Columns culled from The Point Newspaper website
An embarrassing comparison is doing the rounds on social media: Ukraine, with a mere 600,000 square kilometres of land, is 2 percent of Africa’s landmass of 30 million square kilometres. Its 40 million population is 3 percent of Africa’s 1.3 billion people. Yet, most shamefully, Africa, with big giant Nigeria, is waiting on Ukraine, whose…
When told that his plan to promote pools betting as part of the economic plans to raise money for his government if he was elected President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is immoral and should be discouraged, Obafemi Awolowo countered that the stock exchange, that the elite engaged in, is equally a gambling, and…
Nigeria’s unimaginative Governors have again revealed their inadequacies and incompetencies by asking the Federal Government to stop paying fuel subsidies and hand over the money to them. Dr. Kayode Fayemi, Ekiti State Governor and Chairman of Nigeria Governors’ Forum, argues that the N3 trillion that the Federal Government expects to deduct from the Federation Account…