Nigeria provides a classic case of a developing country where despite the presence of a wide institutional infrastructure for producing trained manpower, generating new knowledge and providing science and technology services, the industry became increasingly dependent on foreign technologies…
As Nigeria limps towards its 48th year as an ‘independent nation’, I hope I can inspire many patriots, many talkers, many writers and most constructive thinkers that they too can find a way to flourish with their ideas…
Obaigbena and his editors, in their infinite wisdom, have concluded that two representatives of American market fundamentalism are in the most auspicious position to perorate on “the challenges of Nigeria’s policy and market environment”. If we are lucky, the two Americans may even “proffer solutions” to our market challenges…
The Nigerian intelligence agencies must resolve to do a better job of protecting our vital interests. As things are, our boundaries, airports, seaports and waterways are not well-manned…
“Because Nigeria is a large market, the US stands to gain a lot from production activities tailored towards Nigeria, whereas Nigeria does not have the same opportunity to trade massively in the American market…” – Dele Ashiru
Even if our governments are not the only ones that are bad, they have ranked low for decades on most international comparisons of corruption, state failure, red tape, lawlessness and dictatorship…
Since Prof. Nwosu released the result of the June 12, 1993, whilst launching his book, what has happened and what have we learnt from that episode and those events? What were the teachings and lessons of that unfortunate historical annulment?
It is true that Nigerians as a people have a far way to go to achieve the fluid identity that we associate with the Americans or Russians, but it is also not true that Nigerians have not developed a distinct, common identity in their hundred plus years in one form of union or the other…
Has anyone ever wondered what the ‘second’ democratically elected presidents of Nigeria and South Africa had seen in their deputies that motivated them to make overt efforts to prevent their deputies from ascending to the presidential seat after their second tenure?
It is instructive to state that the life and times of Masaba and his current travails epitomise the inherent contradictions in the Nigerian state. One is left perplexed by the manifold contradictions and distortions…
Nigeria’s long suffering people are all too frequently caught in the crossfire of rampaging wars, millions afflicted with diseases, preyed upon by greedy despots and prevented by corrupt leaders and bureaucracies in a kleptocracy from obtaining basic schooling, medical attention, and any semblance of economic opportunities…