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2 weeks ago | 
allafrica.com | Dele Sobowale
opinion"Capital is a coward: it flees from wherever there is turbulence."Time managementFor almost ten years, the idea has been disturbing my mind that perhaps the time has come in Nigeria when governments at all levels must consider security as an economic variable. Right now, Nigerians, in and out of government remain the only people in any large economy who have not accepted that time is a vital resource - as valuable as capital and labour.
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2 weeks ago | 
independent.ng | Dele Sobowale
Capital is a coward; it flees from wherever there is turbulence.” Time Management For almost ten years, the idea has been disturbing my mind that perhaps the time has come in Nigeria when governments at all levels must consider security as an economic variable. Right now, Nigerians, in and out of government remain the only people in any large economy who have not accepted that time is a vital resource – as valuable as capital and labour.
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2 weeks ago | 
independent.ng | Dele Sobowale
“If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.” – US President, Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865. I address you as “my brother” not because you are Yoruba and Ijebu; but because you are a Nigerian. As a stubbornly non-party member, I remain non-partisan. Politicians can play their games as they always do – deceive, decamp, destroy, defraud – but my neutrality is unassailable.
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3 weeks ago | 
independent.ng | Dele Sobowale
“$3bn refinery fraud: N80bn found in sacked MD’s account.” Report, May 3, 2025. There is probably no adult Nigerian alive who was shocked or surprised by the news report. It was a tragedy waiting to unfold. That the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, would be probed was never in doubt. The question was not if; but when a President would be patriotic enough to probe the most corrupt organisation in Nigeria.
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3 weeks ago | 
independent.ng | Dele Sobowale
“We must therefore not shirk from accusing our friends, or praising our enemies, nor need we be afraid of praising or blaming the same people at different times; since, it is impossible that the men [and women] who are engaged in public affairs should always be right; and unlikely they should always be in the wrong.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
