Politics - Page 173

Oil industry ‘reform’ cannot be driven by product price increases alone. In fact, that is no reform at all; it is a normal demand and supply reaction that can easily be settled with sufficient product supplies. An oil industry reform which the

TINUBU WAS NO FLUKE AFTERALL: When a Bola Ahmed Tinubu was declared president of Nigeria, a cold chill spread around the country. It was the same response a few days ago when a Donald Trump clinched the presidency of the United States

WHEN this writer had nearly concluded that the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration was marble-hearted, it turned out to have some vestiges of fellow-feeling, even if feigned, after all. Following the arraignment of gaunt, holocaust-like minors before an Abuja High Court last

A few weeks ago, I spoke at a symposium in my university here in Georgia on the implications of the U.S. presidential election for the African diaspora. To the bemusement of my audience (who were a mix of Donald Trump and Kamala

Donald Trump is returning to the White House, and while this will not change what most critics think of him, it should compel them to take a close look in the mirror. They lost this election as much as Mr. Trump

I understand wealthy US citizens and conservatives of the evangelical hue rooting for Donald Trump. The rich believe he would loosen regulations and protect them and their businesses from excessive taxation. Conservative evangelicals believe he is the bulwark against wokeism, especially the

“For unity to be meaningful, it has to be creative, not the unity of Jonah in the whale but the unity of holy matrimony. The first can only lead to defecation, the second to procreation”- Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu. In 1989 the late

It was former Nigerian Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida who, in an answer to a question as to why he would rarely step back from a course of action he had taken while he was Head of State, despite criticisms, quipped: