The Kernel

Wealth, ritualists and human parts sellers

with Adebolu Arowolo, 08171143579, bolurowolo@yahoo.co.uk The stagnant real sector and mounting unemployment in the land is driving many more Nigerians to seek evil and desperate means to get out of poverty. As more seek help from Churches and Mosques, many more now troop to herbalists, false prophets...

Poverty and the booming baby factories

with Adebolu Arowolo, 08171143579, bolurowolo@yahoo.co.uk Even goats, fowls and other lower animals cherish and protect their young ones. But it is shocking that the Nigerian woman has descended into a level of depravity that allows many to sell their babies. More and more teenage girls now allow...

Bitter politics: Between Dokubo and Aliyu

with Adebolu Arowolo, 08171143579, bolurowolo@yahoo.co.uk  Nigeria is no doubt at war with itself. Violence stalks the land like never before. Precious human blood is being spilled and splattered everywhere. Scores are killed on a daily basis. And as the Giant of Africa remains prostrate on life support...

Let’s go back to issue-based politics

Adebolu Arowolo, 08171143579, bolurowolo@yahoo.co.uk Political contests in Nigeria often pose severe threats to the nation’s fragile peace and stability, always degenerating into battlefield situations where lives and property are lost. The 2015 election is not likely to be significantly different from the ones before it. War drums...

Let’s go back to issue-based politics

with Adebolu Arowolo, 08171143579, bolurowolo@yahoo.co.uk Political contests in Nigeria often pose severe threats to the nation’s fragile peace and stability, always degenerating into battlefield situations where lives and property are lost. The 2015 election is not likely to be significantly different from the ones before it. War...

Bamigbetan: Don’t allow abduction in Yoruba land

Bamigbetan: Don’t allow abduction in Yoruba land With Adebolu Arowole, SMS: 08171143579, Email: bolurowolo@yahoo.co.uk   I salute Frederick Fasehun and members of the O’odua Peoples Congress for their quick response to the unfortunate kidnapping of our friend and former colleague, Mr. Kehinde Kolade Bamigbetan. As the sad news of the Ejigbo Council Development...

Boko Haram amnesty is a road to nowhere

With Adebolu Arowolo, bolurowolo@yahoo.co.uk   A spokesman of the violent Islamist sect, Boko Haram, who spoke recently on the Hausa service of the BBC under the name Abu Dardan said clearly that the group could not accept the amnesty offered by President Goodluck Jonathan because of...

Arrest this descent into anarchy

Arrest this descent into anarchy It is a huge irony that as Nigeria  prepares to roll out drums to celebrate 100 years of amalgamation, fierce centrifugal forces are assailing this fragile nation threatening to tear it apart. Instability has assumed a new frightening level. This atmosphere of insecurity and despair...

Petrol to sell for N200 per litre?

By Adebolu Arowolo President Goodluck Jonathan is flying a kite of another petrol price hike that must be instantly shot down. At a recent economic summit in Lagos, Jonathan said he still had some subsidy to remove and then mouthed the usual silly and unacceptable...

Air crashes and fruitless probes

The whole purpose of every investigation and research is to take positive lessons from happenings and avoid past mistakes. The use of research results and recommendations has helped humans to overcome obstacles and make living more tolerable. This is not so for us as a...

The oil-dependent economy is in trouble again

The oil-dependent economy is in trouble again There are barrels of trouble again for the beleaguered economy. As executive-legislative bickering rages over the 2013 budget and the President continues to withhold his signature, the major benchmarks and underpinnings of the fiscal plan are being rapidly put asunder by unsavory developments in the...

Thanking Keshi for his lesson in self-reliance

By Adebolu Arowolo, 08171143579, bolurowolo@yahoo.co.uk A happy and grateful nation has showered honour and gifts on the Stephen Keshi-coached Super Eagles for restoring our national pride and renewing our sense of unity by winning the 2013 African Cup of Nations. We are all still celebrating our conquest...

New path to a peaceful change

With Adebolu Arowolo, 08171143579, bolurowolo@yahoo.co.uk Since the return of democracy in 1999 economic development has stagnated and the distribution of national wealth has been non-inclusive, leading to mass poverty, general discontent and rising wave of insecurity. The so-called dividends of democracy have eluded large sections of the...

RMAFC’s largesse and the ailing economy

By Adebolu Arowolo, 08171143579, bolurowolo@yahoo.co.uk At the heart of the nation’s perpetually ailing economy and non-inclusive growth is a huge and escalating cost of governance that has always gulped the lion’s share of every budget since 1999, leaving too little for development projects and the welfare...

Importing 100 large scale rice mills

By Adebolu Arowolo, 08171143579, bolurowolo@yahoo.co.uk The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, comes along as a bright star in an otherwise lackluster cabinet. His words, facts and figures at his finger tips, portray him as a man who has a penetrating vision of where...