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 wrongfully or misleading readers about the creation of the drug culture in Nigeria. In the first paragraph I made it clear that some will disagree with the content. There is a big distinction between the “drug culture” and “drug trafficking” in Nigeria; the former is local Nigerian addictive drug use and the latter concerns Nigeria as an “entrepôt” for international drug trafficking. Even if some assume they are the same thing, let us look at the Gowon and Babangida regimes and their impact on drug access more carefully and see where the blame for Nigeria’s drug culture lies. (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘Structural Adjustnment’
A Confirmation: Gowon and Babangida Created Nigeria’s Drug Culture
Posted: May 9, 2018 in Governance, Government, Institutions, Leadership, MarketsTags: Bernie Cornfeld, drug traficking, General Yakubu Gowon, Grimot Nane, Ibrahim Babangida, Latin America, luxury goods, Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, poverty, President Muhammadu Buhari, Structural Adjustnment
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Corruption in Nigeria: Is it Curable? Part Three
Posted: December 4, 2011 in Corruption, Governance, Government, Institutions, Markets, Power, Special Interest GroupsTags: Democracy in Nigeria, Grimot Nane, Military rule, neoliberalism, Political Economy of Nigeria, Structural Adjustnment
The Owners of Nigeria Technostructure
In Nigeria, there exists a non-market non-governmental extortionist technostructure that is nameless but for the purpose of convenience we shall call it the ONT (i.e. the Owners of Nigeria Technostructure). The ONT are somewhat implicated to exist in the works of many authors (Dudley 1982; Agbese 1990; Diamond 1991; Osoba 1993, 1996; Cayford 1996; Ake 1996; Ihonvbere 1996, 1999; Smith 2001; Oduyela 2004; Madichie 2005; Asobie 2006; Omotola 2006; Oarhe 2010). (more…)
