Being A White Businessman In Nigeria An introductory view of White privilege as it happens in the corridors of power in Abuja, Nigeria and elsewhere in the country with regards to doing business. This is rendered in comparison to Black denial hurled at Nigerians in the same places.
Category: Governance
Where is Nigeria’s Great Middle-Class in 2021?
Where is Nigeria’s Thriving Middle-Class in 2021? The Youth Want to Know. A truism of economies is they thrive when they have a large stable middle-class. In the mid-2010s, one of the most aggressive facts promoted about the Nigerian economy was that it had created a large and thriving middle-class….
The New Economy After Covid
The New Economy After Covid: If you are in the lower and middle income brackets. As we approach the uncertain aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, many developed and developing societies remain shaken, disrupted and precarious. Jobs and austerity are the main tacit or stated socioeconomic fear of most people. The…
Illiterates Did Not Win Buhari Elections
Illiterates Did Not Win Buhari Elections Why should ignorance and illiteracy always take the blame for the failings of the weak democracy in Nigeria? It takes some extremism or disturbing denial to ignore or even use derisory evidence and poor logics to affirm President Muhammadu Buhari’s government since 2015 is…
Yankius: Arsenal F.C. & Fainting Thief
Yankius on Arsenal F.C. and the Fainting Thief Riverine Remedy: Yankius, you self, you cannot even ask after me if I don’t call you. Na so your friendship be? Yankius: O mi Riverine Remedy, have you not heard of 5G and its cover-up story? If not for that, to call…
Cycling Education and Strong Institutions
Cycling Education and Strong Institutions Formal education is one of the most overrated things in human development people on the African continent can gain. Maybe it so elsewhere too. Education in the formal sense is an “institutional thing,” i.e. the stuff of institutions. It is not just the stuff of…
An Unusual Conservative Perception of Covid
An Unusual Conservative Perception of Covid Ideology can be such a blinding and narrow-minded state of mind, individual or collective. Accurate history informs us that plagues and pandemics have devastated the world several times and for millennia. Long before socialism and capitalism came into existence. And humanity is still here….
The Leadership of Rotten Parts
The Leadership of Rotten Parts The magic of Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has come from his citizens. But nothing of significance he has done as leader of the nation. Blamocracy (blaming past administrations for the impossibility of addressing present troubles) and claimocracy (claiming credit for the achievements of former governments) now…
The Perception of Development: Nigerian-Style
The Perception of Development: Nigerian-Style One of the most interesting but intractable things about development in Nigeria is the pervasive perception of both what it is and should be. What is development? Why are Nigerians always left behind? These are questions best answered indirectly.
Corruption is the New Meaning of Life
Corruption is the New Meaning of Life: It Is Here to Guide Us Corruption shows its face unobstructed in most forms of social organisation in today’s world. Under the present rules of governance, they license corruption for use with discretion and embed itself deeper in societies, eliminating most opposition to…