When you take a critical look at the composition of the present administration at the federal level, the only place you can find youths is in the National Assembly. There are no youths in the cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari… Read More ›
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Nigeria’s Biggest Problem
Many people talk about the problems militating against Nigeria’s progress and in doing so they list out corruption, a bad economy, terrorism or crime. In my opinion, Nigeria’s biggest problem is not corruption, a bad economy, terrorism or crime. These… Read More ›
Buy Naija To Grow The Naira
Many Nigerians are complaining about the constant fall in the value of the naira and they blame the government. But is the government really to blame? In truth, our insatiable appetite for all things foreign is to blame. No nation… Read More ›
Wailing on the Economy
I love to read books and that habit means I frequent bookshops a lot. However, since I resumed duties as a Senator, I have not had as much spare time as I used to have so rather than buy in… Read More ›
When an Election Becomes an Execution!
Since Friday the 4th of December, 2015, I have been in Bayelsa to vote and monitor the vote in what I thought was a gubernatorial election, but what I saw on Saturday the 5th of December was not an election,… Read More ›
Five Thousand Naira is Possible
One of the best policies I have ever come across in Nigeria’s electioneering history is the promised policy of the All Progressive Congress (APC) to pay the sum of N5,000 monthly as Job Seekers Allowance for unemployed Nigerian youths. It… Read More ›
Integrating the Fulani into Modern Day Nigeria
It will shock Nigerians to know that more people have died as a result of Fulani/indigene clashes in the last half a decade than have died from terrorist activity occasioned by the Boko Haram terrorist sect. As horrific as individual… Read More ›
Tame Fuel Subsidy or it Will Tame Nigeria
If the whole idea of fuel subsidy is to pass on benefits to the poor, then we must all agree that it is not working. The benefits are going to importers of fuel, oil majors and upper and middle class… Read More ›
We Need More Brain Infrastructure!
All the conspiracy theories about the Boko Haram uprising collapse when you consider the data painstakingly acquired by the Africa Health, Human & Social Development Information Service (Afri-Dev). I was just going through the data the other day and my… Read More ›
A Third Alternative to PDP and APC
Months after the 2015 elections ended, Nigerian youths are still hung up on those elections. Nowhere is this more obvious than on social media which our youths have turned to a battle ground divided into pro People Democratic Party (PDP)… Read More ›
Ben Murray-Bruce 