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Some reports emanating from Nigeria succinctly tell a story of how the multi-level dysfunction that affects the country can converge on individuals. Figures are one thing, but stories give flesh to the bare bones of statistics. According to recent reports, a pregnant woman in Rivers State had unfortunately died about a year ago while having […]
Continue ReadingWhen I read the response of the Federal Government to last week’s International Monetary Fund report warning Nigeria over the implications of a high inflation rate and the slow impact of the economic reforms, it became clear that the people in government are not in touch with happenings in the economy. They live in a […]
Continue ReadingFormer President Bill Clinton left the White House at fifty-four with a financial challenge. It is inconceivable for us in Africa and especially in Nigeria, for a former President who had been a two-term Governor to boot, to ever face the daunting prospect of insolvency on leaving office. It is not as if he had a […]
Continue Reading1. Imperatives and Diversities of Democracy The two subjects- Democracy and Poverty- offer a freedom that I feel free to delve into on this occasion. We live in an assumed democracy in which poverty has become the most common feature of social being and economic existence. Whether you are rich or poor, the consequences of […]
Continue ReadingThe Presiding Pastor of Salvation Ministries, David Ibiyeomie, has stirred up controversy with his statement that Jesus Christ didn’t associate with poor people. The cleric said, Jesus’ actions and interactions, as recorded in the Bible, demonstrate his preference for visiting and associating with wealthy individuals rather than those in poverty. Pastor Ibiyeomie, during a worship […]
Continue ReadingAs Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu had a reputation for squeezing water from a stone by extracting taxes from even the most unlikely people. Stories still abound in Lagos of how menacing tax collectors forced struggling market women and small and micro businesses to pay taxes. For Tinubu, the end always justifies the means. And the […]
Continue ReadingIn her biography of Ayo Rosiji, one of the key politicians of Nigeria’s first republic, entitled Man With Vision, Australia-born historian, Nina Mba, citing a Holmes, called biographers “People who knead people.” In other words, biographers knead their subjects from raw flour into edible form. You then wonder what the late lecturer in the History […]
Continue ReadingChairman of the Presidential Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms Committee (PFPTRC), Taiwo Oyedele, has stated that Nigeria cannot become a wealthy country by continually taxing the most vulnerable people in society. He made the statement during a two-day Integrated National Financing Framework Core Working Group Retreat held at the Continental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos, on […]
Continue ReadingThere was a time in this country when professors earned more than federal permanent secretaries. That was before Nigeria happened to itself. A professor in 1973 was on a consolidated annual salary of £3,000; permanent secretaries earned £2,800. Today, the most senior professors do not take home N450,000 per month; federal permanent secretaries gross N1.3m […]
Continue ReadingAccording to one social media influencer, @PH_Promoter, the man here was reportedly abandoned by his African wife with whom they have seven children. Fortunately for the man, a Canadian tourist who visited the village fell in love with him. White tourist lady marries African man, and was reported to have taken him and his seven […]
Continue ReadingOn Monday, the President signed into law a bill establishing an education bank that will provide interest-free loans to “indigent students.” The clumsily titled bill, “An Act to Provide Easy Access to Higher Education For Nigerians Through Interest-Free Loans From Nigeria Education Bank Established in this Act with a View To Provide Education for All […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Senate President, Dr. Joseph Wayas died of poverty and not sickness, his first son, Joseph Wayas Jr, has said. Wayas, the Senate president in the Second Republic between 1979 and 1983, died at a London hospital in 2021. He was 83 years old. Speaking with The Nation in Abuja, Nigeria, Wayas Jr said his […]
Continue ReadingYou can’t tackle issues like poverty until you understand their root causes. Pastors who focus on self-enrichment through misleading their congregations misdiagnose these causes. That’s dangerous. In a continent abundant with resources, why does the lavish wealth of a few exist alongside the poverty of millions? Pastor Chris Oyikhalome, leader of Christ Embassy, could answer […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Presidential Spokesperson, businessman and motivational speaker, Reno Omokri is of the opinion that many people are religious and churchy because of poverty. In a post shared on his Instagram page, Reno opined that poverty alters one’s perspective. His post reads: “Poverty is why many people are religious and churchy. When these same people […]
Continue ReadingA new research has revealed that children from low-income backgrounds, where parents have a low level of education, have weaker brain activity and are more likely to be distracted. The Lead researcher, Prof John Spencer, from the University of East Anglia’s School of Psychology and his team studied the brain function of children aged between […]
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