Ahead of Nigeria’s upcoming elections, policy makers and the broad intelligentsia should give a thought to what kind of reforms they wish to demand from the country’s next administration; an expansion of Nigeria’s markets abroad would be beneficial, but an expansion of the consumption and disposable income of Nigerians for domestic or domesticated creative economy… Continue reading A universal basic income for all citizens should be the top demand in Nigeria’s coming elections
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AGBO FROM THE VEX: AGO IKINI – 24/05/2022
Scotland: England, Time to let Nicola’s people go
It is time for England to let Scotland go its own way if it votes to do so following a referendum, which a Labour government should guarantee. The union of the kingdoms of England, Scotland and Wales, not excluding the various duchies, are not threatened by electoral politics, they can be maintained as an economic… Continue reading Scotland: England, Time to let Nicola’s people go
On Labour
The central purpose of this polemic is not merely to describe the social conditions of our time, but to describe them with a view to mobilising action by labour and potentially allied parties towards the two central challenges of our age – ensuring that a decent future exists for future generations, halting the destruction of… Continue reading On Labour
Youth – A Poem – by Dami Ajayi
YOUTH (after King Sunny Ade) in a frothy spring of herbs In our youth, we sow our wild oats. Unlike the sower’s parable they all fell on loam & flourished & then there was a Cytotec. Existential angst & peregrinations are aubades of youth, the sing-song of mundanity versus warm random beds in Entebbe, Kigali… Continue reading Youth – A Poem – by Dami Ajayi
Multilaterals seek to mitigate Africa’s risk from Russo-Ukrainian War
“Global economic prospects have been severely set back,” largely due to the fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned in its latest outlook. Global growth for 2022 and 2023 is expected to be 3.6%, a downward revision from January estimates, and well below the 6.1% seen in 2021. Already… Continue reading Multilaterals seek to mitigate Africa’s risk from Russo-Ukrainian War
Business Brief: New deal for Simanodou: 8th April 2022
Guinea’s government has struck a deal with mining giant Rio Tinto and a Chinese-backed consortium to develop the Simandou iron ore deposit in the country’s south – thought to be the world’s largest of its kind with more than 4bn tonnes of high grade ore. The 35-year agreement includes $15bn of investment to build a… Continue reading Business Brief: New deal for Simanodou: 8th April 2022
In preference to Sub-Saharan Africa, the term, South of Sahara Africa is preferred – though the acronym, SSA remains the same.
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