Friday, January 31, 2014

This Nigeria's budget

Nigeria's budget proposals in the last  2 years shows that the present government's transformation agenda exists in name only. For a government that wants to "cut down the cost of governance and re-engineer the economic sector" the budget tells a different story. The country's N4.64 trillion...

Friday, January 24, 2014

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Think on this.

Hans Rosling in this TED talk discusses life expectancy, fertility rates and incomes between the global South and North from the 60s to 2000s. The video is very animated, lively and makes statistics  lucid,enjoyable and fun. It is a captivating 19 minutes that you would learn from.    The...

Tuesday, January 07, 2014

Government is working! Says who?

Happy New Year people…. Nigeria's ongoing democracy has birthed a new mindset that tolerates opacity and non-accountability in governance. The mentality is "at least the government is working” so no questions should be asked. This outlook is a consequence of years of military rule, where military...