Niger Delta development beyond summits
The Niger Delta’s enormous natural endowment should have made it a prosperous region. Instead, poverty, unemployment, environmental degradation and deficient public services remain widespread. This contradiction gives Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s intervention at the Niger Delta Economic and Investment Summit in Port Harcourt an urgency that must not be lost after the glamour of the ceremonies. […]
CBN – We Need To Know
THE most strident argument Central Bank of Nigeria makes for its autonomy – best international practices – is also one of the weakest points, if it is to convince Nigerians it has a right to supervise itself.
Jonathan Long On Assurances
THE effort of producing the May 29 presidential address dripped through every line. President Goodluck Jonathan wanted Nigerians to know how hard he had worked in the past year though many think he hardly worked.
Ministry Of Nothing Affairs
POLITICIANS patronise tokenism. They have easy solutions for challenges, no matter how deeply rooted they may be. The attitude is to get obstacles out of the way, even if they re-surface.
May 29 – Just Believe
NIGERIANS like debates. If you ask, some of them would tell you that it is the most tangible dividend of democracy. There are still debates about what dividends of democracy mean and whether it is only civilians, who can deliver these dividends.
National robbers, thieves, rogues
NIGERIANS scorn scandals. They have seen enough that nothing is new. When former President Olusegun Obasanjo said most legislators were “rogues and armed robbers,” no outrage was expected.
