The Petroleum Industry Bill and the Quest for a New Nigeria
By Obadiah Mailafia LAST week, Thursday July 1, the Senate finally passed the long-awaited Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB. A milestone in the history of our legislative affairs. Too many interests had repeatedly scuttled it over the years. According to the auditing and advisory firm, KPMG, previous attempts in 2009, 2012 and 2018 failed “because of […]
The organic intellectual in a free society
By Obadiah Mailafia Ours has become a chronically anti-intellectual society. It is only in a country such as ours that people with questionable pedigrees will become the rulers and shakers of the society. We have become a society that valorises illiteracy and puts a premium on men of low degree; where values and standards count […]
Notes from the Underground
By Obadiah Mailafia YOU never know the value of freedom until you’ve lost it. The hard-won freedoms that our fathers bravely fought for are being systematically eroded in our country today. Evil swaggers across the land like the proud harlot of Babylon. I have borrowed the title for my piece this morning from the novel […]
The Post-Coronavirus Global Economy and International Order (2)
By Obadiah Mailafia The first part published last week chronicled the battles over the years between man and viruses. It also stressed the need for more vigilance and work to stem the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic. The ILO warns that, globally, job losses could reach as high as 50 percent of the workforce. Agriculture, manufacturing and […]
The Post-Coronavirus Global Economy and International Order (Part 1)
By Obadiah Mailafia I AM highly honoured to have been invited to give this maiden lecture of the Economics Department of Lagos State University, LASU. It is gratifying to note that, over a relatively short period of its existence,LASU has registered such impressive strides and has positioned itself among the front ranks of the leading institutions […]
The order of things
Before heaven, I stand by my testimony; knowing that cowards die a thousand deaths before their time; I dared to speak truth to power… because my conscience will not allow me to rest
