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. […]
What Is Government Of National Unity?
THE politicians are at it again. Winners and losers are coalescing into a platform called government of national unity, all to ensure they get value for themselves.
CBN – Laws ahead of people
WE are under the impression the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, makes its policies in the interest of the people. Our shock at the haste towards a cashless economy centres on this impression.
Museveni Keeps Reality At Bay
UGANDAN President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has won another six-year term to add to the 24 years he has been the country’s maximum ruler. Rioters are resisting him, but he lives above reality, boasting of new laws that will chain the opposition and deny bails to rioters. He claims he will not be forced out of office.
It’s Our Turn To Eat
GOVERNMENT of the people in power, for the people in power and for their powerful friends, may be another definition of democracy, if the peoples’ only place in government is to vote, for candidates of their choice.
Ministers Jonathan Needs
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan is at a crucial time in rummaging through the list of nominees from which he would choose 42, or so, Ministers. They would be the men and women to lead Nigeria through the critical processes to 2020, when Nigeria wants to be among the top 20 economies in the world.
