Dr. Adetolu Ademujimi

  Happy Workers’ Day. I congratulate Federal public servants for the approved increase in their salary structures announced by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led administration yesterday 30 th April, 2024. However, I am inclined to wish that the subnational units of government have similar and respective financial capacities to raise the earnings of State public servants. I’m talking about a sincere & intentional structural review of the constitutional empowerments (or not) of State governments (or not) to earn revenues to meet their obligations to residents. Just before we criticize many States for not paying any minimum wage negotiated by the national office of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and its allies with the Federal government, let’s be dispassionate to consider an age-long phrase - Fiscal Federalism , or a synonym of it -  Lucrative Liberalism, which  I coined few years back as I reflected on a better way to communicate this cogent subject in a country with a dysfuncti

  It is likely to be seen as an April fools’ day message to announce today, the restoration of public power to residents of some Local Government Areas (LGAs) in the Southern senatorial district of Ondo State, who haven’t experienced electrical power from the national grid but their personal generators & solar systems, over the past ten years. Imagine that a ten-year old child born within those LGAs has never seen electrical power from the national grid. Imagine spending the greater part of the past forty-something years of my existence on earth in a perpetually dark and energy-less country. You know for sure that we all grew up chorusing “ Up NEPA ” with my family members whenever the defunct National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) restored power supply. Yet, the hospital, office and my computer – three workspaces that have defined my clinical, public health and writing & innovation careers for about two decades, cannot be deployed for productivity without electricity. Yet,