Jonathan as Beggar-in-Chief – Salisu Suleiman
Imagine that you’ve had a long, difficult day of meetings, visits and sorting out personal issues, and finally retire to bed at about midnight. However, the moment you fall asleep, you’re woken up[…]
Category: Analysis
The Long-term Consequences of the General Election
The attack ads have been most virulent. For some, the scurrility of the many claims made by the sponsors of these opinions is simply unacceptable. Yet, set against the practice[…]
Goodluck Was Here – Salisu Suleiman
The brutal swipe of the scimitar slashes through flesh and bones, cutting through the cord of life in one cruel instant. The sand is soaked with my blood, gushing from[…]
That We May Know, and Not Play Fast and Loose with the Truth
The run up to this year’s general elections has been most unusual. So intense is the passion on both sides of the incumbent president’s re-election bid that just about every[…]
Rebuilding the North East after Boko Haram
After the Second World War, the United States of America – which suffered the least loss in terms of human and material resources, emerged as the pre-eminent economic and military[…]
Did Dahiru Mangal Kill The Nigerian Textile Industry? – Feyi Fawehinmi
In the mid-1980s Nigeria had 175 textile mills. Over the quarter-century that followed, all but 25 shut down. Many of those that have struggled on do so only at a fraction[…]
Integrity as Political Capital – Salisu Suleiman
On 21st of December, 2014, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP held a fundraising dinner at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. In a few frenetic hours, over N21bn was raised. One[…]
The Military and Our Freedoms
A democracy may entertain questions on how the notion of popular sovereignty may be best put to play. The range of possibilities runs from direct democracies (small communities legislating by[…]
Market Sentiments, the Oil Price and the Naira’s Exchange Rate
Two developments (the first, over the last three weeks, and the other, work in progress of sorts) underscore the role that sentiments could play in driving divergence between the actual[…]
When CBN Closes A Window….
There’s no punchline. Sorry. CBN actually just closed the rDAS/wDAS window via a press release today. But what is rDAS/wDAS anyway? Retail Dutch Auction System is the method by which[…]