66 years on, Nigeria must escape the fragility trap, by Olu Fasan
How fragile is Nigeria? That is one question Nigerian leaders don’t want to confront. Indeed, it irks them when anyone says that Nigeria is a fragile state. What’s more, some Nigerians, out of sheer romantic or sentimental patriotism hate it when the word “fragility” is used to describe Nigeria. It is unpatriotic, they reckon, for […]
FIFA not new to scandals
Allegations of corruption against FIFA are not new. One of the major ones was against Sepp Blatter in 1998 during his campaign for the FIFA presidency. He was, along with his godfather, the departing FIFA President Joao Havelange, accused of bribing delegates to the FIFA Congress to vote for Blatter who wriggled out of the morass with claims that the money was federations to develop the game.
Problems of our underdevelopment
IN his own analysis of why Nigeria has been crawling annoyingly while it should be running fast after Independence, President Jonathan saw the failure of leadership as the greatest obstacle to the desired growth – political and economic.
Corruption update
TRANSPARENCY International (TI) is a civil society organisation that spearheads the fight against the dubious practices that jeopardise the welfare of the poor all over the world and prevent so many countries from fulfilling their potential.
Jonathan on “sovereign confab”
AGAIN, I am taking President Goodluck Jonathan to task over a pronouncement by him on a major political issue.
Chile: Uses of adversity
AS far back as August 1600, William Shakespeare, in one of his best comedies, As You Like It, had reasoned clearly: “Sweet are the uses of adversity, which like the toad, ugly and venomous; wears yet a precious jewel on its head…”.
