“Without such a retrospect a people will live in a crude present, and, having no buttress from the past, will fare badly from the rough winds of life” – John Buchan The rough winds of life, the crude present of lost opportunities, disappointed hopes and shattered dreams which are the everyday experiences of many Nigerians, have marked […]

“Nigeria faces serious environmental challenges, including deforestation, desertification, coastal erosion, flooding, pollution and many other negative impacts of climate change. Lake Chad continues to shrink every year. These issues threaten the livelihoods of millions of Nigerians”— PIresident Bola Ahmed Tinubu. In this final installment in the series of articles on the Lake Chad, it is […]

“There is nothing which contributes more to the making of our undertakings prosperous than the taking of times and opportunities; for time carries with it the seasons of opportunities of business. If you let them slip, all your designs are rendered unsuccessful”. The time has come and the opportunity is available for the problem of the Lake […]

“The right perspective asserts itself” -E. D. Morel The corridors of governments in Africa are littered with the frag ments of abandoned policies and the debris of aborted projects. Existential projects like water transfers do not readily find acceptance either because they seem too costly or are inherently long-term in nature, thus, liable to be […]

“The Lake Chad Basin is an important source of fresh water on which more than 40  million people in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Niger and Nigeria depend.” -African Review of Business and Technology, 26th February, 2018 The international dimension of saving Lake Chad has seen the commitment of various actors to this singular […]