The nation’s major sea port of Apapa and Tin Can Island are critically endangered.
This new danger does not arise as a result of militants’ action, but due to lack of constructive reasoning, planning and execution of sensitive projects, necessary for Apapa and Tin Can Island Ports to function effectively.

Taylor had crept into public consciousness when in 1989 he began a civil war in Liberia, his home country against the blood-thirsty, corrupt, inept and cannibalistic dictatorship of General Samuel Doe.

Nobody faults Your Excellency’s chagrin at the Atlas Cove Jetty “affront” and the resultant strong call on the Niger Delta armed groups not to bring “war” into your area of security -jurisdiction. As Chief Security Officer of Lagos State (though this is a mere empty appellation without the concomitant executive powers that you would have in a true federation!) you probably did not see how else you could justify the oath you took to serve the people of Lagos aright.

In last week’s column, I confessed that I often feel like a square peg in a round hole in this country because I feel that I don’t have a typical Naija mindset.

However, SAP’s shock treatment appeared more drastic than the patient could well tolerate – massive doses of devaluation which disgraced the Naira; tough credit squeeze which reduced profitable investment and income policy that affected effective domestic demand.