Today, a state burial is being held for Queen Elizabeth II, who died on Thursday, September 8, 2022, after more than 70 years as monarch of the United Kingdom. She reigned longer than her great-grandmother Queen Victoria who ruled for 63 years and a few months. The only European monarch that reigned longer than Queen…
Whenever you see an American President standing between the podium bearing the Seal of the President of America and the flag that bears the motto of the United States of America besides the star-spangled banner—the flag of America—you cannot but marvel at the majesty. The motto, “E Pluribus Unum” or “One from many,” proposed by…
Colonizers Britain, France, Germany, Portugal, Belgium, Italy, and neo-imperialist America, did harm to the economies of Nigeria and other peripheral economies of the world. Michael Hudson admitted as much. He touted the truth about the cause of the perennial poverty of the peripheral economies, relative to the metropolitan economies of North America, Western Europe and…
These days, many Nigerian youths (and oldies) are emigrating to North America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe and the Pacific (that include Australia, New Zealand, Japan and other counties in droves). It’s called “Japa” these days. Those who practically invade the consular offices of foreign embassies are the tame ones. Many others go on extremely dangerous…
For some inexplicable reasons, those who fear restructuring think it ends at power decentralization and fiscal federalism, the whittling down of the powers of the Federal Government that they have captured for personal and ethnic advantage. They have probably never thought, for instance, of liberalization of bank funding of mass housing, so that many more…
It’s certainly too late to do anything about the choice and character of those who will fly the flags of Nigeria’s political parties—at the presidential, governorship and legislative levels—in the 2023 general elections whose electioneering campaigns will officially kick off today. This is because the party primaries, which were dollarised in the main by politicians…
Namesake Olamilekan Adeola of Lagos West Senatorial district, who is now looking to snag the Ogun West Senatorial district seat from Senator Tolulope Odebiyi, needs to be reminded of a quip by author Chinua Achebe, “Those whose palm-kernels were cracked by a benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble.” If he has enjoyed the…
Prof Usman Yusuf, Secretary to the hitherto unknown Chief of Defence Staff Action Committee, led by retired Major General Usman Abdulkadir, brought some unbelievable good news the other day. Even if he is Prof Yusuf who used to follow human GPRS, medical doctor and former Army captain, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, to the “Forest of a…
Those who say that the government must get out of the way of business may not be correct after all. America, the bastion of a free market economy, that insists that only business must do business, is actually guilty of being the handmaiden of business. Uncle Sam is the biggest promoter of commerce in the…
Inspired by his posturing that he doesn’t want petrol subsidy to go beyond mid-2023, everything points to President Muhammadu Buhari setting a booby-trap for his successor. He will be passing to his successor a N20.51 trillion 2023 budget with N10.78 trillion, or an entire half, as deficit, and a staggering subsidy portfolio of N3.46 trillion….