Evidence that the forced migration of Nigerians into the cashless society failed woefully is in the final decision by the Central Bank of Nigeria to obey the ruling of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and return the old N500 and N1000 notes into circulation. Now, you ask, “What was the point of the apparently ill-thought-out…
Segun Oyegbami’s personality, and the profound effect of his message came strong in the phone call he made after reading this column’s call to the Federal Government, and its relevant personnel and agencies, to “Please end this fuel crisis” about two weeks ago. If you read Oyegbami’s book, “Reversing The Rot in Nigeria,” an extremely…
Everyone appreciates that Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has prioritised traffic management in Lagos State. He extended the working hours, and doubled the allowances, of Lagos State Traffic Management Agency personnel. He commenced the rehabilitation of the over-clogged Mile 2-Tin Can Island segment of the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway that services the Apapa Port, as he got moral support…
As an alumnus, I am concerned about the recent rumblings in the University of Lagos, whose Governing Council set up a committee led by a chemistry lecturer at Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi State, Dr. Saminu Dagari, to audit the finances of the university. The committee reported that there was a “continuous, brazen, manifest and gross…
For the low, laughable, calibre of many of those who voted, were voted for, or will be voted for in future Nigerian elections, Dr. Kayode Esuola of the Institute of Diaspora Studies of the University of Lagos offered two explanations. First, he argues, the more articulate and educated middle class do not vote, or habitually…
History records the eastward migrations, through the Sahel to most of West Africa and parts of Central Africa. Sunni Ali, who made flourishing Gao into his capital city, extended the epic Songhai Empire eastwards – from Mali to most of Northwestern Nigeria. From religious proselytising of pre-colonial Hausa kingdoms, aliens from West Africa also interfered…
Finally, the lobby that wanted President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the Africa Continental Free Trade Area agreement defeated critics, like this writer. Nigeria became the 54th signatory, leaving Eritrea as the only holdout. Those who pushed the argument that globalisation is the “New World,” quite forgot that Brexit, Britain’s planned exit from the European Union,…
At the risk of sounding nauseatingly repetitive, it is necessary to remind President Muhammadu Buhari that he needs a Council of Economic Advisers to help his government think through, and formulate, appropriate responses to the economic challenges facing the nation. To achieve his intention “to implement initiatives that will lift our citizens out of poverty,…
It was reported that when Chief Obafemi Awolowo, first Premier of Western Nigeria, was going to give up on Nigeria’s politics in the 1980s, he projected that the masses of Nigeria, whom the elite refuse to educate, train, and provide jobs for, would fight for themselves when the time comes. The violence that is gradually…
The Director of the Ekiti State branch of the National Identity Management Commission, Gbenga Ifayefunmi, recently disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari had signed an Executive Order that makes it mandatory for Nigerians to present the National Identity Card before they can obtain Nigeria’s passport. Unlike civil service-wide government circulars issued from the Office of the…