Making Sense of What We Say
When plans to convene another talkfest around the seminal questions hemming in our quest for national cohesion were bruited about recently, my initial reaction was one of irritation. At the[…]
Unregulated Preachers, Unschooled Followers- Salisu Suleiman
For what it may be worth, Nigerians are very spiritual people. Nigerians of all religious inclinations wear our religions on our foreheads, pray at public functions, make a show of[…]
Of Attitude And Aptitude
I have heard expressed a preference for “attitude” over “aptitude”; and I have come to realise that this preference is contingent on a variety of circumstances. Attitude, for instance would,[…]
The Mekunu Revolution – Feyi Fawehinmi
I sent someone to a barber shop nearby just to hear what they are saying about my governor there. He said the barber was just complaining about how the governor[…]
Corporate Affairs Commission – Satan’s Embassy
I am not feeling in a particularly nice mood so I am not obliged to be generous or polite – the people who run Nigeria’s Corporate Affairs Commission are the[…]
Social infrastructure vs. Stomach infrastructure – Salisu Suleiman
Shortly after former president Olusegun Obasanjo’s reelection in 2003 and the hurricane he unleashed to unseat all but one Alliance for Democracy (AD) governors, he dispatched Mukhtari Shagari, whom he’d[…]
The CBN’s New Challenges
This month the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) rate-setting committee (the Monetary Policy Committee — MPC) meets for the first time under its new governor. He, incidentally, did feel a[…]
Parsing The Ekiti Handwringing – Feyi Fawehinmi
A loss like Kayode Fayemi’s in Ekiti on Saturday was bound to generate plenty of commentary and analysis. Predictably, people want to nail down ‘why’ he lost given that he[…]
The Genius of Jonathan – Salisu Suleiman
My piece titled, ‘2015: Why I will vote Jonathan’ elicited mixed responses. One reader, appalled by what he saw as my volte face on Jonathan, asked if I’d been ‘seen’.[…]
Why Must We Always Under-perform
Anyone who has ever played a game online from a Nigerian IP address would understand the severe limitations of our domestic internet connections. At the same time, having worked out[…]