Economy · Occupy Nigeria · Politics
Subsidy removal, the stroke that broke the camel’s back
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[…]
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Analysis · Occupy Nigeria · Politics
A boy without shoes to man without pity
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[…]
Fuel Subsidy: A plan after the protests.
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
Fuel Subsidy Removal: Messing With the Middle Class
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[…]
Boko Haram: The Three Phases of Terror
The amount of money an emir expends on a single trip to Europe for medical check-up would build a clinic big enough to serve a community of 5000 people; the[…]
Analysis · Economy · Occupy Nigeria · Politics
The Beginning of the End of the Bad Marriage?
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[…]
On Madam Tinubu
Madam Efunroye Tinubu was among the most prominent and powerful Yoruba women in pre-colonial Nigeria (early to mid 19th century). Other renowned Yoruba women from that period were Iyalode Efunsetan[…]
Culture and Society · Politics
Is it unAfrican to be gay? The Nigeria case
As I write this, Shell has just admitted that thousands of barrels of oil have spilt in the Bonga oil leak, the worst Nigeria has seen in over a decade. Nigerian universities are currently[…]
Culture and Society · Literature · World Affairs · Writing
chimamanda adichie on the maid in the dsk trial
chimamanda adichie has a wonderful piece in newsweek, reposted in the daily beast, that asks whether the jury would have believed dominique strauss-kahn or his alleged victim, guinean immigrant nafissatou[…]
The Religious War
Horror has come to stay in Nigeria. Or perhaps I am wrong. Perhaps this new phenomenon of horrific afternoons wondering why so many must die has been a fabric of[…]