How Leadership Fails Nigeria Hope for good governance and good leadership in Nigeria seems to be an increasingly distant confidence. What happens if the leadership does not take the citizenry forward, along the paths of development? Growth and flourishing in the country will either stagnate or regress backwards, both in…
Category: Ecocide
2017: “Saint Buhari” and More Economic Stagnation
The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing basically wrong with the Nigerian character. There is nothing wrong with the Nigerian land or climate or water or air or anything else – Chinua Achebe In the year 2017, Nigeria’s economy is predictably going…
Can Buhari Win The Oil War?
Can Buhari Win The Oil War? The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) may not be a praiseworthy entity to many but their emergence and defiance have provided a thorough and incisive diagnosis of the dissembling cohesion of the nation-state called Nigeria. Nigeria has never been a thoroughgoing republic but simply a geographical…
Corruption
Nigerian Pretexts: Nuclear Power
Nigerian Pretexts: Nuclear Power Anytime you hear that a new great ‘developmental project’ is being planned and undertaken by the Government of Nigeria (GON), it is important to identify who the short, medium and long term beneficiaries and losers created will be. Consultants, contractors, traditional land-owners, traditional rulers, government officials,…
Corruption
Niger Delta Clean-Up for Profiteers?
Niger Delta Clean-Up for Profiteers? It has been announced by the Buhari Administration that the heinous cumulative oil pollution in the Niger Delta will be cleaned-up; this is very good news. The clean-up is a recommendation by the 2011 UNEP report (i.e. four years ago). Why it took so long…
Fame and Prize Winners: Wole Soyinka and Nnimmo Bassey
Wole Soyinka is famed for winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986 based on his significant contributions to poetry and drama. Though his award was highly controversial and the Nobel Committee’s ‘choice’ felbious, Soyinka won the prize anyway, deservedly. He was the first African to win the prize. There are…
Nuclear Power in Nigeria? Another Crazy ‘Pole Vault’
Nuclear Power in Nigeria? Another Crazy ‘Pole Vault’ For many years the Government of Nigeria seems to be managed by a class of “capability pole vaulters”. Government officials tend ‘pole vault’ the nation into many projects they lack the capability, will or wherewithal to execute or sustain effectively. The latest…
Corruption
End of Oil, Beginning of Prosperity: Nigeria
End of Oil, Beginning of Prosperity: Nigeria One inexplicable phenomenon among Nigerians is their response to the news that Nigeria’s oil is facing a demise as a major export commodity. That would be “The End of Oil.” It is a distressing reality to grapple with for some in one category…
Corruption
The Ontology of the African V: The Exploitation & The Blindness
The ontology of the African is an emergent creature of exploitation, historical and contemporary. It started with slavery and colonisation. The late Dr Abdul Rahim Tajudeen, former head of the Pan-African Movement, was a fierce opponent of do-gooding foreign aid and charity. To him, when the African adopts the attitudes…
Ecocide
Benzene Holocaust in the Niger Delta?
Benzene Holocaust in the Niger Delta? The Niger Delta is a top “ecocide hotspot” on planet Earth. Minor and massive oil spillages are frequent and ubiquitous in the Niger Delta, around seven thousand of them. These spillages cause untold pollution and ecocide with highly devastating impacts on the lives and…
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