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IS NIGERIA ECONOMY GROWING WITHOUT DEVELOPING? WHO IS RIGHT OR WRONG AMONG Reno Omokri , Dele Momodu and Doyin Okupe ?

- July 19, 2024

IS NIGERIA ECONOMY GROWING WITHOUT DEVELOPING? WHO IS RIGHT OR WRONG AMONG Reno Omokri , Dele Momodu and Doyin Okupe ? For active users of the X platform formerly known as Twitter and this blue app, there is no gainsaying that there has been public intellectual altercations among the above mentioned names over the open letter by Chief Dele Momodu to President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on the status of the economy in which an average man on the street is finding it difficult to make ends means. However, two erstwhile presidential spokesmen in person of Mr Reno Omokiri and Dr Doyin Okupe have debunked the claims that the Nigeria economy is actually performing with verifiable claims. I write this piece as a joinder to the ongoing debate. Let me start with the last question: who is right or wrong among the trio? My simple answer is that the three men are right, and none is wrong. To begin with, to say that an average man on the street is suffering is to say the obvious as opined by Chi

CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE CHALLENGE OF DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA – A NEO-MARXIAN PERSPECTIVE

- March 07, 2024

Climate change affects everyone – the farmers in the villages, the wine tappers on the palm trees, the fishermen in the rivers, the fashion designers in the shops, the financial experts in the banking halls, the clubbers and club owners in the cities, the doctors in the hospitals, the lecturers and the researchers in ivory towers. Climate change impacts the accessibility of favourable weather patterns, like rainfall and sunlight, for farmers, consequently influencing the productivity of their farms. The number of kegs of wine that the wine tappers can sieve from the palm trees is determined by a good or bad climate. Dried or shallow rivers affect fish and fishermen’s catch. Climate change influences the accessibility of cotton and fabric resources for fashion designers. The affordability and availability of papers and stationeries to the researchers and lecturers in tertiary institutions are to a large extent determined by climate change. To the clubbers and club owners, the prices o

VIP SECURITY: A BANE TO THE NIGERIAN INSECURITY INITIATIVES

- November 20, 2023

VIP SECURITY: A BANE TO THE NIGERIAN INSECURITY INITIATIVES The fundamental role of any reasonable and serious government is the protection of lives and properties. A nation that cannot secure itself against internal insurrection and external aggression is a disaster waiting to happen. The first symptom of a failed state is a high level of insecurity. Over the years, the Nigeria successive governments have made frantic efforts to rejig the Nigerian security architectures in the form of manpower development and procurement of security infrastructures, but these efforts have yielded little or no meaningful results. While there are so many reasons for this protracted problem, one of the major factors responsible for escalating cases of insecurity in Nigeria is the wrongful use and deployment of security personnel for unconstitutional duties. To me, the call by President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the withdrawal of VIP security is a right call worthy of commendation, but one which I&

LET THE POOR BREATHE

- July 16, 2023

LET THE POOR BREATHE - MAKING SENSE OUT OF #8000.00 CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFER (CCT) The greatest threat to human dignity is poverty, and it partly accounted for the rise of social vices in our world. According to the World Bank, about 9.2% of the world, or 719 million people, live in extreme poverty, on less than $2.15 a day. In Nigeria, a 2022 report says that an estimated population of 88.4 million people in Nigeria lived in extreme poverty. The number of men living on less than 1.90 U.S. dollars a day in the country reached around 44.7 million, while the count was at 43.7 million for women. The implications of this is that anyone who cannot afford #1700.00 either for food, water, electricity, clothes, shelter or other necessity of life falls within the category of extreme poor people in the world. The question that needs to be raised and answered are: are there people who cannot afford #1700.00 currently in Nigeria of today? If yes, where do they live? Do we have sufficient data t

OUR CULTURE, OUR WAY OF LIFE: THE SOON EXTINCTION OF THE YORUBA LANGUAGE

- May 13, 2023

OUR CULTURE, OUR WAY OF LIFE - THE SOON EXTINCTION OF THE YORUBA LANGUAGE AND CULTURE Culture, they say, is the way of life of some people. People are easily indefinable and distinguished from other people through their dressings, songs, languages, values among other things. One of the disingenuous effect of colonialism is the denigration and subjugation of our values, cultures and institutions but the past was not as bad as it is today. Growing up, speaking Yoruba in class (or school generally) was regarded as vernacular, today, there is almost complete extinction of the Yoruba and other indigenous languages such that English language is fast becoming our native or local language at the expense of the real local languages. As I listened to the lyrics and song in this video, I cannot but agree with the singers and the composer that those who termed Yoruba Language as vernacular really committed great wickedness and injustice against our tribe and motherland. Aside the fact that we

RESPECT LEFT THE TABLE BEFORE GEN Z AND GENERATION ALPHA CAME TO THE WORLD

- May 10, 2023

RESPECT LEFT THE TABLE BEFORE GEN Z AND GENERATION ALPHA CAME TO THE WORLD There is no doubt that years after years and generation after generation, preceding generation often finds it difficult to tolerate succeeding generation excesses due to some perceived cultural shock; but it seems the greatest cultural shock came with the Gen Z and Gen Alpha. To be conservative, there is likelihood that five out of every ten Gen Z and Gen Alpha lack manners, and respect is hardly in their dictionaries. Etiquette and courtesy are lost with them. To me and as far as value system are concerned, they seem to be a lost generation. From virtual to physical interaction, you can discern with ease what generation they belong to. When they speak rudely, they call it being bold. When they greet mannerless, it is a sign of civilization or an expression of their feminism or masculinity. No respect for institutions and personalities. Equality is the watchword irrespective of age and social sta

- April 02, 2023

THE OBI's VOICE CALL AND THE POLITICIAN WAY An average politician will cling to anything - religion, ethnicity, propaganda, and even diabolical means to get to power, so I'm not surprised by Obi's desperation or lust for power in his quest for the number one job in Nigeria by cajoling a revered man of God. It is in this wise, Niccolò Machiavelli said: 'the end justifies the means'. Be that as it may, note my use of 'average'. One statement that has gotten me into trouble most times in the political circle and that has robbed me of some political benefits is my wont of saying; 'I'm not a politician'; and this I say with all sense of modesty but sincerity. Seriously, I don't think, talk or act like a politician even though some of my intellectual and technocrat friends like Bunmi Jembola or Oamen Ignatius IG would firmly disagree. So in both camps, I'm a social misfit. Back to my essay - the politician way. Power is alluring. Power is i

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