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Atiku Abubakar And the Neoliberal Siege on Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: September 04, 2026In: GovernanceTags: Ant-SAP riots, APC governors, Dislocation, Fuel subsidy, Obasanjo-Atiku feud, Peter Obi, Privatisation, Super 5, Tinubu administrationNo CommentsViews:
Atiku Abubakar And the Neoliberal Siege on Nigeria

By Adagbo Onoja “If I win the presidential election, I will restore the subsidy. And anyone who stole Nigeria’s subsidy funds must return the money.” – Atiku Abubakar There’s a sense i... Read more

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JAF Calls for General Strike in Pursuit of System Change in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: August 11, 2022In: De-EscalationTags: ASUU, EFCC, Inflation, masses, NLC, Privatisation, TUCNo CommentsViews:
JAF Calls for General Strike in Pursuit of System Change in Nigeria

Two weeks after the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC)’s warning protests across Nigeria in connection with the Federal Government acting to end the six-month old strike action by the Acade... Read more

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DisCos As Collapse of Privatisation At Last in Nigeria Exactly As Predicted 38 Years Ago

Posted By: adminon: July 06, 2022In: FlashbackTags: DISCOs, IMF loan, NET, Nigeria Railway Corporation, private sector, Privatisation, The Nigerian Airway, The Nigerian External Telecommunications, The Nigerian national Shipping Line, The Nigerian ports AuthorityNo CommentsViews:
DisCos As Collapse of Privatisation At Last in Nigeria Exactly As Predicted 38 Years Ago

 “Privatization”, of necessity, assumes that any of the enterprises to be sold can be allowed to collapse without serious consequences to the country economically, militarily and politically... Read more

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What is President Buhari Going to Do With Dr. Modibbo Tukur’s 1984 Memo That Won’t Go Away? (2)

Posted By: adminon: March 19, 2019In: GovernanceTags: A. A. Ayida, Chile, Leyland Motors, Nigerian Economic Society, North-South Conference, Privatisation, Professor H. C. Kodlinye, Professor Ojetunji Aboyade, UNCTAD, UNIDONo CommentsViews:
What is President Buhari Going to Do With Dr. Modibbo Tukur’s 1984 Memo That Won’t Go Away? (2)

This is the second part of the memo that won’t go away even as, in his first encounter with it, the incumbent president of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, approved of it. One of his predecessors,... Read more

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Eskom, South Africa and Nigeria’s Next Likely Battle

Posted By: adminon: February 18, 2019In: FlashbackTags: CORRUPTION, Eskom, mismanagement, NEPA, Privatisation, State capture, TenderpreneursNo CommentsViews:
Eskom, South Africa and Nigeria’s Next Likely Battle

The contrasts between Nigeria and South Africa are tremendous but no less are the similarities. On contrasts, South Africa ranks among the 30 most industrialized countries in the world, a po... Read more

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Balarabe Musa’s Radical Aide Memoire to Nigeria @ 81

Posted By: adminon: October 30, 2017In: SpectacleTags: 'Survival of the fittest', ECONOMY, Privatisation, Public handsNo CommentsViews:
Balarabe Musa's Radical Aide Memoire to Nigeria @ 81

“This privatisation of the economy is creating a survival of the fittest situation. Government needs to go back to business and put the economy in public hands” Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa, Fir... Read more

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Economist Faults Intervention on Debt Moratorium, Calls Domestic Debt Nigeria’s Time Bomb

Posted By: adminon: May 17, 2017In: SpectacleTags: Cross-border finance, Debt Moratorium, Domestic debts, IMF, Privatisation, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, Time-bomb, VenezuelaNo CommentsViews:
Economist Faults Intervention on Debt Moratorium, Calls Domestic Debt Nigeria’s Time Bomb

A Development economist and a constructive critic of Intervention has faulted the platform’s story yesterday, (See “Is Debt Moratorium on the Table in the Turbulence of Negotiating Buhari’s... Read more

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