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Olugbenga A. Olufeagba
Subsidizing visionless Nigerian elites
In his book, The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa, published in 1922, Lugard gave very deep insights on…
Nigerian political leaders are not stakeholders
In business, a stakeholder is defined as a person or group who has an interest, vested or otherwise, in an…
The proposed 2018 budget, will it consolidate?
The President, on November 7th, presented a record high budget proposal of N8.612 trillion to the National Assembly…
Cluelessness fueling Nigeria’s unsustainable borrowing
Nigeria’s honorable minister of finance made an attempt to deconstruct Nigeria’s debt burden a few weeks ago, but…
A country rich in industrial action, but poor in…
In what has become a reoccurring ritual in Nigeria, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) just called off…
We all need constructive criticism
I always sympathize with every spokesman, be it that of a corporate organization or government, because…
The politics of selfish agitation and quest for…
Politics is as old as time itself, and agitation is one of the techniques by which a preferred political outcome is…
Nigeria in need of systems that work
The recent elections in France once again highlighted everything wrong with our political system. A 39 year old…
The irony of ‘jailed’ funds and free lunatics
Since the story broke on the $43mn ‘jailed’ in an empty apartment in Ikoyi, the idea of becoming a career…
The tragedy of sub-national governments’ welfare mindset
The ‘invisible hand’ idea as postulated by Adam Smith is one of the most fundamental equilibrating relations in…
The certainty of chaos
Many of us grew up hearing complaints about the many things wrong with Nigeria, but little did we know…
Economic development is not rocket science
The rarity of manned expeditions to the moon is a testament to the complexities involved in achieving such feat.…