Articles by Omoniyi Osadare

This is primarily an economics column. But I plead with my gentle readers to forebear with me as I go on a personal detour. There was, uhmm, a storm in a tea cup the other […]

Matthew Aremu Okikiola Olusegun Obasanjo – one man, one name, one destiny; complicated personality. For the Yoruba, names hold special meanings and are categorised into five, namely: Oruko Amutorunwa (predestined names), Oruko Abiso (acquired names), […]

Many have wondered why Imo State is the unemployment centre of the nation. They have argued that it means that the government in Imo State, over the years, has done a more terrible job than […]

The World Health Organisation in 2002 provided an expansive definition of sexual violence as “any sexual act, attempt to obtain a sexual act, unwanted sexual comments or advances or acts of traffic, or otherwise directed […]

This pestilence madly buffeting our attempts to escape from the morass of underdevelopment despite our endowment with natural and human resources cannot be abandoned to the mountebanks to fix. We cannot entrust a cat to […]

“Government Subsidy systems promote inefficiency in production and efficiency in coercion and subservience while penalizing efficiency in production and inefficiency in predation” – Murray Rothbard (1926-1995) “You either get free stuff or you get freedom. […]

Determined to alleviate poverty among member states, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) commission has donated 3,999 tonnes of grains to the Federal Government with commitment to salvage over 7 million people currently […]

At the ripe old age of 11, when people are typically most concerned with videogames, action figures and the onset of pubescence, I had a different set of, externally enforced, concerns. Born into a religious […]

Violent crisis of ethnic and religious complexion does not just happen. It grows relentlessly like cancer and metastasises until irreversible fatality. Some of the bloodiest riots in Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa have been spawned […]

There are very many reasons to celebrate our country just as there are also very many awful things we wish our country would have addressed or never have done. I would have been happy to […]

A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, who was sacked from office over allegations that he misappropriated funds, Babachir Lawal, tells HINDI LIVINUS that the party risks losing the next presidential election if […]

The increasing climate emergency is greatly impacting food production and food supply chains and further fueling global hunger. Given the severity of food insecurity globally, and particularly across sub-Saharan Africa, particularly since the outbreak of […]

The Nigerian federation system is based on a three-tier system made up of the Federal Government, 36 state governments and 774 local governments. The 1999 Federal Constitution of Nigeria, Section 77(1) stipulates that: the system […]

Dear Aunty Temilolu, I am a student of the University of Lagos and currently studying Accounting. I have been looking for someone to confide in but couldn’t trust anyone around for fear of criticisms. I […]