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Category: Columns
Mace Heist: The rise of mobocracy
At about 11:15 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18, 2018, the Senate plenary was violently disrupted…
The economics of public holidays
The philosophy behind declaring public holidays is a laudable one. Public holidays are designed to commemorate…
Why great leaders gain from criticism and others don’t
On the 22nd of March, Bill Gates attended an expanded meeting of the national executive council…
Why do we love to inflict hardship on ourselves?
Yes, there have been clamours to reconstruct the roads leading into the nation’s ports and especially…
The imprudence of shutting Wharf Road
It is evident that any strategic and holistic plan geared at leapfrogging Nigeria’s economic development,…
Poverty as Nigeria’s new normal
There is nothing more shocking than being freed from a prolonged season of delusive understanding.…
The economics of public holidays
The philosophy behind declaring public holidays is a laudable one. Public holidays are designed to…
So Lagos means business?
By Ace Omozuwa When I read the news report that the Lagos State Governmenthas declared Thursday…
The merry-go-round on Nigeria’s refineries
On May 17th 2007, less than two weeks to the expiration of the President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration,…
Let’s not swindle posterity
The Minister of Transportation, Mr. RotimiAmaechi, recently disclosed that the federal government is negotiating $15…