Abstract The report provides a comparative study of the impact of Asian companies on the two leading oil producing countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Nigeria and Angola. The report shows that Asian companies that gained a foothold in the Nigerian oil sector in return for their commitments to invest in downstream and infrastructure projects failed to… Read More »
A high-profile government amnesty program aimed at stopping militants in Nigeria’s oil-rich delta region from bombing pipelines is coming under fire for not seeking permanent solutions to the area’s underlying problems. Continue reading at the Wall Street Journal website.
Last year I wrote this post about e-waste, toxins and cancer; today I read this editorial from the Daily Trust: The World Customs Organization (WCO) recently expressed concern over the indiscriminate and incessant dumping of used electronic gadgets in Nigeria. The organization said that the gadgets emanated mostly from Europe and such products had been… Read More »
From Vanguard: Nigeria’s excess crude account has dropped from $20 billion (N3.004 trillion) at the beginning of the year to $11.2 billion (N1.646trn) in June. This implies that in the last six months, the various tiers of government in the federation have shared a total of $9bn (N1.323tr) from that account. This use of the… Read More »
Remember Hernando De Soto’s assertion in The Mystery of Capital that success in capitalism is tied to the structure of property and property rights? Seems like someone in the Nigerian government has been reading the book. In ThisDay of today: The Federal Government yesterday said the ongoing land reforms process is intended to launch the large… Read More »
So, it seems that smuggling is being discussed in Nigeria these days (my research is partly on the informal trade in second-hand clothing between Benin and Nigeria so I am really interested in this). Really, when a country has this list [pdf] of prohibited items what is to be expected? The Comptroller of Customs in-charge… Read More »
What does it take to earn 65,000 naira ($436) a month from the Nigerian government? From Next website: Lucky Ararile, chief coordinator of the Amnesty Implementation Committee has disclosed that about 10, 000 militants in the Niger Delta region may take advantage of the federal government’s offer of amnesty. Speaking at a news conference on… Read More »
I now write a weekly column called Anthropologically Speaking for Nigeria’s BusinessDay newspaper. I am not sure that it is already on their website, but if you are in Nigeria you can check it out every Tuesday…. I will post the link when I am sure.
Have you seen this editorial from The Nigerian Guardian? See an excerpt: Africans have a right to say ‘no’ to a movement whose ultimate outcome will be the destruction of the family. Homosexuals are claiming that men can marry themselves. If everyone followed their example, would they have even been born? Looking at the debate,… Read More »
Nneoma of Pyoowata and I have started a blog review – NigeriansTalk. It is going to be a weekly review of blog posts on Nigeria/ blogs from Nigerians. From the introductory post: NigeriansTalk is a weekly review of posts written by bloggers of Nigerian extraction, bloggers living in Nigeria and bloggers who blog about Nigeria.… Read More »