Fulani Herdsmen & the British Legacy of Guilt “Guilt by community association” (GBCA) is back in Nigeria in fresh form in 2018. Not by the actions of a foreign colonialist. But those of the local Nigerian auto-colonialists courtesy Fulani herdsmen affairs. In the colonial state of Nigeria, under British rule,…
Category: Governance
![Restructuring: Derivation or Ownership? 2](https://grimotnanezine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/flag-g913102dc0_1920-e1639119003686-compress-compress.jpg)
Restructuring: Derivation or Ownership 2
Restructuring: Derivation or Ownership 2: Questions & Answers. “Federalism” and “restructuring” and related terms are all political jargon. It means they are not so easy to understand by non-specialists and are widely appreciated by assumption, not fact. Nigeria is a federal republic that practices federalism on paper. But is a…
![Restructuring: Derivation or Ownership? 2](https://grimotnanezine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/flag-g913102dc0_1920-e1639119003686-compress-compress.jpg)
Restructuring: Derivation or Ownership
Restructuring: Derivation or Ownership “Restructuring”; its meaning is debatable, and for many, it is about oil, resource control. Surprisingly, many see resource control as the receipt of an increased top-up percentage of “derivation” by oil-producing states from oil revenues issued by the federal government (FG) as fiscal allocations. Where is…
![Ayittey Benchmark: Performance of Presidents](https://grimotnanezine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/PMB-compress-compress.jpg)
Ayittey Benchmark: Performance of Presidents
Ayittey Benchmark: Performance of Presidents. How else do you measure it? There are many able Nigerian analysts, commentators, pundits, academics and journalists who have rightfully earned a say in the Nigerian political arena. Most are insincere. Some swing. But a few are truthful in their evaluations of the state of…
![“Blame or Claim” Governance: Buhari's Only Hope](https://grimotnanezine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/PMB2-compress-compress.jpg)
“Blame or Claim” Governance: Buhari’s Only Hope
“Blame or Claim” Governance: Buhari’s Only Hope There is an insightful article for those interested in governance by Taiwo Makinde titled Problems of Policy Implementation in Developing Nations: The Nigerian Experience. In the paper, the Makinde explains quite persuasively why policy implementation in Nigeria routinely fails with successive governments. He implicates, among…
![A Confirmation: Gowon and Babangida Created Nigeria’s Drug Culture](https://grimotnanezine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/drugs1-compress-compress.jpg)
Gowon & Babangida: Nigeria’s Drug Culture 2
Gowon & Babangida: Nigeria’s Drug Culture 2 I reject the claim the article titled Gowon and Babangida Created Nigeria’s Drug Culture, which I wrote is guilty of appropriating unnecessary blame to Gowon and Babangida as wrongful. And misleading readers about creating the drug culture in Nigeria. In the first paragraph, I clarified…
![Gowon and Babangida Created Nigeria’s Drug Culture](https://grimotnanezine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/drugs2-compress-compress.jpg)
Gowon and Babangida: Nigeria’s Drug Culture
Gowon and Babangida Created Nigeria’s Drug Culture Access to drugs policies have been most responsible for either a rise or decline in the demography of drug addicts in Nigeria. A controversial thing the Obasanjo military government did in 1976/77 was to ban several goods, including controlled substances, into Nigeria. This…
![The Portrait of a Nigerian Druggie Youth](https://grimotnanezine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/sapele-drugs.jpg)
The Portrait of a Nigerian Druggie Youth
The Portrait of a Nigerian Druggie Youth Inspect the photograph. In the photograph, you can see the portrait of a young teenager in a blue T-shirt (the Boy in blue) attempting to light up a reefer. His peers surround him, eager for him to do it because if he does,…
![Sapele's Youth Drug Addiction Epidemic](https://grimotnanezine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Sapele-Drugs-1-compress-compress.jpg)
Sapele’s Youth Drug Addiction Epidemic
Sapele’s Youth Drug Addiction Epidemic: It is alarming. One must wonder what happened to a once genial and hope-filled town called Sapele. It was a youth’s town and youngsters had much promise and bright futures. Well… According to a competent and concerned eyewitness Ejorheya Brighoademo, a governance professional and works…
![Buhari Should Sell the Nigerian Youth as Slaves](https://grimotnanezine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/youth-slaves-buhari-compress-compress.jpg)
Buhari Should Sell Nigerian Youths As Slaves
Buhari Should Sell Nigerian Youths As Slaves President Buhari, like many past Nigerian heads of state, is living proof of why slavery flourished along the coast of West Africa a few centuries ago. The Europeans, Americans and others nurture, support and encourage their youth. That is they could build the…