DDG Weekly Column

Making 2023 elections worth our while

When was the last time you, as a Nigerian voter, rejoiced that the choices you made at the last election led to the consequences that you were expecting? In other words, were the expectations you had in voting for candidate A, B or C, fulfilled or were they tremendously dashed? These questions signpost the discussion […]

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Economic lag: Oyeyinka’s road map to recovery

There is an urgent need to implement the 2012 Oronsaye Report. Most agencies exist only as conduits for corruption. Prof Banji Oyeyinka, Senior Special Adviser on Industrialization to the President of the African Development Bank, at a public lecture on Friday, November 11, 2022 Politics and governance are two identical twins which closely resemble each […]

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Insecurity: The new siege on Yorubaland

As a country, we hardly pay attention to the most important things. On the contrary, we are often occupied with trivial, age-long divisions and matters of that nature which as mindset are not very different from fiddling while Rome burns. That is why, for instance, the nation’s cash cow, the oil sector, can be in […]

DDG Weekly Column

State governors and insecurity: Isa Yuguda’s gaffe

If a government will dedicate the entire resources and budget on security to ensure that everybody sleeps in his house…go to the President and say I have secured my state…I don’t have any money, will you please support me with N20bn, N30bn…The President will do that. Former Bauchi State Governor, Isa Yuguda, on Newsnight, Channels […]