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Analysis · Economy · General · Occupy Nigeria · Politics
“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[…]
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.
Analysis · Economy · Occupy Nigeria · Politics
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[…]
Analysis · Economy · Occupy Nigeria · Politics
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[…]
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[…]
Economy · Occupy Nigeria · Politics
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[…]
Analysis · Occupy Nigeria · Politics
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[…]
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[…]
Analysis · Economy · General · Occupy Nigeria · Politics
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[…]
Analysis · Economy · Occupy Nigeria · Politics
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[…]