Why the suffering millions are turning to Atiku Abubakar, and what he has committed to do with their trust Aare Amerijoye DOT.B Before any politician is named, consider a morning in this country. In Kano, a woman lights her fire before five o’clock to fry kosai, and by the time she has bought oil and...
By Kunle Oshobi The debate over Atiku Abubakar’s proposal to restore a targeted petrol subsidy has, in the last few weeks, been reduced by his critics to a single, simplistic question: is he for or against subsidy? That framing misses the point entirely, and it misses the deeper economic philosophy that the proposal is actually...
Aare Amerijoye DOT.B There is a species of Nigerian commentator who has made a career out of one sentence. Atiku sold Nigeria. That is the whole library. That is the entire scholarship. Strip away the adjectives, the borrowed indignation and the manufactured grief, and what remains is a single recycled sentence carried from column to...
Dr Alex Adum Ter There is a persistent attempt recently to present the 2006 Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) affair as though the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), under Nuhu Ribadu, established the criminal guilt of then Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, GCON and that the subsequent administrative panel merely confirmed that guilt. That is not...
Aare Amerijoye DOT.B The last meeting of the Federal Executive Council of the Obasanjo administration did not end with a valedictory speech. By the account of the man who sat at the President’s right hand for 8 years, it ended with luggage. Ghana must go bags, carried into the Council chamber, filled with memoranda from...
