Dele Sobowale

1 week ago | independent.ng | Dele Sobowale

“There are no desperate situations; only desperate men.”Joseph Goebbels, 1897-1945 Nigerian leaders in Abuja and at state levels are desperate; even if most Nigerians are not aware of it. The federal and state governments are going broke with each passing day. Meanwhile, ignorance is bliss. Most Nigerians go to bed without the vaguest idea about how their economy is being gradually demolished by the glut in the global crude oil market.

1 week ago | independent.ng | Dele Sobowale

“More Nigerians will become poor by 2027 – WORLD BANK” – VANGUARD, APRIL 25, 2025. Acute poverty is already fuelling the massive increase in all sorts of crime in Nigeria today. Predicting that more Nigerians will become poorer in 2027 amounts to passing a vote of no confidence in ALL the governments of Nigeria; not just the federal government. It is also a death sentences on several million citizens – because infant and maternal mortalities rise with poverty.

2 weeks ago | independent.ng | Dele Sobowale

“New NNPCL boss targets 3m barrels per day, $60bn investment by 2030.”PUNCH, April 18, 2025. Just when you think the Nigerian State cannot possibly appoint an official who will turn a minor disaster into a major calamity, you are soon convinced of your mistake. I thought it was the best decision of the Tunubu government was made when Mele Kyari, the former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, GMD-NNPCL, was sacked.

2 weeks ago | independent.ng | Dele Sobowale

“There are no desperate situations; only desperate men [and women and children]. – Josef Goebbels, 1897-1945. Adolf Hitler’s Chief of Propaganda, during the last hundred days of the fall of Hitler’s Third Reich, was the man saddled with the task of broadcasting frequently fake news about the war situation to the German people – who already knew the war was lost – despite their government’s attempt to deceive them.

3 weeks ago | independent.ng | Dele Sobowale

“DISCO hiked my bill from N2.7m to N29m.” Lagos Deputy Governor. The report in the PUNCH of April 15, 2025, provided the best opportunity for all stakeholders to re-visit the matter of privatisation of electricity supply to Nigerian consumers. Put bluntly, Nigeria’s Distribution Companies have become the greatest fraudsters in the country – far eclipsing the millions of the Yahoo boys and girls, as well as, the operators of Ponzi schemes in the trillions of illegal funds they rake it daily.