CHIBOK A Crime against Nigeria Humanity

Legal Eagles
May Mbu-Agbamuche
may.mbu@thisdaylive.com


In the last five years Nigeria has witnessed an extremist insurgency that has persistently and steadily shaken the very foundations of our country. From the attack on the Emir of Kano Alhaji Ado Bayero, to the killing of General Shua, the bombing of the UN building in Abuja and most recently the Nyanya bomb blasts and, more harrowing yet, the abduction of over 200 school girls from a secondary school in Chibok, Borno State.

One thing is certain we are faced with an extremely well-funded and highly organised terrorist group. On 15th April 2012, while I was in Kano a bomb went off at the New Road motor park. Upon further enquiry we were told that it was merely a fake bomb planted by rival bus companies .It was however a stark warning of atrocities to come that was ignored because exactly a year later another bomb went off at the same park with hordes of people set to travel by night gruesomely killed when over 5 luxurious buses were burnt to ashes. Similar attacks occurred just three weeks ago at the Nyanya bus station, Abuja killing 75 and last week a suicide attack took place at Karshi taxi park, barely 100 metres from the site of the Nyanya bomb blast.

The kidnapping of more than 200 girls from the secondary school in Chibok has elicited unbelievable passions throughout the country, effectively uniting with Nigerians against terrorism. The fact that there is no clue as to their whereabouts has made this act a shattering and egregious nightmare. The school was closed down for four weeks as a result of security threats only for the students to be recalled to write their final examinations when insurgents struck and abducted them. When the insurgents arrived at the school the girls, we are told, had tried to hide but were lured into seven vehicles, seemingly provided to rescue them by the insurgents disguised in army uniforms, who then drove them into the forest.

What baffles one is the fact that Senators from Borno State who had valuable information on what transpired and of the movement of the girls were said to have informed security agencies, yet nothing appears to have been done with this intelligence. Indeed intelligence gathering and the capacity to react promptly are of critical importance in matters of this nature. Although we can only imagine the operational challenges facing our military, it will be worthy of note to investigate the state and numbers of helicopters, weapons and equipment available to these forces. Also, though a state of emergency was declared in the affected states this has not yielded any tangible solution to these attacks and therefore it has really not achieved the desired result.

The Presidency, the National Assembly and the Governors are all united in the quest to find a lasting solution to the security problems facing the country. Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili, former World Bank Vice-President, led about 1000 women in a demonstration against the Federal Government’s poor and inadequate response to the Chibok kidnappings. The Multi-National Joint Task Force set up to fight terrorism and the menace of Boko Haram no doubt has been working extremely hard within their limitations to curb this insurgency but one thing I noticed is that every time they announce a breakthrough against these terrorists, the terrorists in turn respond by taking their atrocities to yet another level, leaving us all bewildered each time. This is a clear indication that the challenges before the Joint Task Force are enormous and the calls for new and better strategies are in order. Foreign support should also not be ruled out as we need help urgently and we must be honest enough to own up to this fact.

Terrorism has become a major threat to some African countries and it is spreading. The time has therefore come for greater collaboration between neighboring states to fight this scourge. We have all the laws in place to successfully join forces: In 2009, a bilateral agreement was signed between Nigeria and the Republic of Chad with emphasis on security and trans-border relations. The aim was to enhance collaboration between the military, customs and immigration among others, to check trans-border crimes and manage refugee problems etc. Nigeria has also signed a bilateral agreement with Niger, with the primary purpose to provide mutual military support and for the security of both nations’ common borders.

With these bilateral agreements in place, Cameroun, Chad, Niger and Nigeria must unite against terrorism and work assiduously to enhance security at their existing borders. The African Union and ECOWAS must also rise to support the fight against terrorism in Africa. Additionally, further commitment from the United Nations will be required to ensure that violence against children is seen as a crime against humanity and suitably eradicated, globally.

Most importantly, a collaboration with the international community primarily the United States of America because of its extensive satellite coverage of the continent and France with its heavy presence in neighboring francophone countries and the United Kingdom, with its historic ties and willingness to contribute, will likely be required for us finally and definitively to quell this scourge of terrorism

ThisDay

US: Kidnapped Girls Taken out of Nigeria

Zacheaus Somorin in Berlin with agency reports

The United States said yesterday that it is concerned that many of the 276 schoolgirls kidnapped in northern Nigeria three weeks ago have been moved out of the country.

State Department spokeswoman, Marie Harf, shared Washington's assessment after local officials in Northeastern told AFP that the girls had likely been taken to nearby Chad or Cameroon.

The Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, has claimed responsibility for taking the girls from school, and its leader, Abubakar Shekau, declared his plan to sell them as slaves in a video released Monday.

"Many of them have likely been moved out of the country to neighboring countries," Harf said, responding to reporters' questions as news of the abduction began to climb up the world news agenda.

Harf said Washington provides Nigeria with "counter-terrorism assistance" in the form of intelligence sharing and was standing by to assist "in any way we think that is appropriate."

ThisDay

Edo APC splits as chieftains, appointees, dump party

Former National Vice Chairman, South South, of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, and a number of political office holders in the government of Governor Adams Oshiomhole were among some chieftains of the All Progressives’ Congress who announced the withdrawal of their membership from the APC on Monday in Benin.

Others, who announced their withdrawal from the APC were the  pioneer chairman of ACN in Edo State, Prince Tony Omoaghe; Edo North Senatorial District leader of the party, Alhaji Usman Shagadi; Special Adviser to Governor Adams Oshiomhole on Project Monitoring, Mr Osaretin Edosomwan; the Director of the Poverty Alleviation Agency, Mrs Evelyn (Omokhodion) Igbafe; a former member of the Edo State House of Assembly, Etiosa Ogbeiwi and a host of others.

Spokesperson of the group, Prince Tony Omoaghe, who read  a  communiqué  issued at the end of a press briefing in Benin, hinged their withdrawal from the APC on the expiration of an ultimatum given Governor Adams Oshiomhole to cancel the APC membership registration exercise as well as the ward and local government congresses that were conducted in the state.

“The ultimatum has since expired. Governor Admas Oshiomhole has not complied with our requests. He did not show good faith. All that we witnessed were attempt to woo aggrieved members of the party individually by offering them Greek gifts.

“No efforts were made to redress the flawed membership registration exercise and the congresses. Nothing has been heard from the appeal panel set up to deal with complaints arising from the sham congresses.

“Instead of dealing with the issues, the Governor chose to tell the people on May 1st, 2014, during the celebration of Labour Day that the reason his party members were challenging him was because he promised to hand over to a fellow labour leader.

“We cannot continue like this. There must be an end to the Governor’s naked show of power, which we daily witness in the affairs of the party and indeed in the governance of Edo State,” Omoaghe said.

Meanwhile, in a statement issued by the party’s interim state publicity secretary, Comrade Godwin Erhahon, the party likened the withdrawal of the group to the removal of a cancerous tumor that had plagued the body.

He said, “It was Ize-Iyamu who tried to force the governor to manipulate the process to his favour. He has been too economical with the truth when he told the public that it was the governor who manipulated it.

“We would not have bothered to react, but because he bears the title of a pastor, it is interesting that his group which claims to be a progressive body has retrogressed in 2014 to swallow their vomit against PDP and Chief Anenih in 2005. We want to assure PDP that what they have inherited is an ailment and not a blessing.”

PointblankNews

The World Economic ‘Fraud’ For Africa

By Emmanuel Onwubiko
The Coordinating minister for the Nigerian Economy and the minister of Finance Mrs. [Dr] Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is a woman known for her reported famed passion for the revival of the economy of the country that has gone comatose over the last several decades of mismanagement of the nation’s commonwealth by government officials at different levels.

Since her second coming courtesy of the current President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the chief driver of Nigeria’s economy and the minister of Finance has enjoyed favorable media coverage no thanks to her team of media managers who always carry along the different finance correspondents of the national private or public media houses. There is hardly any month that has passed without these private journalists that covers the activities of the Finance ministry in Abuja traveling to international meetings funded b the publicly run ministry of Finance.  The Finance Ministry has tried although unsuccessfully to win the hearts ad souls of some leaders of the civil society groups. Twice the ministry of Finance staged public forum for the civil society groups but has failed to sustain this interface because of perceived lack of interest from most of the leaders of the organized civil society groups to buy in into the programs of the ministry of Finance.

The Finance minister’s international contacts have always come in handy with friendly global media coverage and a regime of generous international awards given that she spent considerable amount of time working in one of the strategic Bretton wood institutions- The World Bank where she rose to become the Managing Director before she assumed the political position of minister of Finance in 2011 when the current federal administration won a popular poll.

Few days back, the minister of Finance jetted out to Washington DC accompanied by a retinue of her close aides and other media correspondents that cover her official functions and the purpose of that trip is to receive the 2014 award from Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential persons in the World [whatever that means]. In this year’s version, Nigeria got two nominations in the sense that the richest black person in the World and the Nigerian born Aliko Dangote also received the award alongside the Nigerian minister of Finance.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala who was accompanied to the United States by a strong team of media practitioners, was widely photographed in front pages of some major privately owned Nigerian newspapers smiling away as she received the award even as the Rich Nigerian entrepreneur Alhaji Aliko Dangote was accompanied by his daughter- the beautiful Miss. Halima Aliko Dangote. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, it must be recalled was also closely accompanied by her handsome supportive husband and a United States based Surgeon- Professor Ikemba Iweala.

The Finance Minister has dashed back to Abuja in time to join the Nigerian Federal Government officials to host the international community and other World leaders that have accepted invitation from the World Economic Forum for Africa to attend the colorful event scheduled to hold in Abuja from Wednesday 7th May 2014 which will end on Friday. But already  Abuja is currently on lock down by security forces following the unprecedented security challenge posed by the campaign of terror by the armed terrorists Islamic. fundamentalists- Boko Haram.

The Nigerian President said he ordered the total closure of all government offices and schools during the period of the World Economic Forum so the participants can have easy access to and fro the venue of this events which is the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in the Central Business District of the nation’s capital. Criticisms have trailed this blanket security measures from a cross section of Nigerians including persons who were usually supportive of Government’s anti-terror campaign.

These critics say the ill -advised decision of the central government to close down the nation’s political capital for fear of attacks y the dreaded armed Islamic extremists meant that the Federal Government has capitulated to the deluge of threats issued by the hierarchy of the armed Islamic rebels and therefore amounts to a surrender which means that the Federal Government has indeed handed over symbolic and psychological victory to these mass murderers who had only recently detonated series of bombs in the densely populated suburban Nyanya town very close to Abuja municipality and successfully kidnapped into sexual slavery almost three hundred secondary school girls from the Government Secondary School in Chibok community in Borno state..

One of these critics stated that the decision of the Federal Government to close the city just so that it can host the World Economic Forum remains a sad commentary to international investors that the nation may not really be stable since the government can easily without the slightest long term notice close down government offices and even order private businesses to similarly close their offices. This panicky decision is said to be against the campaign by government to attract foreign direct investors to invest in the local economy of the country in order to help create sustainable jobs for Nigerian youth.

Now the questions that will logically follow this government’s hasty decision are as follows: What happens to some of these government and private offices located within these affected areas in the central business district of Abuja if they had hitherto entered into binding contractual agreements that will mature within the period under lockdown? Who takes responsibility and/or liability for any losses that may be occasioned by this sudden closure of business premises on the orders of the Federal Government just for the sake of hosting the World Economic Forum that will clearly not positively affect these privately owned businesses?  Another question is why Government can not work out other measures of hosting these meetings in safe venues outside of the business district of Abuja or is the government saying it has no alternative venues that it can muster security apparatus of he nation to ensure that the hosting of these events succeed wherever the government choses outside of the center of Abuja?

Still on the aspects of preparations for the hosting of these events that have already occasioned strong inconveniences to a lot of Nigerians, the managers of the World Economic Forum said the 24th edition of this conference under the theme: ‘ forging inclusive Growth, Creating jobs’ will host over 1000 leaders from politics, business and civil society.

The Nigerian Newspaper- Thisday had on Sunday May 4th 2014 stated in the editorial comment that; “Every year, after the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum for Africa serves as a  regional platform to distil key issues and outline concrete and actionable steps towards improving the socio economic lives of the people of the continent. It is arguably the most prestigious congregation of private sector executives, World leaders and academics which gather to discuss ideas towards stimulating and sustaining Africa’s growth”.

Thisday newspaper whose owner is closely linked to the current government affirmed that the thematic issue of the World Economic Forum for Africa corresponds with the Federal Government of Nigeria’s short term, medium and long term aspirations and commitments.

But critics say this forum is only but a public relations gambit for the current government which has come under increasing attacks by rebellious forces bent on scuttling any political ambition that the current President has to vie for a second and final tenure in next year’s general election.  I accept that the current President has the constitutional right to seek to be elected for a second and final four year tenure during the coming elections.

But these critics say the events could be classified as the Word Economic Fraud for Africa since there is really no pragmatic and empirical scientific and economic data and statistical evidence of how the previous sessions of these talk shops have helped to advance the economic fortunes of African societies. It is believed in some quarters that the World Economic Forum is an extension of the pro-Euro/American financial institutions of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

Those who hold this view also believe that the spirit behind the World Economic Forum are some private forces supported actively by the Bretton Wood institutions to further widen the interest of the Western developed societies to keep subjugating the developing societies to the whims and caprices of these World Powers that always play games that serve the public national and economic  interest of their respective countries.

Now if the World Economic Forum is a Geneva based non-profit organization why is the Nigerian Government committing so much public fund to host this carnival with no clear deliverables for the nation’s economy? Why is the Federal Government of Nigeria shutting the political capital of the country just so that it can organize series of events anchored by an independent and private non-profit body? How many foreign direct investors has this World Economic Forum for Africa attracted for the respective host nations on the black African continents over the years given that the forthcoming version is the 24th? Is this forum not a mere jamboree that will not succeed in creating any inclusive growth and create any sustainable jobs for the millions of job seeking youths of Nigeria? Why is the World Economic Forum that would be hosted by Nigeria be such an expensive venture so much so that one of Nigeria’s biggest and most obscenely expensive hotels-Hilton Hotel in Abuja embarked on expansive reconstruction works around the facilities to upgrade them to comply with global best practices at the cost of the Nigeria government?  Something is definitely fishy with this World Economic Forum for Africa taking place in Abuja which is not owned by the Nigerian people who are completely excluded from attending and also made to suffer series of human rights breaches including the violations of their fundamental rights to freedom of movement and association.  Even such big government offices like t Revenue Mobilization Allocation and fiscal commission has not been invited to attend.

Is this World Economic Forum for Africa another extension of one of those high profile secret meetings of some powerful cult groups based in Europe with membership among political and economic elites of Africa?

Is it any wonder then that a lot of Nigerians I have interviewed prior to this event calls it World Economic Fraud for Africa?

PointblankNews

Goodbye to Enemies of Progress

Glory be to God, the cabal that has constituted cancerous tumor in the body of All Progressives Congress (APC) today yielded to our fervent prayers as they melted out of our body, painlessly.
The group which changed its name from Grace Group to Alaghodaro after they rebelled against Chief Anenih Leadership in PDP since 2005 is returning to PDPretrogressively to swallow their vomit because APC could no longer tolerate their desperation.
We wish to assure the good people of Edo State that the exit of the group from APC which is spending state fund to develop the state and defection to PDP where they shared state fund without development from 1999-2008, will enable Comrade Governor Adams Oshiomhole to further develop Edo State.
Whereas it was the Ize-Iyamu group that wanted the Comrade Governor to manipulate APC congresses for him, they now claim that it was the governor that manipulated.
We challenge them to prove their strength by going to a party without structure rather than going to PDP where food is ready.
We salute the courage of Governor Oshiomhole in resisting the desperate attempt by the group to manipulate him.
We sympathize with Chief Tony Omoaghe an established factional leader who condescended so low as to return to his estranged master who harbours unforgivable charges against him. May God rescue him from the lions den into which hunger has chased him.
APC reassures the good people of Edo State that the exit of this retrogressive group is a blessing to the party and the good people of Edo State.

Comrade Godwin Erhahon
State Interim Publicity Secretary

Nigerians Must Resist Jonathan’s Nascent Dictatorship’

TAIWO OGUNMOLA

The Education Rights Campaign (ERC) has called on Nigerians to rise against President Jonathan’s nascent dictatorship.
This call was contained by the Publicity Secretary of ERC, Mr. Hassan Soweto in a statement he issued yesterday.
ERC also condemned the attack on members of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic (ASUP), Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU), ERC as well as students under the aegis of the National Association of Polytechnic Students (NAPS) by members of the Nigeria Police.
He said: “The police descended on the protesters like wild beasts and attacked them with water cannons, baton and teargas, the same police and security forces, who have failed to rein in the dreaded Boko Haram.”
While engaged in this shameless act, the Police were totally unmindful of the age and status of the protesters, who are lecturers of polytechnics and Colleges of Education. Some of the protesters sustained injuries in the process.
“A lecturer was hit in the stomach by a teargas canister shot deliberately into an orderly crowd of the nation’s citizens by policemen obeying the orders of a failed government.
“The same police and security forces, who have failed to rein in the dreaded Boko Haram and under whose nose Nigerians daily lose their lives in regular acts of criminality. The same police and security forces under whose nose over 200 girls disappeared and several weeks after there whereabout is still unknown”.
ERC therefore called on the labour movement, civil society and indeed all Nigerians with a conscience to rise up and vigorously condemn the brutal assault.
“This is crucial because this development, taken together with all the previous undemocratic actions taken by this government, clearly shows that President Jonathan’s anti-poor government is fast turning into a vicious civilian dictatorship.
“We also call on NLC and TUC to withdraw any invitation they might have extended to President Goodluck Jonathan to attend or speak at this year’s May Day ceremony because it will amount to a slap on the face of workers if the President, who ordered such a vicious attacks on ASUP and COEASU members and other protesters is now seated among Nigerian workers on May Day”, it added.
It would be recalled that ASUP has been on strike for 10 months cumulatively, while COEASU has been on strike for 3 months. And the major cause of the strike is gross underfunding of public education and non-implementation of agreements with both unions.
Leadership

Nigeria’s economic transition reveals deep structural distortions – By Zainab Usman

According to recently reviewed GDP figures, Nigeria is now Africa’s biggest economy. It was about time a more accurate measure of economic output, which captures Nigerians’ entrepreneurial zeal, was adopted. The headline-capturing highlights of the new series reveal the scale of the economy, and greater economic diversification with the rapid growth of non-oil sectors. Significantly, the figures indicate how this growth accounts for the “jobless” economic expansion, the slow pace of industrial development and the regional dimensions of the economic boom.
According to the rebased figures, six sectors now account for 70% of nominal GDP rather than three in the old series. The service sector grew fastest, by 240%, and is progressively constituting a larger portion of the GDP. Conversely, the share of the two hitherto giants – agriculture and oil has fallen to 21% and 14.4% respectively. Nigeria is transiting to a services-driven economy due to the rapid growth of information and communications technology (ICT), banking, trade and the informal economy.
Zenith Bank, UBA and Guaranty Trust Bank are Nigerian financial institutions with a huge presence across the continent. Mobile phone subscription has exploded from just 2.2 million lines in 2002 to over 169 million by 2013. Call credit vendors, petty traders and other unofficial activities in the informal economy have also been included in the new series, as a component of the services sector.
On the surface, the emergence of the service sector as a major growth driver indicates a greater diversification of the country’s production structure away from oil (a long sought after goal). The share of the oil and gas sector has fallen from 32.4% of GDP in the old series to just 14.4% in the new series. On one hand this is good news, on the other hand, it reveals deeper structural distortions. Nigeria appears to be leap-frogging from an extractive to a services-oriented economy without commensurate industrial development, and this comes with some baggage. This slow pace of industrialisation accounts for the non-inclusive nature of growth and widening inequality in the country.
The necessity to experience industrialisation as a phase in the economic development process from a poor to a rich society is well documented. The Economist and Foreign Policy magazines both recently hosted debates on the necessity of industrialisation for sub-Saharan African economies. Economist Ha-Joon Chang points out categorically that “…it is a fantasy to think that developing countries can skip industrialisation and build prosperity on the basis of service industries”.
Multilateral organisations such as the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the African Union are advocating for inclusive and sustainable industrial development as the key to structural economic transformation of African economies. This is hinged on the export-oriented-industrialisation (EOI) route taken by South Korea, Singapore and other East Asian Tigers to economic development and prosperity.
Industrialisation is regarded as the surest route to poverty reduction and economic transformation. With the labour intensive nature of manufacturing industry, the share of people engaged in subsistence agriculture falls as those engaged in agro-processing, light and heavy manufacturing and ancillary services rises. Economists argue that industrial development creates employment along a value chain, raises incomes, and improves human development. As Dani Rodrik emphasises, the manufacturing sector is where the world’s middle classes take shape and grow; without a vibrant manufacturing base, societies tend to be more unequal.
In Nigeria, as the new GDP series reveals, this industrialisation process is yet to take root. The manufacturing sector, which was 10% of GDP in 1980, constitutes only 6.9% in the revised figures. By contrast, the over 200-fold growth in ICT, trade and financial services means that the service sector now constitutes 52.3% of economic output. Unlike the manufacturing sector, which employs low-skilled, low-wage labour, these services are highly capital and technology intensive.
Entry-level staff in banks in the country require a minimum of a tertiary qualification. While the mobile tech start-up revolution sweeping across the commercial capital Lagos, is dominated by tech-savvy entrepreneurs with a highly specialised skill set. Therefore, the mobile revolution hasn’t led to an explosion of job opportunities, as youth unemployment persists at 54%. A stark reminder of the unemployment situation is the recent  recruitment exercise of the immigration service, in which 6.5 million Nigerians applied for 4,000 jobs and where 19 people were crushed to death at stampedes at the recruitment centres.
At the other end of the scale, the telecoms sector is creating a booming informal economy of call credit vendors, informal call centres and other microenterprises with limited scope for upward mobility.
Though the GDP series involve macro-level aggregate data, some inferences about regional distribution of economic activity can be made. While agricultural output has increased, it has grown much more slowly than the capital, technology and skills intensive services sector. Agriculture’s decline as a share of GDP has more implications in the northern states, where it dominates.
Critically, the diminishing share of agriculture as a percentage of GDP, which should indicate economic development in an industrialising economy, is not the case here. Hundreds of textile, food and beverage and other light manufacturing industries lie moribund in industrial hubs in Kaduna and Kano states. Electricity shortages, infrastructural decay and influx of cheap Chinese imports and smuggled consumer goods are some of the factors attributed to the acceleration of de-industrialisation in the North. Tellingly, farmers are not leaving their farmlands in villages to become factory workers in modern industries, but are urbanising in the fringes and becoming an underclass in the vast unofficial activities in the informal sector.
Although some states like Kano have a vibrant trade-based economy (and the ‘Kannywood’ local entertainment sector is booming), economic output in the northern states is mostly agrarian. On the other hand, the services sector – banks, telecoms, hospitality, trade – are mostly concentrated in the South. Of the 21 commercial banks in the country, only one is owned by and headquartered in the North.
Even in the South, Lagos and to a lesser extent, the four major oil-producing states, account for the bulk of economic output. Lagos, where most banks, financial institutions, telecoms firms, oil companies and other private sector organisations are headquartered could be Africa’s fifth largest economy, if it were a separate country. As an outlier, it is the only self-sufficient state out of 35 others, able to generate over 50% of its revenues from internal sources more than its monthly allocations from the centre.
Conclusions about the regional dimension of economic growth can only be made with certainty when the state-level GDP figures are released by the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Yet we can deduce from the new series as to why Nigeria’s economic boom is not only non-inclusive, but geographically concentrated, in which many northern states lag behind.
As expected, these figures are being politicised by both the government – which has adopted a triumphalist attitude and implicitly claims credit – and sceptical Nigerians, who are worried about the ‘jobless growth’ and poor human development situation. Both sides miss the point about the purpose of the rebasing exercise, which is mainly to provide a more accurate picture of the economy. Thankfully, the NBS has dispassionately emphasised that “the rebasing exercise does not in itself reflect the effectiveness or otherwise of public policy”.
The onus now lies on policy makers to address these structural economic problems head on, not merely to politicise them. The government has recently launched an industrial policy, an Agricultural Transformation Agenda, and has privatised the power sector. With Nigeria’s staggering size, its booming population and its equally staggering problems, there is certainly scope for doing much more.
Zainab Usman is a DPhil Candidate at the University of Oxford.
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