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, […]
Lest we forget
BRITISH politician, John Bright, now late, once wrote of Abraham Lincoln in the Cincinnati Gazette: “He was like a waiter in a large eating house where all the bells are ringing at once; he cannot serve them all at once and so some grumblers are to be expected”.
Remembering Gen. Tsiga
ERSTWHILE Director – General of NYSC, Brig. Gen. MI Tsiga, rtd, along with other prominent Nigerians, was honoured with the highest membership status by the Nigeria Institute of Management, NIM, on Monday, September 26, 2011. He was awarded the Fellow of the institute, the first NYSC DG to be so awarded.
Edo and the World Bank’s endorsement
“What is good coming to Edo State is that every time we come, something new is happening, there is progress not in terms of report but in terms of development” –Onno Ruhl, Country Director, World Bank.
The cultural shocks of colonialism
MY father once sent me on an errand to a professor’s office. That day, I was in an exceptionally good mood because I was with a friend who had managed to get the car keys from his father. With a car at our disposal, we were to cruise around town, visiting friends and checking out girls.
Mimiko: A new paradigm shift
Over the years, one of the disturbing concerns of the 21st century especially in Nigeria is finding and nurturing purposeful leaders for socio-political and economic advancement.
