Nigeria: The Empire That Never Was… Will It Ever Be?
Nigeria: The Empire That Never Was… Will It Ever Be? Sir John Glubb’s enduring claim to fame, perhaps among other things, is an essay. His essay, “The Fate of Empires…
Institutions
To Cook a Continent: A Review and a Comment
To Cook a Continent: A Review and a Comment REVIEW: To Cook a Continent: Destructive Extraction and Climate Crisis in Africa is yet another book about Africa’s exploitation but with…
Michal Lyons, Academic Extraordinaire (1950 – 2013)
. Michal Lyons, Academic Extraordinaire (b. Nov 1950 Israel; d. Mar 2013 London, England) Michal Lyons was a professor of urban studies at London South Bank University (LSBU). Trained as…
Corruption in Nigeria: Is it Curable? Part Four
The Evolution of Banditry in Nigeria: Markets, Independence, Oil Boom and Settlement Years The two most obvious periods of steep rises in corruption in independent Nigeria were the oil boom…
Corruption in Nigeria: Is it Curable? Part Three
The Owners of Nigeria Technostructure In Nigeria, there exists a non-market non-governmental extortionist technostructure that is nameless, but for convenience, we shall call it the ONT (i.e. the Owners of…
Corruption in Nigeria: Is It Curable? Part Two
Contrary Institutions: A Brief Description Why is it that institutional reform as touted by the international and local anti-corruption industries always fails in tackling the problem of corruption in Nigeria…