The phone rang at late noon and the caller was my colleague, the indefatigable nationalist, Prince Anthony Momoh. It was at an hour unexpected because Tony takes calls and rings at night. Without waiting for the usual collegial exchanges, he asked; “Where is Jabso?” Jabso is Chief Ajibade Fasina-Thomas, whose pen name in sports commentary…
The Politics of Privatisation of Refineries
After several years of tinkering with privatisation of the nation’s ailing refineries, the government yields to pressure again to put the process on hold, creating room for more years of rot in the oil sector Investors who are prospecting for Nigeria’s moribund refineries may have to wait for a longer time for inexplicable reasons. In…