by Kayode Komolafe The question of the moment is not if the opaque subsidy regime should be stopped; the point at issue is when and how the failed policy should end. This is one of the great challenges before Buhari. In the spirit of a debate that has lasted for over three decades on one... Read More

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April 22, 2015

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Kayode Komolafe: Has globalisation come to a dead end?

by Kayode Komolafe These are certainly scary times for young men and women migrating to seek better life elsewhere. The situation is more pathetic in Africa as demonstrated by two tragic developments. The two tragedies are related because they have similar socio-economic undercurrents. In South Africa xenophobic attacks, which began a few days ago, have... Read More

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April 8, 2015

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Kayode Komolafe: Let’s remember the victims of electoral violence

by Kayode Komolafe As political parties and their candidates gird their loins for the Saturday election, it is important to intensify the campaign against electoral violence. There is justifiable euphoria in the land. The obvious reason is that the prediction of doom about the March 28 presidential election has mercifully failed to come to pass.... Read More

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April 1, 2015

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Kayode Komolafe: Yes, Nigeria is the winner!

by Kayode Komolafe No one expects a perfect election; but scary developments reported in some states have shown that a lot of work has to be done to improve the electoral process. This is one occasion when it would not amount to indulgence in cliché to say that history is made. For obvious reasons, the... Read More

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March 25, 2015

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Opinion: The real winner should be Nigeria’s democracy

by Kayode Komolafe The air of uncertainty heralding the elections is another symptom of underdevelopment. The processes should be regular and predictable. It would not be asking for too much that this should be attributes defining the political process. By this time next week the 2015 presidential election must have been won and lost. That... Read More

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December 12, 2013

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Opinion: A farewell like no other

by Kayode Komolafe The farewell witnessed a diversity, which could only be found a Mandela funeral. It was an ideological and political rainbow coalition of world leaders converging on a rainbow nation, the building of which Mandela admirably devoted his life. Some of the things that have happened are only possible in a Mandela funeral.... Read More

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October 16, 2013

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Kayode Komolafe: Still on the real purpose of National Dialogue

by Kayode Komolafe Beyond that, there is a deep conceptual confusion about what the agenda of the conference could ever be. Some have even said the collapse of public education, the gross underdevelopment of healthcare system, the decay of infrastructure and several other problems of Nigeria are to be resolved in the national conference. Since... Read More

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August 22, 2013

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Kayode Komolafe: The political issues and non-issues

by Kayode Komolafe There are enough issues to occupy the attention of any party or politician interested in discussing them with the aim of finding solutions to problems confronting the people. That is why the political parties should embrace politics of ideas. The recent exchange of tirades between the presidency and the newly registered, political... Read More

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July 31, 2013

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Kayode Komolafe: But where are the jobs?

by Kayode Komolafe Jobs are not only meant to give the young men and women means of livelihood, being employed is a source of moral fulfillment, a feeling of being useful to oneself and the society It is no news anymore that without any regard to the mood of the people politicians have prematurely put... Read More

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July 24, 2013

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Kayode Komolafe: Dangote and creative capitalism

by Kayode Komolafe It takes a genuinely anti-poverty president or governor to focus more on those policies that would democratise access to basic needs rather engaging in propaganda of executing “projects” all over the place… Politicians and their publicists talk so much about “dividends of democracy”; yet the meaning of the phrase has become imprecise.... Read More

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June 26, 2013

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Kayode Komolafe: Is anyone listening to Gov. Shettima?

by Kayode Komolafe Whether in the Sahel or in the creeks what the crisis confronting the Nigerian state requires is a fundamental resolution. The solution should be holistic. After the declaration of the state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states, not a few observers must have considered the presidential committee on dialogue and... Read More

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Kayode Komolafe: Fuel subsidy as Buhari’s first baptism of fire

Kayode Komolafe: Has globalisation come to a dead end?

Kayode Komolafe: Let’s remember the victims of electoral violence

Kayode Komolafe: Yes, Nigeria is the winner!

Opinion: The real winner should be Nigeria’s democracy

Opinion: A farewell like no other

Kayode Komolafe: Still on the real purpose of National Dialogue

Kayode Komolafe: The political issues and non-issues

Kayode Komolafe: But where are the jobs?

Kayode Komolafe: Dangote and creative capitalism

Kayode Komolafe: Is anyone listening to Gov. Shettima?

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