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Dangote megaproject Refinery: Any hope for Survival?
The first $15 billion was already spent on Nevada’s Yucca Mountain megaproject until the Obama administration scrapped the project! A total of $65 billion, including damages, was spent on Yucca, and the ground was…
NNPC Must Go
Let’s face it, Nigeria has a problem called Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL. That problem begins with the organization’s rather ambiguous identity. ‘NNPC’ is one of the foremost household names in…
No to palliative governance
There is a Chinese proverb which is very popular among contemporary economists and leaders: “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for life”. The path a government…
How floating the naira has affected businesses in Nigeria
One of the first major policies of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s regime was the floating of the Naira to unify foreign exchange rates and save Nigeria the billions of dollars previously used to defend the…
‘Igbo Must Go’: To Where, please?
IN October 2001, the management of The Punch sent me to the South-East, ostensibly to coordinate political reporting for the newspaper in the zone ahead of the 2003 elections. I then made Abia my base, from where…
Here comes Tinubu’s baptism of fire
An American immigration officer caught me unawares with a probing question. I was…
What if Buhari had endorsed Osinbajo or Adesina?
As we await manifestation of a litany of promises of renewed and deferred hope, we can also begin to reflect on where the rain that has been beating us since 1999 actually began. I reflected on the rainmakers…
Anatomy of the hunger protest
There you have it. The “hunger protest” that took off in most parts of the country on Wednesday…
Effective Communication, A Necessity In Addressing National Protests – 8 Fundamental Economic…
The ongoing protests in Nigeria have highlighted a significant issue: the lack of coordinated…
Smoking while off-loading petrol
Heart surgeon, Masoud Pezeshkian, was sworn-in as President of Iran on Tuesday, July 30, 2024. His primary concern seemed to be about lifting the unilateral sanctions the United States, US, had imposed on his…
Dangote Refinery: Suffering amidst plenty, by Afe Babalola
NIGERIA is a hydrocarbon-rich nation. It is ranked by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, as the top crude oil producer in Africa as at May 2023, producing up to 1.4 million barrels of…
Understanding The AfCFTA Protocols On Intellectual Property And Patent Protection For Businesses In…
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is a landmark initiative aiming to establish a…
The Tale Of Nigeria’s Dangote And India’s Ambani
The politics of monopoly and oligarchy are familiar phenomena in Nigeria and beyond. During General Sani Abacha’s military rule in the 1990s, while working at the Federal Ministry of Finance, I…
Protest: Head Or Tail, We May All End Up Losers
All hell has been let loose, and the centre can no longer hold in Kenya over the tax revolt that has been ravaging that East-African country since June. In the wake of the crisis, a part of the parliament…
The ‘Area Boys’ of Lagos
A chance encounter with “Captain” recently set you thinking. You had attended a party held by a friend to…
A hungry mob is an angry mob
Nigerians have been invited to troop to the streets in their millions from Thursday, August 1, to protest the harsh economic situation following the…
Stop This Gang-Up Against Dangote Refinery
The negative attitude of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) and the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) towards the Dangote Petroleum Refinery…
Free Our President: A Plea to Bayo Onanuga and Ajuri Ngelale
From all indications, it has been determined by the media team of President Bola Tinubu that his best approach to engagement with Nigerians, is via statements rolled out by either Bayo Onanuga or Ajuri Ngelale. Bayo…
N250,000 minimum wage: Were labour unions daydreaming?
Globally, the number of people living in extreme poverty has increased following the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic amidst subdued economic growth. According to the World Bank’s Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2022…
NNPC Vs Dangote: Where the truth lies
Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, is not a stranger to adversity or its more sinister cousin, sabotage. One of the bitterest battles he has fought in the last 25 years—the cement war—was against his kinsman and…
The politics and economics of Dangote Refinery
Aliko Dangote deserves our collective support and official encouragement. I told him the day I visited his plant that he’s “an authentic African hero and a real icon, and I meant that from the bottom of my heart. As an…
Strategic use of PR: The landmark and Dangote cases as study by Joseph Edgar
Duke of Shomolu Speaks In the last twelve months, these two cases have…
Power Currency: The Conspiracy Against Bola Tinubu
By Jimoh Ibrahim What is Tinubu’s offence? The failure to use power as trading currency not leaning from Henry VIII of England (1491–1547), who imprisoned and executed those who would not sign his…
Dangote vs NNPC: Here’s what happens next
In 2019, I was covering the Mo Ibrahim Governance Weekend, where Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, sat with British-Sudanese billionaire, Mo Ibrahim, to discuss everything from investing to passports, to…