Has Nigeria’s indigenous industrialisation policy failed?
By Moshood Oshunfurewa This symptom has fully emerged. Nigeria’s indigenous industrialisation policy has failed. This failure is not the product of any single policy misstep but the systematic collapse of a six-decade-old structural architecture. This is a consequence of energy costs that devour manufacturing margins, foreign exchange controls that choke off access to production inputs, […]
Concerns over payment of $100m consultancy/contract fees
CONCERNS are being raised that President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive for the payment of consultancy fees/judgment debts to contractors and lawyers as they relate to the $350Miilion Paris/London Club refund for states and local governments may be under threat based on the moves by the Nigeria Governors Forum to sway the office of the Attorney General and Minister of Justice to unblock some suspicious accounts where the remaining $100M for the settlement of the contractors and consultants have been traced.
On the path to Nigeria’s re-birth
THE economic and political development of every country depends largely on the ability of its leadership to make use of the best brains devoid of parochial sentiments. It is on that premise that Nigeria can be rescued from its multi-faceted quagmire.
Ugwuanyi’s rising profile
AHEAD of 2019 general election, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has continued to receive overwhelming support from the people of the state both at home and abroad. The support, which comes in form of endorsements, commendations and awards from various people, groups and institutions, has continued to gather momentum daily.
The ominous silence on herdsmen
The lull is explainable by the nearness of the February 19, 2019 presidential election
Revamping Akwa Ibom State economy: The Nsima Ekere Model
AKWA IBOM STATE is unarguably one state in Nigeria with the prospect of economic fortune. With about five million population matched with the enviable status of the highest oil-and-gas-producing state in Nigeria, economic prosperity should be the lot of the people and the state. But socio-economic matrices of the state do not correlate with the abundance of natural mineral, agricultural and aquaculture resources.
