This confab should not be about creating sovereign ''Banana Republics'' in place of Nigeria. The outcry about independence by various ethnic groups in the country is gaining ground by the day due to this long-standing discontent. There is palpable fear... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/peterside/020305.html
Economically, a majority of sub-Saharan African countries still remain basket cases and non-starters in the new global economic village. ...It is still early to evaluate the net effect of mobile phones, Internet and productivity-enhancing software and... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/peterside/011604.html
To be fair, you can't initiate alliances within an industry through administrative fiat, hence most of the resulting mergers are marriages of convenience, and only time will show whether they would withstand the test. ... Beyond the mere fund-raising and... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/peterside/010206.html
The theme of this article is a famous phrase taken from one of the speeches of late US President John F Kennedy, who arguably is one of the most oft-quoted personalities in history. The proverb to me underscores what ought to be the prevailing mindset in... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/peterside/011211.html
Increasingly the world has begun to identify and come to terms with reasons why so many people in Africa have remained uncared for.... Just when you thought the mother of corrupt countries in the most underdeveloped region, was getting it right, we hear... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/peterside/011308.html
...returns have been bountiful, capitalization has been on the upswing, just as liquidity and transaction settlement time have improved tremendously. ...strong stimuli for more investor participation in the future, especially from Africans, nay Nigerians... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/peterside/011405.html
A defined-contribution pension plan such as the one obtainable in the US was recently introduced in Nigeria - if successful, it is capable of transforming both the capital market and the Nigerian economy at large with over N600bn ($4.5bn) projected to... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/peterside/010505.html
To many observers, it was a matter of time before the country hits this economic iceberg. Having successfully averted cataclysmic political predictions of 2015, the next major hurdle on the horizon of this era was navigating an impending recession. URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/peterside/010517.html
It is not often that vision or well articulated policy statements and ideas can be translated to actionable projects, especially in a frontier-market environment like Nigeria, talk less of a state. However in Rivers State, over the last 6 (six) years of... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/articles/2013/jun/062.html
If the EFCC is really an intended consequence of this administration, despite its political machinations, intrigues and antecedents which do not amount to much, then the serious work of rooting out vices in society such as poverty, unemployment, lack of... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/articles/2006/oct/312.html