipathy to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the country, the Fund has only ever advised governments here. Mid-1980s, in the aftermath of the ballyhooed debate[…]
Of Lies and the National Character
Of late, I have made much on my social media posts of the minister of state for petroleum’s fib. He had a couple of weeks back promised the country respite[…]
Can We Be A Democracy With A Closed Economy?
As the domestic economy continues to tread water, our talking heads find themselves preoccupied; both with the intensity of the new narratives; and because of the variety of panaceas on[…]
Swap It, Don’t Break It – Feyi Fawehinmi
Imagine you are China. You sell a lot of stuff to the world. In fact, your whole economy is based on selling things to the world. You have an incentive[…]
Ajaokuta — The Beginning
As you’ve probably seen in the news, steelmaking in Britain is facing an existential crisis. After losing about £5bn in total, TATA are understandably fed up and have now thrown[…]