Why minimum wage is a bad idea
Apart from bureaucracy and corruption, the main challenge for Nigeria has been the tendency, especially among states, the main power blocs, to prioritise rent and politics over creativity and competition.
“New” national anthem is national self-debasement
That instantiates a phenomenon that social anthropologists call cultural cringe.
One year of Tinubu: The man, the myth and the mediocrity
Plot all of these together, and you come up with a solid picture of a man whose administration lacks coordination and takes decisions based on what their hormones (and some spirits, of course) dictate.
Sanusi Lamido and Kano’s royal ding-dong
Well, after destroying properties worth billions of naira and restoring Sanusi as emir all in the bid to get even with Ganduje, I hope the government will now get down to actually governing and improving the lives of the people who elected it.
Nigeria’s economic apartheid in electricity consumption
I’m not sure there’s any modern country on earth where electricity is as precarious, as insufficient, as unreliable, and as socially stratified as it is in Nigeria.
The 2019 Tinubu speech we ignored is biting back
It’s defensible to suggest the broadening of the tax base of an economy, but not even the most ruthless, unfeeling, sadistic, and misanthropic tyrant would openly advocate the mass pauperization of the people as an economic policy.
House of Reps’ legislative banditry against universities
The background to this alleged legislative brigandage is that in January this year, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu approved the disbursement of N683,429,268,402.64 to public higher education institutions under the TETFund scheme.
North and Tinubu’s Back-to-Lagos moves
These twin events conspired to construct a semblance of intentional, Tinubu-backed first steps in an ultimate, long-hatched ditch-Abuja-for-Lagos scheme in the minds of some Northerners.
Did Tunji-Ojo turn off President Tinubu’s mic?
It is therefore imperative to analyse the obvious irregularities in the contract between Betta Edu’s Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and New Planet Projects Ltd.