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THE IMPLICATION OF COVID-19 ON SELF-RESETTLED IDPs IN NIGERIAN CITIES
The coronavirus which first broke out in Wuhan, China was officially announced as a global pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2020. The impact of this outbreak globally as of 1 of July 2020, suggests that there … Continue reading
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Tagged COVID19, Internal Displacement, Migration, Refugees Crisis, Urbanization
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Nigeria-Decides-2019: Why Nigerians will Vote Against President Buhari and for Atiku Abubakar
“For Africa to succeed, Nigeria must succeed and more importantly, if Nigeria fails the world is in trouble”. ~ Tony Blair, 2003 One of the key areas which Nigeria must do well as a key example to rest of Africa … Continue reading
Posted in #Corruption, #Unemployment, Africa, Democracy, Democracy and Politics, Development, Development and Economic growth, Economic Growth, Governance, Nigeria Election, Sustainable Development Goals
Tagged #Corruption, Atiku Abubakar, Central Bank of Nigeria, China, Economic Policy, Economic Recession, NigeriaDecides2019, President Buhari
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Reducing Inequalities in Nigeria by 2030: SDG Challenges and Way Forward
Nigeria has a shared broad role in shaping out Agenda 2030, its explosive population makes it even more imperative. The Nation’s National Development Target must reflect the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). In theory, Nigeria’s commitment to the SDGs is sensible, however, in practice, there is little or no evidence to support the notion that the government is serious about achieving these goals. By all indications, there is no reason to believe that Nigeria will make any progress on the SDG. The Oxfam International Commitment to Reducing Inequality (CRI, 2018) ranks Nigeria 157 of 188 countries in the world. In accessing the commitment to reduce vulnerabilities, this report found no indicators of positive efforts by the government to mitigate the growing risk. Continue reading
The Nigerian Middle-class Everyone Should Worry About
Recently, a Ph.D. candidate friend came to Lagos on field assignment for research work; studying the trends of migration in Nigeria with the specific focus on migration rate, the location of choice and the class and profession of migrants. I … Continue reading
The Intricacies of Buhari’s False Economy
In 2016 when the Buhari led administration embarked on the currency swap deal with China it was obvious that China, had the upper hand and this was doomed to failure at inception. The currency swap was never a deal for … Continue reading
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Slave Trade in Libya like the Deaths in Medditterian Sea is Caused by the African Governments
The horrifying reports brought to light by the CNN film crew who secretly filmed actions of humans being auctioned as a slave in Libya two weeks ago has created an uproar globally; causing shocks and condemnations. Majority of the slaves … Continue reading
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Tagged #Africa, #Unemployment, Guinea, Italy, Libya, Nigeria, poverty, Slave Trade
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Nigeria’s Political Economy & the Implication for Sustainable Development
The 2006 British White paper on good governance opens with a bold assumption, stating that good governance is about good politics, period! That good governance is predetermined by the nature of politics (good or bad). Politics is central to reducing service delivery as it shapes and influences policy making. In other words, politics determines who gets what. Furthermore, underlying politics are elites who fund campaigns; making money the most essential tool in politics. Continue reading
Is Nigeria Still in A Recession? Versus Reality
The economy contracted 1.5% consistently quarterly in 2016, based on the latest economic revision, Nigeria is no longer recessing, and is actually on the way to recovery and growth. However, as we know, a number of temporary factors including the … Continue reading
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Obession With Fighting Corruption Is Where Buhari is Getting It Wrong
The Buhari led-administration campaigned and won election purely on the basis of fighting and or setting the precedence on reducing corruption in Nigeria. The challenges with Buhari’s understanding of tackling corruption is the assumption that corruption is a tangible that … Continue reading
Nigeria’s Lack of Economic Recovery Plan
Nigeria’s bid to secure international bailout loans to fund the 2017 budget deficit has hit a deadlock because the economic team is yet to submit the economic recovery plan as requested by the World Bank and African Development Bank. The … Continue reading
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Tagged #Corruption, AfDB, Budget2017, Eurobonds, Nigeria, President Buhari, WorldBank
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The North-East Crisis In Nigeria
As sanity and peace returns to the Boko-haram war-torn zones of Nigeria’s north-east. In the wake of recovery in these states is intense famine arising alongside all other components that accompany longer term displacements.
These states, as well as the federal government, seem helpless while people; Nigerian citizens are dying daily of preventable health challenges and hunger. According to Medicins Sans Frontieres, 6 children die daily in Bama, Borno state IDP camp. Continue reading
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Tagged Adamawa, Bama, Boko Haram, Borno, Hunger, IDP, Medicins San Frontieres, Nigeria, NorthEastNigeria, NorthEastNigeriaCrisis, UNHCR
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Is Nigeria Cursed or Just Incapable Of Better Policies?
“The worse decisions a fragile economy like Nigeria with no concrete evidence of why it grows other than its population size can make is price fixing and market control” Rebecca Enobong Roberts, 2016 🙂 In September, African Development Bank (AfDB) … Continue reading
Five Reasons Why Buhari’s Unemployment Benefit Won’t Work
In the usual Nigerian politics manner of making idealistic promises during election campaigns and going back on it after the win, president Buhari or the ruling party APC (depending on personal understanding of who said what and what it meant … Continue reading
How Nigeria Can Navigate the Current Economic Uncertainities
When an economy is distressed, exchange rates become volatile and countries rush to stem potential risk. What risks should countries in this scenario mitigate —and how? The reduction in oil price has brought exchange-rate risk back to the forefront in … Continue reading
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Tagged #EconomicGrowth, #Inequality, CBN, Commodity, Development Policy, Economic Policies, Finance, Governance, Macroeconomics, Nigeria, Oil Price, poverty, Risk Management
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Rebecca's thoughts on Development 