Opinion

By AZU ISHIEKWENE It’s rare to find a multibillionaire who hasn’t had nasty battles. Yet, as battles go, the fight between Aliko Dangote, the founder of the Dangote Refinery, and the CEO of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), Farouk Ahmed, is among the most spectacular that Africa’s wealthiest man has had to fight in recent times. It won’t be a surprise if the resignation of Ahmed (and the chief executive of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, Gbenga Komolafe) on Wednesday marks a pause, rather than an end, because the problems run very deep. Dangote’s cement…

By Hon. Aliu Asipita Abdulmuluku It was our elders who said: "The elders cannot be in the marketplace and watch the head of the baby at the back of her mother unattended." Sadly, for a while now, the traditional institutions and elders of the Ebira Nation have gone limp and lame in the face of an attritious political battle that has defied logic and purpose. A once-close confidante of former Governor Yahaya Bello (FGYB) of Kogi State, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has remained locked in horns for the last eight to 10 years with the former Governor's political establishment and legacy.…

By Yanis Varoufakis Amazon Web Services, owned by top three richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos, posseses the basic infrastructure for other businesses to operate online, turning even governments into its serfs. But now some people are fighting back. For the past six years, every Black Friday – that made-up carnival of consumption – Amazon workers and their allies have mobilised across the world in coordinated strikes and protests. At first glance, these disputes look like the standard struggle between a giant capitalist employer and the people who keep it running. But Amazon is no ordinary corporation. It is…

By Hon. Aliu Asipita Abdulmulukuasipitamuluku25@gmail.com "Society is not built by individual morality but by the institutionalization of our collective morality and evolved values.. our political culture must shift at an individual level from those that seem to subjugate or demean the people as paupers to those values that see them as humans deserving of human dignity. That we shouldn't view them deserving of our pity but of their share of quality life offered by the potential of our common wealth that should be centrally pulled and deployed for their good." Quite often, we have become inundated with the terms "empowerment…