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BudgIT and stats for stats’ sake
BudgIT’s dire verdict, on states and their debts, made sensational headlines. But it was hinged on two suspect premises. One, the delegitimization, if not criminalization, of debts. That premise is...
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Good product, bad pitch — that, in marketing terms, about captures the current “restructuring campaign”, to correct the anomaly of Nigeria’s “unitary federalism”. Sure, other things being equal,...
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Remember Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, that seminal work first published in 1972, which audacious thinking set the academia on fire? In the Nigerian university campus of the 1980s,...
View ArticleTisa, no teach me nonsense
In periods of national foibles, the immortal lyrics of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, himself the Abami Eda (strange creature), comes to mind. In one of his vintage numbers, he was at his irreverent best:...
View ArticleStraight-and-narrow
Nigeria perpetually treads the wide and merry way, which the bible says, leads to destruction. The result is the present sorry state, which everyone hates. But each time it makes for the...
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Beyond outrage
Good old outrage is alive — and the nationwide uproar, over the Fulani herdsmen Benue killing, is proof. What routinized sleaze had numbed, shocking gore just woke — and just as well! A nation, in...
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The media and road to Kigali
When the Rwanda madness boiled over, a local radio it was that directed the grim orgy of point-and-kill. Here, “point-and-kill” is leisure lingo for local pepper soup gourmets. But the Kigali party...
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Again, Baba Iyabo thunders
Olusegun Obasanjo, former president of the Federal Republic, has thundered yet again! But it is nothing but jaded deja vu. Those swooning over Obasanjo’s latest Coalition for Nigeria (CN), would do...
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Between IBB and Atiku
“May your road be rough, may you have a hard time this year” – Tai Solarin (of blessed memory), 1 January 1964 In this season of emergency messiahs, it is meet to x-ray that Nigerian penchant to chase...
View ArticleAfolabi: Ode to community value
W ant to gauge your community value? Fix your birthday on a Monday morning; and see how many people would turn up. Well, anyone of high community value would dare no such hubris. Yet, that was what...
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