File: Kehinde Olaosebikan

For years, my position has been clear: take the burden of education and health off the masses, and you would have solved over 50% of poverty in Nigeria.

Many parents today are hypertensive not because of genetics but because of fear. Fear of school fees. Fear of hospital bills. Fear of “what happens to my children.”

That is why the model of Chief Obafemi Awolowo remains the most productive blueprint for governance in a developing economy like ours.

Awolowo’s 4-Cardinal Programme: