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Obiageli “Oby” Katryn Ezekwesili is an economic policy expert and senior economic adviser of the Africa Economic Development...

In this interview with WALE AKINSELURE, Professor Pat Utomi, a renowned economist and chieftain of the Labour Party (LP), speaks on the performance of his

Okonta writes that Professor Pat Utomi is faced with one of the most important challenges of his long public career with 2023

The chairman of the National Consultative Front and leader of the Shadow Government, Prof. Pat Utomi, has challenged Nigerians to wake up from their docility to reclaim their country

Our country is crippled. Our compatriots are being slaughtered like chickens all over the country. Insecurity has become the most interrogated phenomenon of our time and the result is clear for all to see. Food inflation is way over 20% and the people are starving because terrorists and bandits have made a visit to the farm grave risk to their lives. Meanwhile, tariffs and taxes are going up and incomes are collapsing even as inflation is rising and unemployment soars into record territory. Fun...

Femi Falana A group of eminent Nigerians, New Fabian Society of the Concerned Professionals, has called on religious, traditional and leaders of thought nationwide to partner for genuine change. In a release titled, ‘Time to raise the white flag’, signed by Prof. Pat Utomi, Prof. Anthony Kila, Femi Falana (SAN), Tola Mobolurin, Pastor Ituah Ighodalo, Dr. Usman Bugaje, Dr. Muiz Banire (SAN), Dr. Isawa Dogo, Joe Atueyi and Bisi Olowoyo, the body backed Prof. Wole Soyinka’s advocacy for exte...

ON THE GO PDP governors blow hot, describe attack on Ortom as ‘invitation to anarchy’ The People Democratic Party (PDP) governors forum has condemned the attack on the convoy of Samuel Ortom, Benue state governor.Advertisement The forum charged the federal government to secure the lives... ‘We’ll no longer condone violence’ — INEC talks tough ahead of Abia, Delta elections The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will no longer tolerate issues o...

BY PAT UTOMI If one lesson comes clear from 2020 it is that democracy is in deep crisis in Nigeria where questions abound about the state of the social compact between the people and those who lead and personify the state. Impunity seems so rife the youth mounted peaceful protests on police brutality and were greeted with bullets from the army; people feel the benefits of good governance are eluding them, with poverty so pervasive and insecurity so threatening; and anxiety prevails as Nigeria e...

Buhari’s Government Disregarded Sultan, National Assembly, Northern Elders’ Views On Insecurity – Falana, Utomi, Others They lamented that Nigeria’s democracy was in deep crisis and the social contract between the people and those in government was shaky. by SaharaReporters, New York Dec 31, 2020 A group of prominent Nigerians on Wednesday in Lagos said the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government dismissed and disregarded the views of the National Assembly, Northern Elders Forum, the ...

Nigeria’s democracy in deep crisis — Falana, Utomi, others On Kindly Share This Story: A group of prominent Nigerians, yesterday in Lagos, said Nigeria’s democracy was in deep crisis on the questions of the state of the social contract between the people and those in government. It also said Nigeria needed a few referendums at this time and that if government was accountable to the people it ought to consider this now. The prominent Nigerians, under the aegis of Concerned Professionals i...