It has been a couple of years since I posted regularly on this blog. You know how it is with life. A lot has happened, and I have been busy.
There is a new president, but the issues remain the same.
I hope to restart regular commentary.
There is much to talk about.
I am embedding Sunny Okosuns 1980s hit "Which Way Nigeria". It is interesting that he references mistakes make during the 1970s Oil Boom, considering the mistakes we made during the 2000s Oil Boom.
It is also interesting that President Buhari is back for a second stint as Nigeria's Head of State. His first tenure, beginning in 1983, was separated from President Obasanjo's first tenure by a 4-year administration led by a lifelong civilian who took office as the 1970s Oil Boom ended and the emerging global economic environment of the 1980s turned problematic for Nigeria. Decades later, their respective second tenures in the Fourth Republic were separated 8 years, and two lifelong civilians who took over from Obasanjo just as the 2000s Oil Boom ended and the global environment of the 2010s turned problematic for Nigeria.
Many things have changed in our economy, notably telephony and the internet, but fundamentally nothing of real significance has changed.
Add to this a political system that never answered any of the questions raised in the 1950s, opting instead to recycle the same questions tediously without solution. Back then, they worried about which Region was to produce the Prime Minister. Today, the argument is over which "geopolitical zone" should produce the presidents (and which senatorial zone is to produce the governor), with little or no discussion of anything that can be termed an issue of importance or substance. Let us be honest with ourselves; everyone who has served as president in the Fourth Republic did so based on "geopolitical zone" calculations, and not because they ever did or said anything that would lead anyone to think that they understood our problems much less had deduced a solution to any of the problems.
Anyway, enjoy the late Sunny Okosuns (RIP) singing "Which Way Nigeria".
