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Southwest: Beyond The Toga Of Statism, By abiodun KOMOLAFE

THE Lagos State Government recently endorsed a food production agreement with the Niger State Government. The partnership, known as the ‘Produce for Lagos Initiative’, is aimed at ensuring a steady flow of agricultural products to the end consumers. Interestingly, this…

But What Really Is Nigeria’s Problem? By abiodun KOMOLAFE

WHEN, in 1814, Europe’s leading statesman, Count Metternich, said that Italy “is only a geographical expression”, the former Deputy of the Kingdom of Italy and the Father of Modern Italy, Giuseppe Garibaldi, didn’t take it as an offence. Instead, the…

Nigeria Needs Strategy Overhaul! By abiodun KOMOLAFE

AS of today, the basic problem with Nigeria on the war against terrorism is that she is following a defective strategic front. This is what the situation is and it is very sad! All the empirical evidence in the last…

Nigeria: Powering Beyond The Immediate, By abiodun KOMOLAFE

NIGERIA is at a crossroads and Nigerians are trying to find the responses to an economic crisis and currency turmoil. Of course, all manner of symptoms keep appearing! Towards the end of February, Governor Biodun Oyebanji unveiled a N12 billion…

Osun APC And Some Hard Home Truths (2), By abiodun KOMOLAFE

AS of July 16, 2022, Iyiola Omisore, a Prince of Ife and a celebrated political strategist and master of the game, was the party’s National Secretary. Still, APC lost very badly in Ifeland. Incidentally, that’s where Sooko Tajudeen Lawal, the…

Still On The Wike-Fubara Feud, By abiodun KOMOLAFE

IF we go back to the history of Nigeria, the truth is: dear fatherland has learnt nothing. In the days of Obafemi Awolowo and Ladoke Akintola, this was how they started inventing stuff that had never been in existence; and…

Nigeria, Revenue Poverty And Taxation Atrophy, By abiodun KOMOLAFE

WHEN our forefathers came up with the wise saying that ‘the earnest wish of potters is for earth to be clay’, it was not only worthy of commendation but also no mean achievement. The beauty of the adage is that,…

The Passable View Of Roads In Southwest Nigeria, By abiodun KOMOLAFE

FROM time immemorial, the masses have relied on constituted governments to implement road projects for the socio-political economy of the society. Whichever government got the construction right would be praised while those who focused on the maintenance would also be…

Oyebanji, Ekiti And Purposeful Leadership, By abiodun KOMOLAFE

ALTHOUGH the initial steps have to be taken by the individual, the picture of personality as having “power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless” is working for Governor Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji of Ekiti State….

Governor Oyebanji’s One Year In Office By abiodun KOMOLAFE

GOVERNOR Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji of Ekiti State is privileged to have inherited a stable platform. Were it to have been otherwise, one doubts if he would by now have finished negotiating the trouble zones, not to talk about development in…