Fewer and fewer statements concerning inclusion of poor people into the economy are heard nowadays in Nigeria. Instead of such statements, the society is served a menu of very obvious... Read more
By Adagbo ONOJA In the first part yesterday, Bayero University, Kano’s Professor Ibrahim Bello-Kano argued that Nigeria is finally arriving at the destination that what he identifies as a ce... Read more
By Okello Oculi Reading the interview Bishop Hassan Kukah gave to Africa Confidential – and reprinted in Intervention online recently, – one gets a sense of his intellectual sol... Read more
By Adagbo ONOJA Nigeria is, indeed, at war. It is the kind of ‘war’ imagined in Eedris Abdulkareem’s musical number ‘Jaga Jaga’ and in which the society is decentred. The songster’s l... Read more
In Nigeria, whether to sell existing stock of national assets or not has been the debate for the past thirty or more years since the Ibrahim Babangida regime started it all in 1985. In 2016,... Read more
By Professor Okello Oculi A neo-comic news item telecast by the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) Network News showed two elderly American businessmen – wrapped in locally woven Tiv... Read more
Division on whether to sell or not to sell state assets as a way of handling recession in Nigeria has divided the nation starkly between those for and those against. It is a completely new t... Read more
“Honourable Colleagues, there is no doubt that over the years, the procedure for the making of the National budget has been generally unsatisfactory. There is not enough pre-budget consultat... Read more
It was a bad day yesterday in the Senate for protagonists of sale of state assets as exit strategy from the current recession. Major interventions on the proposals to that effect did not agr... Read more
