Oil Subsidy Removal: Please Lead Us By Example!
Originally Published On Nov 03, 2011 Debo Onifade Nigeria is blessed, and we have enormous potential to become a rich country. But we are very far from our potential. In 2011, our oil benchmark price was reported as $62 per barrel. If you assume 2.2 million barrels per day were produced in 365 days, and…
Liberating Nigeria
Now That The Strike Is Over
Originally Published On Jan 19, 2012 Debo Onifade Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced by pressures from below’ so says Roger Baldwin. I salute all the Nigerian comrades all over the world that participated in one way or the other in the last few weeks, to start…
Between Ogun State and State of New Jersey by Debo Onifade
Originally Published On Dec 04, 2013 Debo Onifade Although the State of New Jersey is highly regarded a bedroom community (where residents sleep and work elsewhere) for New York and Philadelphia, it has established itself as a very successful state in the United States of America. It is the 11th most populous state, second richest…
How Can We Create Jobs? By Debo Onifade
Originally Published On Nov 08, 2012 Many Nigerians followed the US presidential elections and showed a lot of excitement about Obama’s victory. I believe government officials were also energized, as we can deduce from the altercations between ACN and PDP that ensued after ABT (Ahmed Bola Tinubu) famously attended the Democratic convention. It is great…
Nigeria’s New Auto Policy: Cotonou Will Be The Greatest Beneficiary By Debo Onifade
Originally Published On Feb 12, 2014 Nigeria is a great country that has tried fantastic but unsuccessful policies over the last decades, and this sometimes causes a lot of confusion about what good policies can indeed work in Nigeria. NYSC, SAP, Zoning, Federal Character, Nationalization (like NNPC), etc are all policies or systems that had…
Taraba clash: Violence never settles problems ― Buhari
By Johnbosco Agbakwuru PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday evening said that the renewed communal clash in Taraba State was disturbing. President Buhari who condemned the latest ethnic violence in the state which left a large number of people dead said that violence was never the option to settle disputes. Reacting to the incident, Buhari said that…
Turning COVID-19 tragedy into opportunity for new Nigeria ― Emefiele
As many people are now aware, the outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID–19) in China has rapidly permeated and profoundly changed the world. While this crisis is first and foremost a public health issue, which has claimed the lives of over 123,600 people worldwide, and counting, the economic damages are unprecedented on several fronts:…
How to use face masks properly
On Tuesday, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) recommended the use of masks to curb the spread of the coronavirus, but only as a voluntary measure which it said must be done in addition to other directives such as social distancing and regular handwashing. While doing so, however, it is important to wear the…