Tick-Tock, Goodluck
The euphoria and hullabaloo that characterized the past elections are already weeks behind us, gradually fading away into the annals of history. While aggrieved stakeholders wait on the tribunals to[…]
Category: General
What Ails Nigerian Businesses?
The ramifications of the last electoral process in Nigeria has already been analyzed on this website and many “others”. We have mourned and buried the dead while waiting for the[…]
Nigeria: April inflation rate moderates
“The Composite Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 6 percent year-on-year in April 2011. This is lower than 12.8 percent recorded in the previous month in the new CPI series. The[…]
President Jonathan and Command and Control Economics
There was something wrong with news report last night to the effect that President Goodluck Jonathan had decreed a 30-day period within which cement manufacturers in Nigeria have to bring down the price of[…]
Stereotypes, Prejudices and the Social Media
On Monday 9th May, I had the privilege of attending a conference organized by Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and One World Media on lessons to be learnt from the role[…]
Does the Tax payer, pay?
Apropos of the furore over the House of Representative’s alleged N10 billion indebtedness to a local bank, and just after some form of accomodation had apparently been reached at the[…]
Weekly Ten: Week 1
ONE: Most Nigerians want constant electricity, in fact some people make the claim that Nigeria is a failed state mainly because of her inability to provide this basic infrastructure for[…]
Cynicism and The Nigerian State
One of the most pervasive fallacies in the Nigerian narrative, is the one that imputes a lack of knowledge on the part of our policy makers as the bane[…]
Culture and Society · General · Literature · Writing
alligator legs: my writing rules
the guardian asked zadie smith, one of a handful of contemporary writers, to comment on her rules for writing. since i found zadie’s list to be depressing, pessimistic, and utterly without joy,[…]
Culture and Society · Essays · General
Why there will be crap on Nigerian television for a long time to come (Part 2)
See the first part here In my previous article of the same title, I attempted a backgrounding of the many issues that have made it impossible for quality programming to[…]