Friday, 29th March 2024
To guardian.ng
Search

Articles by Feyi Fawehinmi

1 Aug 2017
The basic facts of the ‘Superhighway’ are as follows. It will cost an eye-watering N200bn and will be 275km long. It is also going to be a ‘digital’ and ‘wi-fi’ superhighway.
18 Jul 2017
As much as Nigeria needs engineers and doctors, it also needs properly trained social scientists. I am talking about people who can see and understand social changes going on in a country and interpret them for policy makers.
4 Jul 2017
But the way Nigeria’s electoral act is set up means that primaries have to be done in one day. When you add this to the ‘delegate’ system of indirect primaries, it means the process of selecting candidates is done away from view of voters.
20 Jun 2017
Now that the price of crude oil has stubbornly refused to go back where Nigeria wants it, the realisation is slowly dawning that maybe things will be like this for a while.
6 Jun 2017
Since the APC government came into office 2 years ago, hardly a day goes by without some government minister or official reprimanding the public about the evils of importing goods that can be produced locally.
16 May 2017
Two stories in the papers in the last week ought to serve as a wake-up call to policy makers in Nigeria. They illustrate the challenges facing the Nigerian economy that are capable...
2 May 2017
I’m privileged to have received an advance copy and I’ll go out on a limb and say this is the most important book that will be written in and about Nigeria this year.
18 Apr 2017
Everything wrong with Lagos state government’s recent clearance of the riverside community, Otodo Gbame, can be summarised in one sentence - Nigeria does not know how to build houses cheaply.
4 Apr 2017
A few weeks ago, I was discussing with some friends and wondering why it is so hard to find pockets of excellence in Nigeria.
21 Mar 2017
World Bank also played an important role. They appealed to China to let them do a comprehensive country report. The Chinese reluctantly agreed and in 1983 (after 3 years of work), the World Bank presented a 1,000 page report to the Chinese government.
7 Mar 2017
A couple of weeks ago, the Central Bank of Nigeria provided an answer - a special rate of around N380 to $1 was created for those travelling abroad, paying foreign school fees or medical expenses. From now on, every Tuesday, the CBN will sell forex to banks for the purpose of meeting the demand that…
21 Feb 2017
There are very many things wrong with Nigeria’s federal budget in any given year. Generally, it is a work of fiction. But more specifically, it is usually built on alternative facts (optimistic assumptions about oil prices and production).....