Pat Utomi

Prof Utomi
Symbol of law and justice

Dele Farotimi: Saving The Law In Nigeria

I have not read Dele Farotimi’s book that seems to have stirred the hornet’s nest. Nor am I likely to read it soon. And this has nothing to do with how I feel about Dele or the subject he explored. With the
December 14, 2024
Tanzania To Impose Digital Tax On Big Global Tech Firms Soonest

Much Ado About Tax Reforms

When I do my quick sweep of WhatsApp group platforms I am looking to see trending issues worth the pause for a read. Recently I found the Tax Reform package going through the National Assembly trending. But I was reluctant to give
November 24, 2024
How Community Policing Can Solve Nigeria’s Internal Security Problem - Utomi

The Danger Of Stupid Idiots

Before I get badgered by those unwilling to read or lacking in the discipline to digest concepts let me announce upfront that no insults are intended by either the title or the message below. But I have seen enough of the rush
September 8, 2024
When Democracy Fumble and Tumble

Saving Our Dysfunctional Federation 

(Remarks to Diaspora group stylized from a chapter in forthcoming Book: How Politics Impoverished Nigeria) Starting out with faith in Federalism as the best form of political organisational structure for plural societies, to maintain unity in diversity, Nigeria’s post-colonial journey has
July 21, 2024
As Famine Looms

As Famine Looms

The trauma of a faltering economy on many, resulting in suicides and dramatic protests, finally indicates our crisis of now is an existential one. Can politics now give way to truth and let thinking take front row in how we face our
July 11, 2024
Economic Crisis: Nigeria Has No Option Than To Produce For Food Security, Forex Stability - Utomi

Can’t Laugh And Can’t Cry

It’s raining pain in Nigeria. You may not be able to tell from the motorcades and foreign travel of the powerful but you can feel it in every brush with the people, even the middle class whose incomes have been eroded by
June 4, 2024

The Labours Of Healing A Nation

Each call from a journalist to discuss the ‘crisis’ in the Labour Party makes me feel the crisis of the elite in Nigeria is so advanced people are unable to recognize the difference between storms in teacups and hurricanes
April 20, 2024
Activating The Production Revolution AND Nigeria’s Renewal

Tribute To Obidients As Patriots, By Pat Utomi

Two years ago the word did not exist and even the most fertile imagination could not conjure the movement it gave form. But patriots were at their wits end. The economy was hiccuping, insecurity was galloping, social and political tensions were practising
February 25, 2024

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