Nigeria: In the Long Run, We Are All Dead

23 January 2017
opinion

One of the finest economic thinkers the world ever saw, John Maynard Keynes, succinctly submitted, and I concur, that "The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead ". You wouldn't need to consult any oracle to reveal the realities of our current affairs when we have as good indicators a pocket and a stomach.

There is hunger in the land, people are getting disillusioned, the future seems bleak but yet you and I are urged by 'constituted authority' , to hold unto a thin thread of faith that tomorrow will be better. Forgive my scepticism of promises emanating from The Aso Villa, but like TY Danjuma sagaciously argued, when a crusader is deficient of integrity, who will believe his gospel.

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