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Sep

07

2025

Lessons from Brazil and South Africa – By abiodun KOMOLAFE

Column, News, Opinion, PoliticsAbiodun KOMOLAFE, Nigeria, Politics

The best way to view the Nigerian nation is that it stands at a critical juncture. The central question is how to transform it from its current state into the country it ought to be: one of the world’s top 12 economies, with a low poverty rate and a growing, sustainable middle class. In this context, the actions and decisions of the current government are particularly significant. The present government has made a very good start. While this is a contentious statement, it is the stark and honest reality. Without a painful fiscal rebalancing of the economy, Nigeria would have…

Sep

06

2025

By Amos Oge Kalu

Mayday! Mayday! A Call To Unite Against The Execution Of Democracy By Tinubu And His ‘Gunmen’ I.

Column, News, Opinion, Politics2027, Nigeria, Nwaokobia Jnr, Politics

…Democracy Dies Where The Freedoms Enshrined In The Constitution Are Stifled And Strangled. …Tinubu With His Incessant Overseas Trips Like Nero 'Fiddles While Rome Burns'. …And Refusing The Opposition The Space To Organize Is Akin To Tying Democracy To The Shooting Range. I was forced by the troubling developments at home, over 10,712 Kilometres from my present location to suspend the series captioned '2027: Between Politics, Ambition And Country First' for this Mayday Call. We can talk about 2027 only when democracy survives the present madness at home. Clearly President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the minders of his Presidency appear…

Aug

29

2025

By Amos Oge Kalu

2027: Between Politics, Ambition And Country First I.

Column, News, Opinion, Politics2027, Chris Nwaokobia, Nigeria, Nwaokobia Jnr, Politics

With the flurry of politicians indicating interest to run for the high office of President come 2027, and the incumbency of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu Presidency, one would expect Politicians to prioritize the call to put Country before individual politics and ambition. If we agree that the present watch has done badly, and continues to lower all known leadership bars. If we agree that Nigerians are poorer and hungrier today than before. If we agree that the present government is spending far more resources with far less impact than previous administrations. If we agree that corruption under the present administration…

Aug

23

2025

By Amos Oge Kalu

Oseloka Obi And The Swim In The Mud By The Most Incorrigible Gang Of Sycophants.

Column, News, Opinion, Politics2027, Chris Nwaokobia, Nwaokobia Jnr, Opinion, Peter Obi, Politics

They see a dysfunctional Nigeria and say their god is making Nigeria better. So blind and distant from Truth that one wonders what specie of the humanoid they are. They steal resources they do not need in ten lifetimes and the sycophants say their god is spending on infrastructure. How terribly soulless they are. They inflate budgets in Billions and Trillions and the jesters say their god is investing in infrastructure more than any administration in our nation's history. And one wonders whether these rambunctious jesters and sycophants live on Mars or Jupiter. The National Assembly pads and inflates budgets…

Aug

23

2025

By Amos Oge Kalu

Power sector: The watts that weren’t!Byabiodun KOMOLAFE

Column, News, OpinionNigeria, Opinion, Politics

There was a delusion that the privatization of the power sector – an existing, dilapidated monopoly – would be as straightforward and eventually beneficial as the transformative liberalization of the telecommunications industry. What we are now witnessing is the shattering of that illusion, with the critical failure of the electricity sector. The entire framework was rushed, ill-conceived, and frankly, a disgrace to Nigeria. As with many things in Nigeria, a political elite, in a moment of cynical opportunism and historical amnesia, miscalculated that the success of the telecommunications sector would be effortlessly replicated. This was an almost ridiculously naive assumption,…