Tag: Ifeanyi Uddin

Opinion: Sacrificing aptitude on the altar of attitude

by Ifeanyi Uddin Attitude is essentially a question of individual dispositions. How one feels or thinks about anything. Reaction to external stimuli, if you will.  I have heard expressed a…

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Opinion: New challenges facing the Central Bank of Nigeria

by Ifeanyi Uddin To be fair to his critics, the new CBN governor did not dimension his tasks this lucidly. For the most part, he came across like a low-level…

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Opinion: How to be a Nigerian

by Ifeanyi Uddin After all, what are these, but conventions that were bequeathed us by our colonial masters? And we have evidence that they were not an overly kindly lot.…

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Opinion: Terrorism – We must make critical distinctions before it all unravels

by Ifeanyi Uddin For obvious reasons, the administration at the centre is in a funk. In its favour, it has been argued that we may be seeing the result of…

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Opinion: Let’s talk about these new GDP numbers

by Ifeanyi Uddin Evidently, despite the new ginormous size of our economy, there is an equally humongous opportunity for improvement. We could glory in the many upsides of the new…

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Opinion: The problem with Nigeria’s fuel subsidy programme

by Ifeanyi Uddin At this point, I can think of a dozen reasons why the fuel subsidy should stay. Easily the first is why any Nigerian should trust this government…

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Opinion: Is the US government responsible for Boko Haram?

by Ifeanyi Uddin For evidence of the United States of America’s perfidious role in the escalation of our domestic insurgency, my interlocutors point at Boko Haram’s growing sophistication, and the…

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Opinion: But why would Osun gov’t build a church?

by Ifeanyi Uddin One of the biggest threats to our democracy, today, is the relationship between the church and the state. Christians rejoice when the newspapers report visits to general…

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Opinion: Guarantees are a broad brush with toll roads and the public account

by Ifeanyi Uddin First, governments could opt to build the roads cheaply, deploying tax revenues for this purpose. In this case, tolling will be part of a cost-recovery scheme. Another…

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Opinion: National Conference or not, how do we discuss our problems?

by Ifeanyi Uddin How about disenfranchising this mass? What if we enacted either property or educational qualifications for voting? On the face of it, we may thereby ensure that the…

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Opinion: ASUU strike, a private university and its run-down structure

by Ifeanyi Uddin While we hope that at the heart of ASUU’s current strike action is an intent that leads down this path, it is sad that private universities unburdened…

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Opinion: ASUU strike – A case for choosing a private university

by Ifeanyi Uddin Unable to answer these questions, I have committed to sending my child to a private university. The ambience of these remind of mission-run secondary schools of yore.…

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