EXACTLY one year ago, on May 29, 2023, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu made a fateful decision that would plunge Nigeria’s economy into absolute chaos. With the removal of fuel subsidies, the price of petroleum products skyrocketed, leaving citizens reeling in pain and untold agony. When Tinubu took office, fuel was sold at N197 per litre; … Read more
I have hazarded a thought-provoking analysis of the evolution of Nigeria’s minimum wage and its purchasing power over the years — where I compared the rising cost of living and the US dollar exchange rate — scientifically. In this part, I’m highlighting the significant decline in the value of the minimum wage, from being equivalent … Read more
THE grisly horror of broad day light mass massacre; multiple schoolchildren abductions, unmitigated terror and the hunger pang swilling across Nigeria, has finally converged to set aflame a nation on the tenterhooks. This is the damning fate of Africa most populous nation when last week Thursday morning, 286 students were taken by armed bandits on … Read more
PRECISELY five years ago, July 19, 2018, I forewarned in an article titled: “Avoiding The Road To Kigali”, published by countless newspapers, home and away, when President Muhammadu Buhari’s bigotry instinct pushed him to unleash his ethnic Fulani Herdsmen terrorists brothers on the traumatized nation. Here is my opening paragraph: “Those who say there have … Read more