Uber is one of more than 20 multinational companies to have left the country
since APC came to power in 2015.
As Nigeria prepares to host IATF2027, it could not be timelier. The country is central to the AfCFTA’s success.
A few months before the 2023 general elections, the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi, warned voters to reject any politician who promised an easy road.
The FIPRE framework is designed to shift infrastructure practice “from delivering outputs to delivering sustainable outcomes”. It asks five plain questions of every project.
The problem is not a lack of entrepreneurial ambition or productive capacity. It reflects a mismatch between traditional banking models and farming realities.
Politicians denounce the monopolisation of power when they are outside the loci of power and defend monopolisation when they become beneficiaries of it.
That concert in Nnobi will never happen.
This is precisely what Governor Uba Sani’s administration has executed with these 4,050 artisans. This is not mere charity. It is the strategic demarketing of violence.
Sultan Abubakar III is, if you like, a moderate social crusader, which is somewhat ironic, given that he is from Sokoto, often regarded as the bastion of conservatism.
Nigeria does not need another ceremony in which politicians promise not to behave badly.
