THE South Africa President, Cyril  Ramaphosa, was in Abuja earlier, this month (July 2018), to participate in the 25th  anniversary and annual General meeting of the African Export Import Bank (Afreximbank). Ramaphosa, used the opportunity to call on Nigeria, not to delay signing the agreement for the African Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA).

THE report quoted the Vice President’s spokesman, Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr Laolu Akande, as saying that “the roadshow is designed to showcase the continued improvement in Nigeria’s business environment to entrepreneurs, investors in American cities.” If you believe that you will believe anything. The Vice President of Nigeria is embarking on a needless jamboree. The only beneficiaries will be those collecting estacodes to go on that trip. The improvements in Nigeria business environment are purely figments of the VP’s imagination given what global economic and financial experts have to say about economic management under Buhari.

Beyond the noise of the political class claiming they had done or are doing wonderfully well in governance, giving themselves pass mark and even writing falsehood as history, Nigerians need to collectively demand for basic governance

The businesses that made Apapa popular have died. Many houses in Apapa have become empty and the new occupants are now aliens from other African countries who ride ‘okada’ and peddle death on daily basis

Several economic policy inconsistencies characterize the Nigerian economic management which have the total effect of making planning for more than a few months hazardous at best and worthless at worst