If electricity generation, transmission and distribution companies were listed on the stock exchange, it is possible that the discipline of the marketplace would compel them to perform more optimally and deliver adequate electricity to the homes and businesses of Nigerians. This is the default argument of those who believe in the capitalist doctrine of a…
Nigeria’s “japa” generation are mostly youths who are daily becoming economic migrants in First World nations because their energies and talents are not being harnessed by the Nigerian political elite, who are practically ill-prepared and ill-fitted for the assignments they have forced upon themselves. In addition to a grand failure to come up with pragmatic…
After making brilliant predictions, economists then spoil everything with the caveat, “ceteris paribus,” or all things being equal. It’s their way of admitting that they are not God, and, like other mortals, are fallible. Economists even poke fun at themselves with the observation that when 10 economists form a committee, they’ll likely come up with…
Everyone knows that candidates for sundry political offices have expressed their intentions and provided their manifestos to the people of Nigeria. And the hour is fast approaching for you, the citizens of Nigeria, to choose those who will administer your affairs in the next four years. If the choice was between the reelection of incumbent…
If Americans let Donald Trump regain the presidential paradise he lost when President Joe Biden roundly defeated him in 2020, they must all be a bunch of sadomasochists who do not know what is good for them. If they tolerate him even as a presidential candidate in the 2024 presidential election, the message of John…