Ideas and agenda for economic growth and human development in sub-saharan Africa
One of the reasons why Nigeria is still backward is not entirely blamable to corruption. The lack of governance models. And a large swathe of the citizenry, even the supposedly educated ones do not help those in need of comprehension, in understanding that salient truth about modelling. Maybe that’s due to not having a good…
The web and media are abuzz with Ebola these days. A westerner gets infected and all media outlets provide wide coverage on all the details. But we all know the epicentre of it, Africa. According to the World Health Organization the death toll has surpassed the 4000 mark. But Ebola is nothing new is it?…
According to official statistics obtained from the Nigerian National Bureau of Statistics, and reported by the world bank in its 2013 “Nigeria Economic Report“, Nigeria’s economy is acclaimed as one of the fastest growing in the world. Over the past decade, the country has averaged a GDP growth of 8%. To put this in context,…
Nigeria, with an estimated population of 175 million people, is the most populous country in Africa, and about 50% of the population live in the rural areas. The total land area is 911,000sq.km, and about 80% of this is available for various agricultural purposes, including arable land, permanent crops, pastures, and irrigated land. Food…
Africa remains the zone of turmoil and the world’s poorest inhabited continent. It is a place blessed with every type of mineral resources, including coltan used in mobile phones, copper, forming 75% of the brass casings of allied shells fired at Passchendaele and the Somme in the WW1, uranium for the nuclear bombs dropped on…
I have deliberately refrained from the use of the phrase ‘political consciousness’ for two main reasons. One, because politics is associated, especially in country like Nigeria, with corruption and reckless looting of the commonwealth, attended by impunity and callous abuse of power. As such, people who wish to be associated with higher virtue, often spurred…
Today I had two persons in a group I belong raising concerns and making inquiries, on separate threads, about what should be our attitudes to partisan politics. The first question addressed the worry that this group, and the members thereof, can become an instrument for the self-interest of aspirants or holders of poltiical office. The second…