Economic Liberalisation and the Nanny State
Olumide here. We asked people to send us questions on Nigeria’s development over Twitter. One of the questions, from @EssentialBolu, is: why should we continue to Liberalize our economy& still[…]
Category: General
Okorocha: Just One Promise is Enough …..Part 2
Part 1 can be found here. I went to Owerri Girls’ Secondary School (OGSS) Owerri, Imo State when OGSS was OGSS! Back then in the mid-nineties, only pupils who made[…]
Freedom of Information Act 2011: Good Stuff!
Laws are hardly fascinating collections of words. They don’t make leisure reads. The Freedom of Information Act is different. It is a clearly written piece of legislation and I[…]
What We Are Reading: Happy Birthday HIV and AIDS!
It will soon (on 5 June) be the birthday of HIV and AIDS. It is now 30 years since they arrived on the health horizon to change our world forever.[…]
How Not to Protect Domestic Industry
When it comes to deciding for or against the adoption of an “industrial policy”, I’m still not sure which part of the divide to plight my troth to. On one[…]
General · Perpectives · Politics
Nigeria’s Gubernatorial Elections and the Northern Voter
Starting in June, NigeriansTalk will feature monthly guest posts from non-Nigerians who follow Nigerian politics and cultural happenings. We hope this will liven up the site by giving you an[…]
Okorocha: Just One Promise is Enough …Part 1
On May 29, 2011, Rochas Anayo Owelle Okorocha joined other 25 governors in different parts of the country to take the oath of office as duly elected executive governors of[…]
Justice Delayed…?
Another day another war criminal has been apprehended in the person of the former Bosnian-Serb army leader, Ratko Mladic. He, along with former Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic handed over to[…]
Give Me Sunlight
First things firstly first; anything wrong with having lunch with the duly elected President and Commander-in-chief of the world’s biggest black nation? Absolutely not. At least on the part of[…]
Culture and Society · General · Literature · Politics
On DSK: Three views of the same scene
Peeping Dom ‘Wiping the unbelieving suds from his eyes, Dominique peeped once more through the judas hole in the bathroom door. He saw the panty-hosed assassin sent by Nicolas lean[…]